July 31, 2009
By MB Snow
There has been some discussion of Michelle Obama’s staff payroll compared to Laura Bush’s. Here are the results of my investigation.
Michelle Obama has 16 paid staff which cost the American taxpayers $1,256,700.
Laura Bush had 10 paid staff which cost the American taxpayers $764,900.
A difference of $491,800.
This was in August. Looks like the staff increased by 10 since then. So my guess is we’re probably looking at a $1,000,000 difference in salaries.
Sixteen staffers have "First Lady" in their title, which is the same number as the 2009 White House staff list.
Reading this, I was thinking, logically, “maybe that’s one thing Carter did right, having only a few staff people for Rosalynn the First Lady. So I googled it, and the first thing that came up (from 1977) was “Rosalynn Carter’s personal staff largest ever”-—21 people, at a taxpayer cost of $650,000. What would that be in today’s money-—closer to 1.4 million?
Reading this, I was thinking, logically, “maybe that’s one thing Carter did right, having only a few staff people for Rosalynn the First Lady. So I googled it, and the first thing that came up (from 1977) was “Rosalynn Carter’s personal staff largest ever”-—21 people, at a taxpayer cost of $650,000. What would that be in today’s money-—closer to 1.4 million?