Did you know about the following?   This is yet another reason why all government and school salaries and contracts need to placed online – for every level of government.

From the Canada Free Press :
 First  Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants
 July 7, 2009
 
 Written  by Dr. Paul L. Williams
 
 ”In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to
 give back to this country that has given me so much,”
 she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big
 law firm for a career in public service, “… Michelle Obama
 
 No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First
 Lady and she 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.
 Just think,  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 from her husband’s salary.

 
Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:
Mamie Eisenhower : 1 paid for personally out of President’s salary
Jackie Kennedy: 1
Roseline Carter: 1
Barbara Bush: 1
Hilary Clinton: 3
Laura Bush: 1
Michele Obama: 22

 How things have changed! If you’re one of the tens of
 millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning
 less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart
 or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and
 then come to realize that the benefit package for these
 servants of Ms Michelle are the same as members of the
 national security and defense departments and the bill for
 these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU, John Q. Public:
Michele Obama’s personal staff:
 1. $172,200 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
 2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the
 President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
 3. $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the
 President and White House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)
 4. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to
 the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
 5. $100,000 – Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the
 President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
 6. $90,000 – Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
 7. $84,000 – Lel yveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
 8. $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
 9. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
 10. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
 11. $64,000 – Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
 12. $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events
 Coordinator For The First Lady)
 13. $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
 14. $57,500 – Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
 15. $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
 16. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
 17. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
 18. $43,000 – Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
 19. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
 20. $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
 21. $35,000 – Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
 22. $35,000 – Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of  Correspondence for the First Lady)
 (total = $1,591,200 in annual salaries)

 There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time
 who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties
 are the facilitation of the First Lady’s social life.
 One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.

 Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid
 Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny
 Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to  Europe .
 
 Copyright 2009 Canada Free Press
 canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652

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