Posted on 08/04/2009 9:07:27 PM PDT by RobinMasters
The first lady of the United States is not elected, has no constitutional duties and receives no salary, but that doesn't mean the position is without its privileges including a staff of 22 White House employees who make a combined nearly $1.5 million per year.
Various journalists have scoured the White House's annual report to Congress on the West Wing payroll and listed those names that serve as members First Lady Michelle Obama's staff. Combined, their salaries total $1,495,700.
By comparison, a similar examination of the 2008 payroll, printed in the Washington Post, shows First Lady Laura Bush tallied 17 staffers, who combined made roughly $1.28 million.
News of so many taxpayer-funded salaries attending the first lady which doesn't include the White House servant staff or the Secret Service detail assigned to the first family has prompted some commentators to question if so many staffers are necessary.
"[Michele Obama] doesn't perform any official duties. But this hasn't deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession," writes author Paul Williams in a July 7 editorial. "Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary. How things have changed!"
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Enormous is right. Her hips are about a mile wide. And what is up with her wearing her belts right under her bust? Are her hips so big that her waist, to the extent that she has one, is actually part of her chest?
Not only is she ugly, gangly and poorly-dressed, she has one of the strangest shapes I’ve ever seen.
My husband can’t stand the sight of her.....or him. I can’t stand the sight of him, either, but I can stand to look at her in the same sense that I would gawk at a train wreck.
$1.5 million just doesn’t seem like a lot of money any more.
Everytime I see this character from one of Redd Foxx’s show, it about tickles me to death! Thanks for a great laugh in such a bad situation!
can someone post the “awww jeez, not this sh-t again” guy?
LOL!
OK. That was mean. FLAG ME.
All that money spent on staff, and TOTUS can't afford a briefcase? Tacky . . . tacky
My ex voted for him & we get along usually. However we have the worst fights over 0 then we did when we were together. I am going to stick with Nero fiddled while Rome burned when I hear the moaning.
I’m sure there was a point to all of that, but I don’t see it.
Found an ‘ I hate Michelle’ thread, huh?
Good post.
Laura had 17 aids!!
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They need the trash the “aide” stuff and give them 5 interns tops
It’s getting to be as if they imagine they are a Queen - Hussein Junior included
Wonder if anyone found how many aide’s Hillary had.
I see no need for all those people either. The White House Staff does all the preparations for State Dinners and other functions at the WH.
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Hillary likely had five times the admitted number of slaves
She did grab the VP’s WH office suite
algore and Slick Willie faking friendship today after the “private” trip to NK
algore’s lame little publicity stunt cost American taxpayers billions of bucks
[Hillary likely had five times the admitted number of slaves]
Looks like it was easy to find the facts on Michelle and Laura. Yes I know about the VP office.
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If the WH claims Michelle has 22
Double it and you may be close
Michelle is the Czarina of Blabina
So was Hillary and she was more powerful in many insidious ways. Cold and mean hearted, hiring a LA P.I. to harass the women who spoke up about Bubba.
Secreting FBI files for her own gain. Vince Foster..., Rose Law firm, hundreds of things we know and many more we don’t.
Any pictures of her actually hugging Chelsea? She was and is cold. Some people have no feelings for others.
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Hillary is a strange one
Stand By Your Man - 60 Minutos - 1992
Lol, see, you couldn't even reply to all I said in comparison. How fast most people forget, now it's ‘pick on someones clothes’ instead of ‘did she have someone killed’.
Trivial Pursuit?
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Michelle has only been Czarina for just 6 months
She has plans beyond your wildest nightmares
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