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)
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?