I received the following and checked it on Snopes. a left leaning
organization, and the link explains just how true it is.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/firstlady.asp>
>
>
> LAURA BUSH HAD (1) STAFFER
>
> OBAMA'S LIBERAL SPENDING WIFE HAS (22) STAFFERS
>
> THE COST WILL BLOW YOUR MIND--SHE HAS NEVER HAD A JOB AND HERS WAS
> GIVEN TO HER SICKENING
MEDIA REFUSED TO RUN THIS
>
> She needs one to dress her.
> The First Present Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants
>
> 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.
> 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. $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 - 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. $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, 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. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
>
> 22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of
> Correspondence for the First Lady)
>
>
> Total: $1,510,000.00
> (1 million, five hundreds and ten thousand dollars ...per year salaries
> for
> the staff for the present first lady)
>
> 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, 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
> traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .
>
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>
>
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> Yeah, I know, The Canadian Free Press has to publish this because
> the
media is too scared they might be considered racist.
> Sorry America !
