Michelle's TWENTY House Servants

First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants

"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.

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 Miz Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:


1. $172,2000 - 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)


4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)


5. 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 - Lelyveld, 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. 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. 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. Tubman, Samantha (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. Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)


22. Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)



There has never been anyone in the White House at any time that 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, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President's own pocket.



Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom travelled aboard Air Force One to Europe.

Why is it that those passing out the entitlement mentality feel they like they are entitled to more?

Hell, compared to government subsidies to General Motors and to Wall Street bankers, this is peanuts.

But, as a poor devil trying to get by on a meager retirement income, I believe that peanuts, too, should be handled frugally.

On the other hand, there is not much point in the water company focusing on fixing the bathtub drips around town while the water main in busted and gushing tens of billions of gallons into the sewers.

As my daddy used to say, if you watch out for your pennies, the dollars will take care of themseleves.

Our problem is that our government has gotten so big and so out of line with it's enumerated repsonsibilities that no one watches out for our pennies. They write 1000 page bills they never read and when they run out of money, they just print more and people wonder what's wrong with this country.

Reagan was right and until we learn that lesson, it's not going to get better.

The First Lady's lavish spending at taxpayer expense is proof her husband cares nothing for taxpayers and doesn't understand the concept that our money belongs to us, not politicians and bureaucrats in DC. It's a symptom of the disease, and Obama's got the worst case of any person to hold that office, at least in my lifetime.