Michelle O's Lavish Taxpayer Funded Vacation During Recessio

Open Thread: Michelle O's Lavish Taxpayer Funded Vacation During Recession

By NB Staff
Sat, 08/07/2010 - 11:24 ET

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: the First Lady is spending beaucoup bucks on lavish vacations while the country is mired in what her husband calls the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... liday.html

Michelle Obama today faced a fresh wave of attacks over her lavish break in Spain with 40 friends, which could easily cost U.S. taxpayers a staggering £50,000 a day. The First Lady has been lambasted for her extravagance at a time when the economy is still struggling. One blogger went so far as to brand her a modern-day Marie Antoinette. And her critics will be further annoyed when they learn that the president's wife had a Spanish beach closed off today so that she, her daughter and their entourage could go for a swim.

Thoughts?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-shepp ... -recession