Mrs. Obama: 22 assistants

Those annoying emails should stop.  Some people got in as members, though I have no idea how, before I shut off access from non members.  I will watch.

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Anyway, just an idea of where our problems come from.  This list is from the Canadian Free Press, not an American source:

Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:
Mamie Eisenhower : 0;    1 paid for personally out of President's salary
Jackie Kennedy: 1
Roseline Carter: 1
Barbara Bush: 1
Hilary Clinton: 3
Laura Bush: 1
Michele Obama: 22

 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:
 1. $172,200 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
 2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Dep Asst to President and Dir of Policy And Projects for  First Lady)
 3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Spec Asst to the President and WH Social Sec for Mrs. Obama)
 4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Spec Asst to President and Dir of Communications for First Lady)
 5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Spec Asst to President and Dep Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
 6. $90,000 - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
 7. $84,000 - Lel yveld, 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. (Dep Director of Scheduling & Events Coord 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. (Assoc Dir and Dep Press Secretary To The First Lady)
 16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Spec Asst 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 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Dep Assoc Dir of  Correspondence for the First Lady)
 (total = $1,591,200 in annual salaries)

Of course, either these people are no shows or they are working on other matters without review. You wonder what they are really doing.  A real journalist would look into this private army.