Assistant to the Assistant to the Assistant.... all paid by you... the Taxpayer!

I saw this in the comments section of Michelle Malkin's website for the story, Crashergate, Desiree Rogers, and the Chicago Way: Land of no consequences.

I don't know if these numbers are correct, but if they are... well... this is just wrong.


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


Paid by Taxpayer money...
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. (DeputyChief 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 EventsCoordinator 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)

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 .

Shit Sandwich on Fine China

I have been trying to think of what I was going to write about the jackass at Ft. Hood..... well, today I read an article on ABC News and decided it was time.

I have my issues with Governmental Health Care, but I must say that the Insurance Coverage we have with Tricare is good. We buy Dental Insurance and it is also good. So far, my experiences have been good. Not Great, but I don't have any horror stories.

Now, with that said, it does not matter how good the coverage is..... if you don't have the Staff to back it up then it's just a Shit Sandwich on fine china. And by Staff I mean everyone from the Head of the Hospital to the people answering the phones in Central Appointments. There have been times when I have had to make phone calls and wait for the Physician I wanted to see, but as a whole, I have had very few problems.

But what's so sad is that I was NOT shocked to read the following statement in an article on ABC News.

One of Hasan's commanding officers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Lieutenant Colonel Melanie Guerrero, told investigators she had considered failing him as an intern but "decided to allow him to pass since he was going into psychiatry and would not be doing any real patient care."

And there, my friends, is the problem with Governmental Medicine. They need to fill a spot and even though he had all the red flags, their reasoning said "he's not going to do any real patient care" so lets just pass him.

And that's the standard of care for our Military and their dependents.

They are serving a shit sandwich, but putting it on fine china.

Folks, it's still a shit sandwich.