Monday, July 20, 2009

Michelle Obama - An Evil Health Care Exec?

Found this interesting tidbit via Ace of Spades. Seems that Obama is getting a bit testy about people having the nerve to challenge his over the top let's drive the country bankrupt while rationing health care plane. Of course the President did make one legitimate point - that "health insurance companies and their executives have reaped windfall profits from a broken system." So the next logical question is - when will he demand that his wife return the windfall salary she made as a health care executive?

True, to the best of my knbowledge, Michelle never worked for a health care insurance company, but she was an executive at the University Of Chicago Hospital where her salary seemed to be directly tied to the position her husband held in government. As Joshua Pundit points out:

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.



What is that saying, something about the goose and gander?

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