[Peace-discuss] no body doesnt like saralie

[E. Wayne Johnson]

(from counterpunch.com)


  Let Them Eat Cake

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

(PC Roberts frequently appears in Max Keiser's videos, and is a former 
assistant Sec'y of the Treasury)

It is not unusual for members of the diminishing upper middle class to 
drop $20,000 or $30,000 on a big wedding. But for celebrities this large 
sum wouldn't cover the wedding dress or the flowers.

When country music star Keith Urban married actress Nicole Kidman in 
2006, their wedding cost $250,000. This large sum hardly counts as a 
celebrity wedding. When mega-millionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump 
married model Melania Knauss, the wedding bill was $1,000,000.

The marriages of Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie, Tiger Woods and 
Elin Nordegren, and Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones pushed up 
the cost of celebrity marriages to $1.5 million.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes upped the ante to $2,000,000.

Now comes the politicians's daughter as celebrity. According to news 
reports, Chelsea Clinton's wedding to investment banker Mark Mezvinsky 
on July 31 is costing papa Bill $3,000,000. According to the London 
Daily Mail, the total price tag will be about $5,000,000. The additional 
$2,000,000 apparently is being laid off on US Taxpayers as Secret 
Service costs for protecting former president Clinton and foreign heads 
of state, such as the presidents of France and Italy and former British 
Prime Minister Tony Blair, who are among the 500 invited guests along 
with Barbara Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, and 
Clinton friend and donor Denise Rich, wife of the Clinton-pardoned felon.

Before we attend to the poor political judgment of such an extravagant 
affair during times of economic distress, let us wonder aloud where a 
poor boy who became governor of Arkansas and president of the United 
States got such a fortune that he can blow $3,000,000 on a wedding.

The American people did not take up a collection to reward him for his 
service to them.
Where did the money come from? Who was he really serving during his 
eight years in office?

How did Tony Blair and his wife, Cherrie, end up with an annual income 
of ten million pounds (approximately $15 million dollars) as soon as he 
left office? Who was Blair really serving?

These are not polite questions, and they are infrequently asked.

While Chelsea's wedding guests eat a $11,000 wedding cake and admire 
$250,000 floral displays, Lisa Roberts in Ohio is struggling to raise 
contributions for her food pantry in order to feed 3,000 local people, 
whose financial independence was destroyed by investment bankers, job 
offshoring, and unaffordable wars. The Americans dependent on Lisa 
Roberts' food pantry are living out of vans and cars. Those with a house 
roof still over their heads are packed in as many as 14 per household 
according to the Chillicothe Gazette in Ohio.

The Chilicothe Gazette reports that Lisa Roberts' food pantry has "had 
to cut back to half rations per person in order to have something for 
everyone who needed it."

Theresa DePugh stepped up to the challenge and had the starving Ohioans 
write messages on their food pantry paper plates to President Obama, who 
has just obtained another $33 billion to squander on a pointless war in 
Afghanistan that serves no purpose whatsoever except the enrichment of 
the military/security complex and its shareholders.

The Guardian (UK) reports that according to US government reports, one 
million American children go to bed hungry, while the Obama regime 
squanders hundreds of billions of dollars killing women and children in 
Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The Guardian's reporting relies on a US government report from the US 
Department of Agriculture, which concludes that 50 million people in the 
US--one in six of the population--were unable to afford to buy 
sufficient food to stay healthy in 2008.

US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that he expected 
the number of hungry Americans to worsen when the survey for 2010 is 
released.

Today in the American Superpower, one of every six Americans is living 
on food stamps.
The Great American Superpower, which is wasting trillions of dollars in 
pursuit of world hegemony, has 22% of its population unemployed and 
almost 17% of its population dependent on welfare in order to stay alive.

The world has not witnessed such total failure of government since the 
final days of the Roman Empire. A handful of American oligarchs are 
becoming mega-billionaires while the rest of the country goes down the 
drain.

And the American sheeple remain acquiescent.

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