Do as I Say, Not as I Do, Part MMXII

"President Obama's own budget confesses that it would more than triple the national debt from $5.8 trillion at the end of 2008 to $18.6 trillion by 2020. 


Indeed, it would almost double the national debt in just four years from 2008, to $11.5 trillion in 2012. 
The budget also confesses that under President Obama's first three years, 2009-2011, the federal government will borrow over $4.2 trillion. As the Wall Street Journal reported last week, 
‘That is more than the entire accumulated national debt for the first 225 years of U.S. history.'"

"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

       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 in the midst of the Great Recession.

      ( Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. 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:   One-- paid for personally.                                                                                          

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


     In addition to the salaries shown, these servants of Ms Obama enjoy the same benefits as members of the national security and defense departments.  The bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU:

                               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 (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 - Lilyveld, 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 Project for the First Lady)
10:  $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn (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  Fitz, 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 - Jack son, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of  Correspondence for the First Lady)
                              

Total:    $1,591,200.00 in annual salaries    

                                          all paid for by                                                      
                                YOU CHUMPS!  


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.

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 ..

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