Medical Malpractice

Why do cons resent the fact Michelle Obama worked hard, became successful, and can now take nice trips?

According to the couple’s 2006 income tax return, her salary was $273,618 from the University of Chicago Hospitals, while her husband had a salary of $157,082 from the United States Senate. The total Obama income, however, was $991,296, which included $51,200 she earned as a member of the board of directors of TreeHouse Foods, and investments and royalties from his books. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-05-10-michelle-obama_N.htm

Public Comments

1. What does her previous income have to do with our paying for her current trips? Not a damn thing.
2. I am a conservative and I don't care. Stop pulling things out of your ass.
3. I resent the fact that he ran on mutual sacrifice, but Gaultier-clad Michelle and Barack are grabbing the goodies like post Katrina looters, probably because they know he'll be a one-term president.
4. Because she is a typical "Do as I say, not as I do" Liberal like her husband and Al Gore. The Gulf is good enough for us serfs, but she is above all us.
5. That trip was on the American peoples dime.Most Cops are ok.
6. If Michelle worked so hard then why wasn't her position continued after she left the hospital? Oh that's because her position was never necessary to the functioning of the hospital, only as a bribe to Senator Obama.
7. People resent Michelle due to comments like "I've never respected America until now" spoken after her hubby took office. Now she takes 40+ people with her to Spain in the middle of her husband's recession. she could have spent a vacation within our own country.
8. The money earned in 06 are not paying for these trips.
9. You are so right. http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1122691,CST-NWS-hosp23.article You must mean her sweetheart job as a patient dumping executive. The one where poor people were sent away from Univ of Chicago Center to substandard clinics.
10. We only resent paying for it! If she is so successful, why won't she pick up the bill? Didn't Obama say we had to make sacrifices, but they won't?
11. yeah take nice lavish trips on the tax payers dime. what were all you hypocrites saying about President Bush when he went on a working vacation in Texas
12. John Milton FTW! When taxpayers are paying for it, her previous income doesn't mean sh!t.
13. Michelle got the $273K job only because her husband was a US Senator. The University needed the earmarks. In reality, Michelle has utterly no accomplishments in her professional life at all.
14. We have to pay for her security and they are borrowing 42% of the funding for the federal government. How about cutting some fat, you butt heads! They made $5,500,000 last year, what did she do to earn it?
15. You got smoked with this one, bubba.
16. I believe people should be able to use their own funds and go where ever they please. She did not use her own funds to pay for the majority of expense on this trip. Once again, libbies think my money should belong to the government for the Political Class to use any way they please.
17. She tells me to sacrifice and vacation in the gulf's ailing economy, while jetting off to the south of Spain. You have to realize that that won't play well, with 10% unemployment.
18. They only feel comfortable with less Intelligent people to make them self's feel good.