Congratulations: White House Staffers Got a Raise Last Year, AND YOU DID NOT!!!

You, The People Got screwed this year: The White House released its annual salary report last week, and somehow they forgot to include you in the festivities!! Who knows, if Obama is still alive next year, perhaps there will also be something in it for you!! Most staffers who were there for more than one year got a "salary bump". A much bigger one than you did! The last time we checked White House salaries, we found that an astonishing 75% of continuing staffers got raises from 2009 to 2010, a huge number, given the fact that, according to compensation experts, most companies had skipped routine raises that year, in reaction to the economic crisis that the White House was busy failing to solve. This time around, from 2010 to 2011, the ratio is a little less dramatic. Of the 270 White House staffers who have been there for more than a year, 146 or 54% received well-deserved raises. The average salary increase was a mere 8%, but for staffers who got raises, the average increase was twice that. Unless I am mistaken, and I was when my relatives voted for Obama, despite the fact that he screwed the NOBEL Prize Committee out of its undeserved prize, while ratcheting the war in Afghanistan up a few notches, just to hear the bastards scream. But I digress: The raises in his staff were much bigger than the average white collar workers got! According to a survey conducted last year by the human resources consulting firm Mercer, most firms were reporting a 3% increase in base pay for executives, but White House workers did nearly three times as well! Overall, it should be noted that the White House salary budget contracted slightly, from $38.8 million to $37.1 million. How can Obama's staff even survive on that???