Michelle Obama A Liberal Spender

Say it ain’t so…

They don’t call them Liberals for nothing! Take just about any democrat in office now and you’ll find they LOVE to spend tax payer dollars.

…So much for transparency or not spending a dime without having a way to pay it back.

From the disgraceful behavior of the current administration projects to deceive tax payers with the so called government transparency in spending project of the president through the most expensive website in the world that don’t work. I say that because a site that’s sole purpose is to report government spending and report on where the spending is going and the progress on how many jobs are “created or saved”, I hate that new phrase, in itself it’s deceptive.

  The website has been found to not only be incredibly inaccurate but it has been posting outright lies yet the administration is reporting they will not be making any correction but are still quoting numbers from the site to promote their so called success stories.

Even Saturday night live, the Colbert Show is making fun of the president’s plan to “save” money by spending more and how his recovery site shows jobs have been “created or saved”. 

The Chinese premier Wen Jiabao is even urging the U.S. to keep its deficit to an "appropriate size," (more like a warning) a clear message to the leader of the world's largest debtor nation from its largest creditor.

The recovery website can be found at: http://www.recovery.gov/

Can it be that the first lady Michele Obama has a lot more in common with her husband President Barack Hussein Obama’s policies and bad habits than anyone would care to believe.

Hold on a sec, I’m not talking about their personal life, I’m talking about their bad habits of liberal unchecked spending of tax payer dollars. Michele Obama to date much like her husband is outspending any of her predecessors to date in history!

By the way I wonder who’s paying for all the new cloths the first lady is now wearing. It looks like her wardrobe has become a lot pricier in the last few months.

I don’t think it would be too off base to say the president and first lady are more elitist than they or the mainstream will ever admit always turning the subject to point the finger at others instead.

Personally, I think she needs more staff!  Don't you?

Michele Obama's personal staff:
Written by 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.

Oh… 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 from her husband's  salary.   

Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:
Mamie Eisenhower :       1- paid for personally out of the 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. - (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 for Mrs. Obama)
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 - 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.- (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, Samanth - (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 =  $1,591,200 in annual salaries

There has never been anyone in the White House at any time that 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 travelled aboard Air Force One to Europe.

So what do you think?

Do you have an opinion or do you think the first lady should get a pass on spending almost 2 Million in tax payer dollars for her personal use in the few short months her husband has been in office. There are a few more years of this to go.

According to factcheck.com they try and tell you this article is all wrong but then when they quote the numbers it really isn’t. Although other first ladies average 14-16 assistant Michelle Obama has far surpassed that number, they give the reason that today compared to the 1960’s the first lady does a lot more and needs for more help.

I beg to differ and question what Michelle Obama has done at all requiring so many assistants. Laura Bush was an extremely active first lady with far more accomplishments and during her entire term as first lady spent less than Michelle Obama in the few months since she has taken that position.

Back to the topic of so called fact checking sites such as

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
http://www.factcheck.org/
http://www.factchecked.org/

I like to question the sources and their funding and then who funds the funders to get to the root of things and many of these sites do have to some degree political connections to democrats or the democrat party itself. It is unfortunate that these days we need to be so extremely wary of the press and various media news sources.

When I was growing up during my early childhood the media was far more objective and although may have had underlying political bias tried their best to keep that bias out of their stories reporting  just the facts.

Today and from what I can tell in the future journalism is projected only to get worse than it is today and that ain’t good.

No wonder American’s are deemed by foreign countries as the most ignorant and dumbest people on the planet. They all believe what they are told and are unaware of what goes on around them only getting news from the tabloids, rumors and have basically no knowledge of world history or events. Unfortunately I have to agree with them as of this date.

The future doesn’t look to bright in this area as our society becomes more enthralled with the hip-hop culture mentality, increased dependence on others including our own government

and as education standards drop so our children can score higher and real facts become skewed in the midst of special interest, media bias, political spin, early childhood school indoctrination tactics integrated into school curriculums, books and movies, arrogance and popularity rule over ethics and common sense and American idol happenings remain a higher priority over truth in politics and current events.

I am sad for the United States but still have hope, I only hope things will take a turn for the better in my lifetime.