Warren Buffett’s secretary…a useful prop during Obama’s last (and I mean last ever!) State of the Union campaign speech…is supposedly the Democrat party’s poster girl for the burdens of an unfair tax code. From the way they’ve used her (and she truly has been a useful tool to Democrats), you’d think the poor girl was making $35K a year, without employer-provided healthcare benefits, while paying most of that paltry salary in unfair and over-burdensome taxes.
But facts are a funny thing (that tend to get in the way of the Liberal agenda). As it turns out, not only is Mr. Buffett in the 1% (at the very top of that group, btw), but, it appears that so is his poor, beleaguered secretary. According to Forbes, Buffet’s secretary, Debbie Bosanek, earns a not-too-shabby $200-500K salary.
Bosanek’s prominent role in Obama’s “fairness” campaign piqued my curiosity, and I imagine the curiosity of others. How much does her boss pay this downtrodden woman? So far, no one has volunteered this information.
We can get an approximate answer by consulting IRS data on tax rates by adjusted gross income, which would approximate her salary, assuming she does not have significant dividend, interest or capital-gains income (like her boss).
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We must wait for further details to learn how much more than $200,000 she earns. The tax tables tell us about average ranges. For all we know she earns closer to a half million each year, but that is pure speculation.
I have nothing against Debbie Bosanke earning a half million or even more. Buffet is a major player in the world economy. His secretary deserves good compensation. At her income, however, she is scarcely the symbol of injustice that Obama wishes her to project.
Poor little thing. Makes you wonder how she gets by. Reminds me of the time that Queen Mee-chelle lamented about her “daily struggles to get by:”
I have to say that my life now is not really that much different from many of yours. I wake up every morning wondering how on earth I am going to pull off that next minor miracle to get through the day. I know that everybody in this room is going through this. That is the dilemma women face today. Every woman that I know, regardless of race, education, income, background, political affiliation, is struggling to keep her head above water.
As I wrote back in 2008 when she uttered this bullshit, “This self-righteous bitch thinks it’s actually a minor miracle that she can get through her days of affluence and privilege. ” If Mee-chelle can barely get by on their millions of dollars per year in income and book royalties, imagine what type of major miracle Ms. Bosanek needs to get by on only a half million per year?
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She’s an executive administrative assistant. They haven’t called or classified people in her position secretaries for over 40 years. The salary and benefits are commensurate with the skills and responsibilities which are high. It’s a great and high paying job.
Buffet and this woman are just lefty liars. Fuck them.
“Every woman that I know, regardless of race, education, income, background, political affiliation, is struggling to keep her head above water.”
That’s such bullshit. You reap what you sow. There are some who suffer unfortunate circumstances and are hurting but there are plenty like me who have worked, saved and are doing just fine, despite not making $500K per year.
People won’t buy her sob story.
It’s a scam against all Americans, pure and simple.