Obama Deploys Retired Schoolteacher To Thwart Pay Czar Wrath

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BOSTON — Salary and general public approval at risk, President Barack Obama fought Sunday to save his executive compensation package. The $400,000 per annum deal, approved by Congress and then-President Bill Clinton in 1999, is now under the strict scrutiny of pay czar Kenneth Feinberg.

Ambitious Obama appointee Feinberg had months earlier stated that he had “broad and ’binding’ authority over executive compensation, including the ability to  ’claw back’ money already paid, and is weighing in on how and whether to use that power.” More recently, Feinberg has been subject to heavy criticism over his handling of “performance based” compensation reaching from Wall Street executives to mid-level banking managers.

This can be the only reason why retired schoolteacher from Charleston, MA, Rosemary Kverek, 70, rushed to Obama’s side with her rationalization of Presidential Compensation Math:

“People are upset because there’s so many problems . . .  But the problems came from the previous administration. So we’re blaming poor Obama, who’s working 36 hours a day … to solve these problems that he inherited.”

Now, here’s the math… Poor Obama indeed, and Feinberg can’t touch this pay logic (at least according to Rosemary Kverek). If you’ll suspend disbelief for bullet point #1, we’ll serve ya’ll some Obama supportin’ salary math-a-majigs:

1. The President works 36 hours per day.
2. The President makes $400,000 per year.
3. The President works 7 days per week.

At 36 hours per day, and 7 days a week, The President works 252 hours per week.

For the uninitiated, there are actually 168 hours in a standard week. [Source: Windows XP calculator; familiarity with clock, calendar]:

Under the new Presidential pay schedule, the Commander in Chief, will work a stressful 13,104 hours each year, and by formula, will receive an hourly wage ($30+/hr) comparable to that of a yoga instructor: