Posted on 08/05/2010 9:14:10 AM PDT by kristinn
Yep and if she paid for the security with her own funds also
LOL!
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/your_tax_dollars_at_work_suppo.html
July 07, 2009
Your Tax Dollars at Work: Supporting Michelle Obama in the Manner
Ralph Alter
The figures are in. As required by Congress since 1995, salaries paid to staffers employed in the West Wing of the White House must be publicly reported. Most of you won’t be pleased to learn that your tax dollars are paying $1,448,500 annually to provide the First Lady, Michelle Obama, with the staff she feels she needs to execute her duties as FLOTUS.
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“Private Citizens” do not have duties...
{we PAY duties)
Exactly! Taxpayer money is funding her “vacations” so we ARE trying to mind our business. If she is on the public dime she has no private life while spending our money for her “vacation”. I rather see the obamas vacated from the WH.
FUBO
Silence, peasants! How darest thou question the Queen. Bow down, I say, bow down and beg forgiveness of her, or it’s off with your head.
SNLive would NEVER. Obamasons or fresh prince Obama playin B Ball at the WH does not match their political agenda.
But it would be funny.
Oh, okay. Uh...So what's this _private citizen_ doing spending _public money_ to support herself, her family and guests, and her Secret Service entourage???
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Have a great day!
She has jobs planting poisonous gardens and telling kids they are fat and visiting Oprah.
LOL! Yeah, it’s good to be Queen isn’t it?
Is the magnitude of this trip unprecedented? Have other FLOTUS’s done anything like this on this scale?
I can see a need to pay Hillary for a trip over there, to a certain degree; but the scale of this seems excessive. So the question is: was this scale of travel expenditure mixed with state business; by a FLOTUS been acceptable in the past?
I suspect the Royal Household just needs a good laugh!
Robert Gibbs, NOT listening to you at all, period.
Meanwhile... 479,000 Americans lost their jobs last week.
Bobby, we the taxpayers are paying a substantial amount of money for her vacation trips, and she has an office in the White House, with staff.
She is far removed from being a private citizen, Bubba.
Even if she did, which I am sure is not the case, there is still the issue of the Obama vulgar show of extravagant living when the campaign cry from Zero was that we all should "SPREAD THE WEALTH." So, maybe Obamas should open their million dollar home and let the poor families of Chicago vacation there in nice air conditioned comfort and luxury. But, oh, right...that did not apply to the Obamas or any other of your rich Democrat friends with the deep pockets, estates, private jets, yachts, etc.
Plus Mr. Gibbs forgets that being a First Lady comes is an extended public office.
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