Why do you need to officially get paid if everywhere you want to go, everything you want to wear, every party and date nite you want to do, every exotic place you want to see and take your whole damned friend clique with you is paid for by us? No, no official pay, just the unearned Nobel money from hubby, the high priced Chicago home they got from a contractor for next to nothing, royalties from books not even written by Barry, and whatever the hell else he and she are stealing while they occupy our White House.
Does there need to be an official task list for every First Lady to perform? What if a President is single? Should he or she take less pay because they don't have someone to fulfill the official duties of the First Lady? If Cindy McCain had ended up being First Lady, it wouldn't have bothered me one bit if she had decided to stay in AZ to run her business instead of having a social agenda as First Lady. Michelle Obama is taking advantage of the situation with her trips, parties, but she has her own definition of the word entitlement. I wouldn't be surprised if she has all the copper pipe yanked out of the White House walls for scrap money before she's out of there.