Is Michelle Finally Proud?

Before the 2008 election, there was video everywhere showing Michelle Obama bashing the USA, and then admitting that she “For the first time in my life, I am proud of my country.” I bet she is proud, now. She gets to travel Europe, shop in France and London, sport $500 shoes and expensive $3,000 handbags…while even our own local DNC members bashed Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin for wearing expensive clothes. The double standard never surprises me, only the way the media and party loyalists will completely dismiss and rapidly change the subject whenever their candidate behaves in a ‘fashion’ (pardon the pun) that is exactly what they were critical of before…I think it may be called silent hypocrisy.

Mrs. Obama is surely proud of her private staff, not counting security, of 22 members earning a combined income of $1.5 million per year. (That is just incomes…their actual expenses could be multi-millions of dollars…who knows?). She was never elected…why are tax-payers paying ANY of this, short of Secret Service? In the middle of a huge recession, with Americans suffering, the 1st Lady is setting a fine example with fancy shopping trips, servants, and staffers catering to her every wish. Her top staffer earns $175k per year…are you kidding me?

No, it is not a joke:

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/07/06/what-michelle-obamas-staffers-earn/

Actually, yes it is a joke…on the tax payers.

I suppose when you are dealing with TRILLIONS of dollars in printed, fiat currency…who the heck cares? Why should she care, it isn’t HER money. Yes, the Obama’s are just like you and me, regular people who care about others…except tax payers…especially the evil tax payer who sends money to Washington DC quarterly, so politicians can spend it on ACORN and Unions, frog studies, and greener golf carts. The American tax payer is being treated worse than the new guy in the prison shower, while the First Lady racks up millions of dollars in unnecessary spending.

It has been told that Abe Lincoln’s wife was thoroughly chastised for buying a few pieces of China for the White House dining room, and Mamie Eisenhower had to pay out of her own pocket for her personal secretary. Now we have tax-payer funded shopping trips in Paris and London…we’re circling the drain, folks.

ADDER: More hypocrisy from the left.

Remember when Congress feigned all that ‘outrage’ over the industry executives flying around in corporate jets? News agencies made claims like, “While their companies are sinking, the corporate fat cats are flying in luxury…” Weird, when the country is sinking, nobody cares about the tax-payer money the Obama’s spent on their multitude of vacations…

Example: http://blogs.wsj.com/autoshow/2008/11/19/congress-members-criticize-auto-executives-corporate-jet-travel/

Where is the lap-dog media when this story appears? http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_19/news/37552-1.html

I guess, for many Americans, as long as it is Tax Payer money, it isn’t really money.