Posted on 07/17/2008 7:19:36 AM PDT by Dutchgirl
Maybe...if you buy the sort of earrings the wife of a US Senator who makes a big salary because her husband got her boss a big, fat earmark would wear.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle, complained the government’s $600 economic stimulus check was only enough to buy “a pair of earrings” while stumping for her husband.
“You’re getting $600 - what can you do with that?” Mrs. Obama said in Pontiac, Michigan last week. “Not to be ungrateful or anything, but maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month. The short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good, and it may even feel good that first month when you get that check, and then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings.”
Kind of hard to campaign as the people who represent the little people when you’re talking about your $600 earrings and your husband is going about Iowa bemoaning the price of arugula.
All joking, and evidence of the Obama’s family complete lack of common sense, aside I actually agree with what Michelle Obama was getting at here. The rebate checks were a one-time thing. You spend them, and they’re gone along with any stimulus they may or may not have done for the economy.
If we want long term economic stimulus we need tax cuts, which would put more money in the pockets of Americans by letting them keep more of their paychecks every single pay day. The stimulus from that money would be robust and lengthy, though somehow I don’t think that’s quite what Michelle was getting at.
More evidence that the “ruling elite” are out of touch with the people who make the country work.
You do sound ungrateful because you are ungrateful and bitter towards the greatest country on earth.
Michelle...the gift that keeps on giving!
What, no bread? There’s pleny of cake.
I thought 600$ only paid for a car muffler.
What an angry, out of touch bitch. $600 is more than we spend for a month’s groceries.
What a elitist POS you are Michbelle.
Ah, cake. The food of the masses.
If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.
Okay, I admit that this is not really a Michigan-specific topic, but Mobama made this comment in Pontiac. Pontiac, for crying out loud! Unless times have really changed, Pontiac was a place where $600 could get you a sizeable amount of rocks. You just wouldn't be wearing them on your ears.
The ugliness of this lowlife speaks volumes to the character of the Democratic presidential nominee. Take off the con man’s shine and he is Michelle.
bye=buy
A pair of earrings? You could get a Glock for $600 ... and have enough left over for ammo.
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I bought a nice bottle of wine with my stimulus check. If my ears were pierced I may have gotten earrings.
I’ve bought my wife earrings before, but never spent $600.
This witch makes me miss Hillary.
I thought $600.00 in Detroit would buy a foreclosed home...?
At least she bought something with it like it was intended, instead of paying off bills or putting it into savings like most of us had to do.
$600 could buy you quite a bit.
heck, it’d prolly still buy you a car.
She really understands the plight of the little guy, huh? Somehow I doubt she shops at Target like she’s be claiming.
I’ve never spent $600 on jewelry in my life. I don’t know why, but I don’t care much for jewelry.
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