How many teachers or students or whomever could be sent over on such a trip for the cost of Shelly’s private holiday?
How many businesses could make payroll?
I'll take a guess that, with security, entourage, etc etc that the trip will cost in the millions. Or, far, far more than Mrs WBill and I (and most other couples) will ever accrue in a lifetime of saving for retirement.
For a junket, for her and the kids. Meanwhile, (and coincidentally) I'm wrestling with taking a vacation this summer. We really shouldn't, we can't afford it, but there's a big family get-together happening and I think it would be good for the kids (and the wife and me).
Easier not to dwell on such ironies, it just gets my BP up.