What offends me -- and what I presume offends most people who are offended -- about the Obamas' seemingly frequent and lavish vacations is the sheer audacity of it all. President Obama pays lip service to the economic struggles of the rest of us and then sends his wife and kids off to Vail for a ski weekend while his court jester spends the weekend preening in the Keys.
‘If you’re a family trying to cut back, you might skip going out to dinner, or you might put off a vacation,’ [President Obama] said.
Hey buddy, has it not occurred to you that we're probably doing that already? We've been at this for years now -- the "financial crisis" started in 2007-2008; we've been dealing with skyrocketing gas prices, massive layoffs, and an unemployment rate hovering around 10% (and that's just the government's numbers, other sources estimate real unemployment in the 15-20% range) for years. And you think we should go to fewer restaurants. Noted.
How about you stop coming up with ways to waste our money on those things that are unnecessary, impractical, and insane? I bet if we stopped that, we would all have a bit more money in our bank accounts than what would be saved by us skipping the occasional restaurant. So please, go on your fancy-pants vacations -- I really don't care -- but please stop trying to pretend that you understand our plight when you so obviously have no idea about it.
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