So, are we getting used to the change yet?
 
 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.
 
 Just think, Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for
 the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhowe 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 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 a (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 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.
 
 Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49,
 and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air
 Force One to Europe .
 
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 Yes, I know, The Canadian Free Press had to publish this perhaps
 because America no longer has a free press and the USA media is too scared
 that they might be considered racist or suffer at the hands of Obama.
 
 Sorry America !