White House Salaries Revealed: It's Good to be an 'Assistant'

Yeah, like all the vacations Bush took and the fact he viewed his job as part time....

Where are the other people paid from? Axlerod and Obamas main man , who pays them?

Let me see Obama spent MILLIONs to receive a $400,000 year salary. Do you see anything wrong with this picture?

I know you're eluding to something here.... but it's pretty ridiculous. Quit acting like you love the country so much more than President Obama. He has dedicated his life to serving our country. Remember how he was a community organizer and everyone made fun of him for it? THAT'S REAL SACRIFICE! HE DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO HELPING PEOPLE AND MADE JACK $*1T DOING IT. What have YOU done for your community lately? That's what I thought.

Oh, and if you love your country, then go work for free. If you want to volunteer it for others, do it by example you hypocrite. Everyone in this administration gets paid exactly the same way everyone in the Dubya Bush administration did. And the Clinton administration, and the H. Dubya Bush administration, and the Reagan administration....

Are you serious!!! “All Government Workers Should work for free, because they love this country?” Should only millionaires work for the Government? Should only the wealthy be allowed to collect our garbage, teach our kids, patrol our streets or answer the phones in the White House? Hundreds of thousand of people work for the government and as much as they love this country they still need to pay their bills and put food on their tables.

Are you serious?, or are you just another Limbaugh like detractor criticizing the Obama Administration no matter how ridicules your argument sounds

Those government employees should be made to sacrifice some of their big
salaries and health care benefits and live like the rest of Americans who
"love" their country. Why are they so special that they don't have to give back???

We have enough government workers taking kick backs. If they were working for free the graft would be incredible. What we need is to get rid of the lobbyists and special interest groups. As to the person who has issue with what Obama spent on his campagain, amybe he should look at what Dick Cheney is getting from Halliburton and other companies that a profiting from the Iraq war.

As I said before, don't blame Obama; blame Congress, Reps and Dems. THEY set these salaries (along with their own!) before the current President takes office.

As to government employees working for free, GET REAL!!! Just because teachers love to teach, doctors love medicine, pastors love to preach, mechanics love autos --- should they work in their field for FREE???? I would assume those people LOVE this Country as much as most government employees, too.

Work for free?? These people deserve every penny they make as they are public servants that help keep that well oiled machine called liberty going. The rest of us get really cynical when we know what public employees make, yet none of us would ourselves in their positions. In my opinion the president is grossly underpaid, something is wrong when the cast of Friends makes more money than the leader of the free world....plus these folks are also raising families and have bills to pay, and we all know those figures may sound high, but if you live in areas like California for example, $80K before taxes doesnt' get you very far....just loosen up folks, and be thankful to public employees.

I am actually surprised that his salary is so low[HAH- that's still 33,333,341/3 /month].. INHO the congress should NOT get paid more than the LEAST of her citizens IOW Minimum Wage overtime is one thing BUT what the president earns in one month is in probably MOST cases MORE than the average employee earns in 6 months (I Said AVERAGE worker) NOT the CEOs who actually use their position to attempt to control the presidency because THEY have the money and the majority of citizens cannot fight them because the Corporate america has a history of tramplinhgg on the little guy.. look what happened woith Gasoline stations (with repair shops) the corporations of greedy OIL ba#tard# put the independents out of business by only selling to their CORPORATE owned Gasoline stations at best price and doubling even tripling what an independent would pay NOT to mention showing their BRANDED stations owned BY the OIL COPRP priority shipments, and holding off on the independent branded stations because the independants could only earn about 5 cents/gallon, the majority of what you pay at the pump is federal taxes, the federal tax way back when was 9/10ths of a penny per gallon, but the federal government is all about taxing everything anymore.. England does that, the US picked up on it and thought WOW I can rip off my cirizens, control the economy AND live high on the hog while the low life citizens live in squallor unless they pay me big kickbacks.. think about it it's ALL corruption EVERY aspect of the Government. the government leads you to believe that they are looking out for YOUR best interests.. BS!! they could not give a RATZ A$$ about we who pay their salaries anymore than corporate america gives a $hit about we the people who keep them in business.. if you don't support them they will squash you like a bug because MONEY TALKS and BS WALKS.

You act like the Bush administration worked for free. Fine something else to bitch about.

don't be dumb. he has to take care of his family just like everyone else.

Bush is no longer in office, and the discussion is about the present administration.

I am a democrat.

and I have absolutely no use for Bush.

but damn it stay on the story, please.

And yet as many teachers do......they survive on much less than $40,000.

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT, SENATORS AND CONGRESS ARE ALL GROSSLY OVERPAID, BUT GIVE THEM THEIR HIGH PRICE SALARIES AND TAKE AWAY ALL PERKS SUCH AS RETIREMENT, NOW THAT IS A JOKE. OH YES, GIVE THEM MEDICARE AND THEY CAN ALSO PAY FOR THEIR SUPLEMENT AND MEDS. THEY DON'T DESERVE THEIR INSURANCE PLANS.

$400K is reasonable? Let's see, (and this is for any president by the way)... he doesn't have to pay for gas, transportation, housing, meals, clothes, insurance, retirement, protection, etc. At his beckoned call he has Air Force One, Marine One, Camp David at his disposal,a fleet of limos and the perks go on and on. For this reason, I think $400K is just a little excessive.

Mr. Emanuel makes $172,000 and, Elizabeth N. Emanuel makes $38,000 Per Annum as a STAFF ASSISTANT...wife, ex wife daughter or just other nepotism type?

How do up like the change...how is that working out for you?

Let them eat cake!