"LET THEM EAT CAKE"

During the end of the reign of Marie Antoinette in France, the elitist ruling class had all the money and the rest of the subjects - an apt term for those being "ruled" - had nothing. At one point an advisor happened to mention that these subjects were running out of bread to eat and the queen said "let them eat cake". As if that would have been an appropriate alternative.

We in the United States of America some 120 years or so later are experiencing this very same situation. The leader of the current ruling regime, Barrack Hussein Obama and his wife - who has a 21-person staff where all other First Ladies have had a staff of five or less - have just returned from separate vacations. He spent his birthday weekend in Martha's Vineyard, you know, the typical American vacation spot, among other places, while his wife, one daughter and a 60-70 person accompanying entourage spent a week in Costa del Sol in Spain. Another typical American vacation spot.

All this, in itself, isn't a bad thing. A President needs a vacation more than the rest of the working class with all of its pressures. His wife is also entitled to a little respite occasionally as well. But to use two 767 jet planes paid for by the taxpayers, one carrying the First Lady, her daughter and 60 to 70 others across the Atlantic Ocean to a location considered to by the swankiest of the swanky and with a crime rate to rival Detroit's, all at the expense of us in a time where the unemployment rate is at 9.6%, the national debt has climbed to $14trillion and the deficit is amounting to $500million per day, is atrocious! This coming from a newly-elected President upon inauguration told the American people that we all needed to make sacrifices in order to turn things around. He promised hardship and belt-tightening. Boy did he deliver on that promise!

I guess he doesn't included himself and his in "WE". That's nice to know.