Why should she need any staff?

Date 07-08-2009 20:58

this is a pay break down of Michelle Obama's staff
Why would she need one?

The president makes $400,000, and there is a big gap between that and the highest paid staffer -- $172,200.

The salaries for staffers in the Office of First Lady are also on the newest list. The highest paid is Chief of Staff Susan Sher, who gets the top $172,200. Here are the rest:

$140,000
Frye, Jocelyn C. (DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)

$113,000
Rogers, Desiree G. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY)

$102,000
Johnston, Camille Y. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
Winter, Melissa E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)

$90,000
Medina, David S. (DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)

$84,000
Lelyveld, Catherine M. (DIRECTOR AND PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)

$75,000
Starkey, Frances M. (DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)

$70,000
Sanders, Trooper (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)

$65,000
Burnough, Erinn J. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
Reinstein, Joseph B. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)

$62,000
Goodman, Jennifer R. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)

$60,000
Fitts, Alan O. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ADVANCE AND TRIP DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
Lewis, Dana M. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND PERSONAL AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)

$52,500
Mustaphi, Semonti M. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)

$50,000
Jarvis, Kristen E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR SCHEDULING AND TRAVELING AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)

$45,000
Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
Tubman, Samantha (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,SOCIAL OFFICE)

$40,000
Boswell, Joseph J. (EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)

$36,000
Armbruster, Sally M. (STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
Bookey, Natalie (STAFF ASSISTANT)
Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)

By Cactusthewelder (*****)

Date 07-08-2009 21:27

Not to mention all of the fringe benefits

By RioCampo (***)

Date 07-11-2009 00:41

Just how many people does it take to schedule a $300,000 plane ride on air force one? Looks like they are doing everything they can to decrease emissions. There is that old saying "Do as I say not as I do"

By BryonLewis (****)

Date 07-11-2009 11:06

I'm sure its not a new list. They've all had them. Next!!!

By michael kniolek (***)

Date 07-11-2009 13:20 Edited 07-11-2009 13:24

I stand corrected , laura Bush had the same budget for staff.........so now i say Why do they need staffs.
BRYON every time waste is pointed out you will always say well bush did it............right.........so my conclusion is Big O has changed nothing only raised the stakes.
And if what he is doing now is ok with you.....why wasnt bush ok .

By BryonLewis (****)

Date 07-11-2009 13:39

You started a subject and I simply stated a fact that all First Ladies have had staffs as well. They play an integral part in diplomacy. They have counterparts that they meet with and business to attend to.

Obama didn't start any frivolous wars. His era as president has got to be the hardest of all presidents. Especially since FDR. He inherited a country on the edge of decline and frivolous wars. There's an aftermath that was left from the last administration that has to be cleaned up. And whatever resources are needed to do that, I see no problem with this administration procuring.

America is on a downward spiral. There is no need to fool ourselves in thinking that we're as great as we once were. The American empire, like the British empire and all other empires, will fall. Britain lost everything and now they can turn back on themselves and take care of Britain instead of being "the greatest" nation on Earth. This gungho arrogance that America is the greatest is all BS. Its time to wake up and get this country back from the brink.

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By CWI555

Date 07-11-2009 14:21

Time to wake up alright. Unfortunetly when we wake up, the socialist will still be on the hill and the white house.
obama may not have started the frivolous wars, but he sure has trumped every single president before him on wasteful spending.

By BryonLewis (****)

Date 07-11-2009 14:35

And the wars didn't cost a dime, right. OK. I hope we are still on the Hill and White House, and more of them.

By CWI555

Date 07-11-2009 23:02

That dog won't hunt any more bryon. "And the wars didn't cost a dime, right. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/20/AR2009032001820.html?hpid=topnews

"Tax collections, meanwhile, would lag well behind spending, producing huge annual budget deficits that would force the nation to borrow nearly $9.3 trillion over the next decade -- $2.3 trillion more than the president predicted when he unveiled his budget request just one month ago. "

Thats as of this last March. It's gotten worse since then.
2.3 trillion dollar mistake.. hmmm. The entire cost of the Afgan/Iraq wars 864 billion through mid 2009.
2.3 trillion is just the amount obamanation has screwed up and not calculated for. Not to mention what he knowingly put in.
Therefore, the arguement that the wars have caused the problem doesn't wash any more. 864 billion over 8 years is a bit over 110 billion a year.
So in one fell swoop obamanation screws up and cost us just under 3 times what the entire cost of the wars are, and he's only just beginning. Remember, thats just a screw up, not the total cost.
Nope that just simply won't wash in the face of known facts.

By RioCampo (***)

Date 07-12-2009 02:08

That budget was filled with pet projects to return the favor of those who helped to elect our current administration. Heck lets spend a couple more trillion and say we have saved another 150,000 jobs. I want one of those jobs. I'll take the 13 million or so.

By js55

Date 07-12-2009 03:38

Yes Gerald.
And this coming from the Washington Post. Not exactly a haven for those right wing loons.
Sooo, the non partisan CBO reports, and the left wing Post prints, the disaster coming our way from the Schicklgruber Plan.
That'll sure kick the crap outa that American arrogance heh Bryon?

By js55

Date 07-12-2009 03:33 Edited 07-12-2009 03:43

Bryon,
Thats a lot of cliche's.
So here we go.
Yeah we got it, frivolous wars. Blah, blah blah. You gotta stay away from the Rosie O'Donut Blogs. :)
You just can't possibly believe all the crap you post.
FDR? Come on.
Schicklgruber didn't start wars? Not yet of course. The administration is young. But he sure frivolously used Afghanistan to convince morons he was tough geopolitically. And now look. He probably wouldn't have had the sack to start the thing but he also ain't got the sack to get out.
Why doesn't he just get out of there? Oh yeah, he can't. Bush didn't start the process for him.
Just what are we doing there? Can't be Bin Laden.
Building a Democracy? Oh, I get it. A Democracy in Iraq is frivolous. But in Afghanistan its ligit. That is twisted, not to mention a whole lot tougher, the idiot is fixin to find out. Maybe its part of his tough on drugs policy, beating up on all those Afghani heroin dealers. Or maybe, just maybe, he now knows what Bush knew. OH HEAVEN FORBID!!!!!

"His era as president has got to be the hardest of all presidents." Puhlease!! How old are you?

"{And whatever resources are needed} to do that, I see no problem with this administration procuring."
Seems we've heard this one before. Oh yeah, Germany after Versailles. Take a look at what side you're on now. The end justifies the means, right?

"There is no need to fool ourselves in thinking that we're as great as we once were. The American empire, like the British empire and all other empires, will fall."
First of all, look up the word empire. Influence, and leadership, even meddling in the affairs of, and occasionally screwing it up big time, is not empire. Rule is. Again. Stay away from Rosie blogs.
Second, nobody is fooling themselves. On the contrary that is the very point conservatives are making. It is the very reason we are pizzed. You aren't telling us what we don't know, you are advocating accelerating the process in the name of some bullsh*t coombayah internationalist defeatism.
And at the risk of sounding like gungho arrogance, name one country that is a super power at this time on the level of the US.
Come on. Name one. Let me get my snickers. I'll wait.
Now certainly it would be preferrable if some of our friends were greater powers. But that isn't what I read in your posts. No, your idea (and Schicklgrubers) is to do it by ripping us apart and driving this nation into poverty. Not much arrogance in Bangladesh these days. And not the route I, or most conservatives, would suggest.

One more thing:
"The American empire, like the British empire and all other empires, will fall."
"Its time to wake up and get this country back from the brink."
Can you reconcile these obviously opposed statements?
Wouldn't an attempt at getting us back from the brink in the face of such inevitable fall be in itself arrogance of the worst kind? Futile arrogance?