This is the stupidest thing I’ve heard in decades!
President Obama signed a $680 billion defense appropriations bill today that includes a Taliban reintegration provision for paying these terrorists to flip sides and become good guys overnight.
I can’t wait to hear how we plan to recoup the money from those who actually take the $$, spend it, and then decide to flip back to their old terrorist ways.
Oh gee, let me guess; we’ll make them sign a contract that says something to the effect “If you change your mind you have to give back the money…”
I’m sure there’s already a government agency being created to hire civil service workers who’ll travel to Afghanistan for the sole purpose of recouping the cash from those who took it under false pretenses…
Not only are we the fattest country on earth, but we’re now vying for the stupidest country on the planet as well…
OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
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
Michele Obama doesn’t receive a salary to serve as the First Lady and she isn’t required to perform any official duties. But she has an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request during a recession. Mary Lincoln was chastised for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War, and Mamie Eisenhower had to pay the salary for her personal secretary.
How things have changed. If you’re one of the Americans who’s out of work, had your salary cut, earning less than subsistence wages, or serving up fast food just to earn a few bucks to make ends meet, then you should be outraged at the benefits package for these servants of Ms. Michelle. They receive the same one as members of the National Security and Defense Departments, and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by the taxpayers:
1. $172,200 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Asst. to the President & Director of Policy & 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 Assist. to the President & Director of Communications for 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)
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 Hillary only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one, and prior to Mamie Eisenhower personal assistants came from the President’s own pocket.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” or Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe.
At this price, we can’t afford any more “non-paid” public servants.
