[QUOTE="bigblunt537"][QUOTE="Rhazakna"] The point wasn't to compare them in terms of cost, the point was to illustrate that this first lady is the most managed and maintained by her handlers. Oh yeah, Laura Bush had ten personal servants. Michelle has over double that.
Mcihelle's sixteen extra servants also costs over a million dollars more than the yearly cost of Laura Bush's handlers.
Rhazakna
Well that makes much more sense and it's a better comparison imo. Personally I didn't know the statistics about Laura compared to Michelle, but comparing someone from 40-60 ears ago is a bit silly if you ask me. Well honestly does it truly matter? It's not like shes using tax payer dollars to buy crack or something and regardless as I previously said it's not like we would've saw being spent on anything useful anyway.
The point, once again, was to compare how mico-managed she is compared to famous past first ladies. There's no reason why first ladies have to become exceedingly more handled by servants, especially considering Laura Bush had less than half the servants only two years prior. It's interesting how little you care about the misallocation of resources caused by the lavish and bullheaded spending of tax money. I guess it's perfectly acceptable for people belonging to the state class to consider taxpayer money as a personal piggy bank, because, hey, it's not like it was going to spent on anything important anyway! So we shouldn't care what our tax money goes to. It'll never go to anything important anyway, so the state should just collect as much as they want, and spend it on whatever. And if we don't like it, we can vote them out. See, there's justice in the end. If there is lavish and ridiculous government waste, either from state maintained programs, or the personal whims of politicians, it should be opposed and cut. What you do not do, is just throw up your hands and say it was always going to be wasted money anyway, so no one should care. This is why he idea of "the people" choosing leaders is absurd. If you just thought for a moment about the philosophical and political implications of what you said, you'd realize what an inane statement you made. Yet your vote is just as influential as someone who spent their whole life studying economics or political science.All you have to do to people like him is ask this question; Is it alright if I take $1000 out of your paycheck to help pay for Michelle Obama's lavish vacation?
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