[Syncro]

By Obama's second year in the U.S. Senate, in 2006, Michelle Obama's compensation from "public service" was approximately $375,000 a year -- more than triple the average salary for a lawyer in the United States with 20 years' experience.

(America to the Obamas: "You two have sacrificed enough. Please retire and kick back a little!")

[muawiyah]

Little does she know.

I'd like to get paid for writing books ~ I've certainly contributed enough chapters and clever soundbytes to lazybones like Ann to get a bit of the action.

[Syncro]

When government employees mobbed the state capitol in Wisconsin last year, the upside was: They got to bully people. The downside: Voters finally found out what these public servants were being paid.

     Their compensation included not only straight salary, but also lavish overtime benefits, pensions, health care plans, sick days and vacation time (most of which they spent protesting).

     The unions thought they could fight back against Gov. Scott Walker's tiny rollbacks without anyone finding out the details. Most people saw what public employees were getting and assumed it was a misprint.

[tacticalogic]

(America to the Obamas: "You two have sacrificed enough. Please retire and kick back a little!")

In Chicago, the other guy does the kicking back.

[tumblindice]

jazz hands

[Jack Hammer]

Will all those NOT reciving a check from a government entity somewhere please raise their hands...?

Anyone?

Anyone at all?

Somewhere Karl Marx is laughing his *ss off.

[Rummyfan]

She was hired by the University of Chicago Hospital as soon as her husband became a state senator. When he was elected to the U.S. Senate, her salary nearly tripled, from $121,910 to $316,962

And when MO left the position, it was eliminated.