It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by HangTheTraitors
Well, shopping instructions is surely [color=limegreen]better than what potential first lady Romney would be writing about... she would be writing about how HARD it is watching all her several paid nannys and servants take care of all her chores and parenting duties.
...AND writting about how HARD it is watching her servants do all the [color=limegreen]GROCERY SHOPPING for her!!
edit on 2-9-2012 by HangTheTraitors because: (no reason given)
Source
WASHINGTON -- For a woman with three houses and sixteen grandkids, Ann Romney doesn't have very much help around the house, according to her 2010 tax return.
IRS forms released Tuesday by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign show that despite reporting income of $21.7 million, the couple paid only $20,603 in taxable wages for household help in 2010. This figure was divided among four women: Rosania Costa ($4,808), Kelli Harrison ($8,667), Susan Moore ($2,238) and Valerie Cravens Anae ($4,890).
According to a number of Boston-based domestic staffing agencies, the salary range for a housekeeper is between $20 and $30 an hour, which adds up to an annual salary of $40,000 to $50,000 based on forty-hour weeks and two weeks of paid vacation a year.
After Barack Obama became an Illinois state legislator, his wife moved up as well, scoring a job as 'vice president of community relations' at the University Of Chicago Hospital for a very generous salary of $121,910. When Obama became a senator in 2005, her 'salary' leapfrogged to $$316,962 for the same job...and one of Senator Obama's first acts in office was to see to it that the hospital received over a million dollars of your tax dollars as an earmark.
Well, Michelle has moved on,and guess what...that vital job of hers,worth a salary of over $300 K has been quietly eliminated.
Originally posted by TFCJay
Shouldn't she address the fact that people don't have money to buy groceries first?
Originally posted by wylekat
Mrs. Obama needs to be offering help on making extra money, and THEN help shopping.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
reply to post by wylekat
Originally posted by wylekat
Mrs. Obama needs to be offering help on making extra money, and THEN help shopping.
When you get to be First Lady, then you can set the priorities as you see fit. Until then, you can criticize her for doing her "job".
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Seriously??? You all in the White House think grown up Americans want your instructions to us on how to grocery shop?? Who the heck do you think you are? Nanny state gone wild!
Originally posted by DontTreadOnMe
To me this smacks of the further dumbing-down in this country.
Not content to achieve the mind-control methods in public schools...now they attempt to benignly suggest that American citizens don't know how to eat or shop.
Originally posted by DontTreadOnMe
To me this smacks of the further dumbing-down in this country.
Not content to achieve the mind-control methods in public schools...now they attempt to benignly suggest that American citizens don't know how to eat or shop.
Please