A reminder of the greed and corruption that exists in our white house today ...

I hope this is not all true. 

First Lady Expenses

 

A repeat worth reading again as a reminder of the greed and corruption that exists in our white house today !!

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
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      Mamie Eisenhower: —  One -- paid for personally out of President's salary.

      Total number of Personal Staff Members paid by Tax Payers.

      Jackie Kennedy:  -------  One
      Rosaline Carter: -------- One
      Barbara Bush:      ------ One
      Hilary Clinton:    -------- Three
      Laura Bush:    ----------  One
      Michele Obama:  ------- Twenty-two

      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:
      One..              $172,200 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)

      Two..              $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)

      Three..            $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White  House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)

      Four..              $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of
                              Communications for the First Lady)

      Five..              $100,000 - Winter, Melissa (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to  the First Lady)

      Six..                $90,000  Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

      Seven..            $84,000 - Lilyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)

      Eight..            $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)

      Nine..              $70,000 - Sanders,  Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Project for the First Lady)

      Ten..                $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

      Eleven..          $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B.(Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

      Twelve..          $62,000 - Goodman,  Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)

      Thirteen..          $60,000  Fitz, Alan O.(Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)

      Fourteen..        $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)

      Fifteen..          $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)

      Sixteen..          $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)

      Seventeen..      $45,000 -  Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)

      Eighteen..        $43,000 - Tubman, Samantha a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)

      Nineteen..        $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

      Twenty..          $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)

      Twenty-One..  $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)

      Twenty-Two..  $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of  Correspondence for the First Lady)

      Total              $1,591,200 in annual salaries - all for someone we did not vote for and apparently have no control over.

      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.  (I'm wondering why there are no guidelines or restraints for this and other activities concerning our government officials and their kin.)

      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<http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652 > 
      Yes, I know, The Canadian Free Press had to publish this, perhaps because America no longer has a free press and the USA media is too scared that they might be considered racist or suffer at the hands of Obama.

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