SEABREEZE 1957
My 401K is now a 201K
I read this yesterday & was appalled at the excessive number of staff that Michelle Obama has.
To be fair - I cannot find credible staff numbers for previous administrations, but 22 staffers for the first lady seems like overkill. Our taxpayer dollars hard at work.......
First Lady requires more than twenty attendants
Here's a link to the White House website with a list of all of the WH staff.
The White House - Blog Post - Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff
To be fair - I cannot find credible staff numbers for previous administrations, but 22 staffers for the first lady seems like overkill. Our taxpayer dollars hard at work.......
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 Michele 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)
First Lady requires more than twenty attendants
Here's a link to the White House website with a list of all of the WH staff.
The White House - Blog Post - Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff