Posted on 10/05/2016 12:18:05 PM PDT by ColdOne
President Obama hired hundreds of additional public relations employees to sell his administration’s policies, at a total cost to taxpayers of nearly half a billion dollars a year, the government’s chief watchdog reported Wednesday.
Mr. Obama added some 667 PR staffers between 2008, the last full year under his predecessor, and 2011, when staffing levels peaked at 5,238 — a spike of 15 percent during those years. The number has since slipped, but there were still nearly 5,100 PR staffers in the administration in 2014, according to figures from the Government Accountability Office.
That doesn’t include the more than $100 million spent each year to hire private spinmeisters to supplement the government’s PR efforts. And yet more money — nearly $800 million in 2015 — is spent each year on contracts with outside
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“President Obama hired hundreds of additional public relations employees to sell his administration’s policies, at a total cost to taxpayers of nearly half a billion dollars a year...”
If the staff was illegally hired or the money illegally spent, Trump can order these fascist drones to repay the federal government (you and me, the taxpayers).
I assume these are public affairs staff in the various agencies. They field calls from the public and press, generate the endless stream of press releases announcing what agencies are doing, prepare annual reports, etc. I don’t know what the appropriate staffing level is; one would need to get down in the weeds, agency by agency, and see what the workload might be. If Obama dramatically increased staffing, I assume this was just one more effort to seed the bureaucracy with reliable leftists, but that said, the work itself is pretty straightforward.
Paul (blank check) Ryan is useless as a Speaker/Congressman.
>>Paul (blank check) Ryan is useless as a Speaker/Congressman.
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He is no better than O himself because Ryan is WILLINGLY compliant with his Globalist brothers.
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