Position has its privileges

She is paid nothing for her position, she has no specific role in government, but yet she has a staff. Not just a small staff, but a staff of over 20, with an annual salary of over $1.2 million.
Who is this person, and why is this much government money being spent? Her name is Michelle Obama, the President’s wife, a woman from the privileged inner circle of Chicago Politics. Her feeling of grandiose self worth is only over shadowed by that of her husband Barack.
With the present economic crisis, nobody has had the nerve to tell Mrs. Obama about the need to “scale back.” It just isn’t in her nature, and this will be no exception. Her entourage is in a constant state of evolution, but not once has it been scaled back.
This list was compiled by the Canada Free Press and explains the entourage, and what they make. Must be nice to have such a staff to help a woman with no direct job in government, but then again, her husband created jobs for some 32 “czars” with no real job descriptions either.

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)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
5. 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. 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. 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. 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. Bookey, Natalie (STAFF ASSISTANT)
22. Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652

The Wicked Witch of the Midwest loses her position

According the Chicago Tribune, Michelle Obama’s position at University of Chicago Medical Center, has been eliminated due to “budget cuts.”

One can’t help but to wonder why they eliminated that position. Was it because of the actual cut backs, or was it because Roland Burris the “new junior senator” of Illinois doesn’t have a wife to fit into Michelle’s position? Maybe, just maybe it was the fact that the position was created just for Obama’s wife to offer a vehicle to pay back Barack for his pork barrel that filtered it’s way to the University of Chicago?

Since Barack is no longer in a position to help them the position dried up! Just how does a position that paid $300,000 a year on a part time basis just dry up?

Of course it might have been a title only, but then we already know that Michelle Obama “works twice as hard as the average American, to get the same pay.”

After seeing what Bill Clinton’s first lady got herself into, one can only begin to guess the trouble that will be stirred by the new resident of the White House, or will she get a “real job?”

She will probably have to get at least another “part time” job to pay for those nasty bills for piano lessons and summer camp, not to mention the private school the girls attend at the price of $28,000 per year, but we all have these problems don’t we?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sat-uofc-restructuring-jan10,0,5270924.story