Thread: The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on US Taxpayers

Between the lavish heavily hyped Clinton wedding, the Obamas endless parties and vacations, under a cloud of national debt, it's starting to look like pre-Revolutionary France all over again

The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on US Taxpayers

By Daniel Greenfield
Friday, August 6, 2010

imageWhile millions of Americans cut back on what they can spend on their vacation, Michelle Obama is concluding her last vacation with a new vacation trip along with 40 guests to Spain billed at a cost of 300,000 dollars a day. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... liday.html

If Michelle Obama wants to go for a swim, an entire beach in Spain must be closed. Considering her busy working schedule http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/ ... ion=recent
of appearing on talk shows and then appearing on magazine covers, I think we can all agree that nine vacations is very modest. And the real tab gets much higher when you consider how many of the other unstated expenses are being picked up by “friendsâ€

The author is being kind. It's more like millions of Americans are cutting back on what they can eat. Vacations? What are they? Slabs of meat? Where? Seafood? Dare?