…by grace of Pure, Dumb Luck of the United States and Expensive Purses Beyond the Seas, Queen, Defender of Obamania, Employer of Minions.
“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. 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.
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 Miz Michele are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:
The article then goes on to note the Michelle Obama staffers and what they make – including some one who is a “Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady”; ie, someone who drafts the e mail replies for someone else to swiftly edit and approve. Purses costing thousands of dollars, sneakers costing hundreds of dollars, a “night out” in New York City…this is the most crass lady to be in politics since Imelda Marcos. She’s sure to win the “Let ’em Eat Cake” award for 2009.
Mrs. Obama, we elected your husband President – we elected you nothing. Sit down, shut up and keep your hands out of the taxpayer’s wallet.
As an aside, please note that this story appears to have been broken by Canadian media – and there’s no way in heck that our MSM didn’t know about this. Bunch of cowards who dare not offend their Fearsome Leader.
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