The Obamas Feel Your Pain
Before taking Michelle Obama to task for her jet-setting and outlandishly lavish summer vacation, let’s take a moment to put it in some context, provided by none other than President Barack Obama. The First Family, you see, feels your pain, can relate to the plights and problems faced by millions of the working class across this great land.
How do we know this? Because Obama says it is so, according to this report from The Chicago Sun-Times:
He says he and first lady Michelle Obama took a hit like everybody else when the economy nearly collapsed, telling ABC that a college fund for daughters Malia and Sasha has gone “up and down” with the stock market.
Obama says the first couple is “not that far removed from what most Americans are going through.” He tells the network “it was just a few years ago that we had high credit card balances, we had two kids, thinking about college. We had our own retirement accounts, wondering if we were going to be able to get enough assets in there.”
These days, not so much, and worry over retirement accounts has been soothed by the calm and serenity of public beaches made private, pricey Costa del Sol resorts and ridiculously fancy eats.
To paraphrase Mel Brooks: It’s good to be the Queen.
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