Journal tomhudson's Journal: What Palin's clothing expenses really add up to .... 20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r-04E42-4U
$150,000.00. in. one. month. (the October figures obviously aren't in yet
The Bureau of Labor Standards says the average family spends just under $1,900 per year on clothing and "services" - hair cuts, etc.
They would have to live to 79 to spend as much as Caribou Barbie spent in one month.
Over $4k on makeup and haircuts - that's a LOT of lipstick. Either that, or she's really a hairy Alaskan sasquatch, which would explain why the "haircuts" and "makeup" are so expensive
Certainly not your average "Hockey Mom"
Anyone want to see if she can say "goonie googoo"
Your wife's a Bigfoot, isn't she, Gus? Your wife is a Bigfoot, isn't she? That's why the bitch's moustache is so motherfuckin' thick... 'cause you shaved the bitch down and taught her to speak.
I know a motherfuckin' Bigfoot when I see one! Don't bring a Bigfoot into my home, Gus! With my children? The bitch can't talk! She can't walk a flight of steps! She's not trained well, Gus! She can *not* walk steps! I'll bet she climbs the fuck outta trees, though, don't she, Gus? Doesn't she? DOESN'T SHE?
But you got to not bring her around here - fuck her! And your motherfuckin' children? They're Bigfeet, too. They're half-Bigfoot, Gus, 'cause the motherfuckers is 6 years old and have Afros 17 inches long. They're little hairy motherfuckers, just like their mother. Look at the motherfuckers!
You know how I found out they was Bigfoot - when I realized your wife was a Bigfoot when I took your kids fishing last week. I put the motherfuckers in the boat, Gus, and I took the worm and I put it on the hooks. And they both sat there, and they put their poles down in the motherfuckin' boat, and slammed their faces in the water for 2 minutes! And I think, "What the fuck are these kids doin'?" Then they start moving their heads like this
[quickly shakes head back and forth]
and the motherfuckers come up with fish! I jumped back and said, "Can you believe this motherfuckin' shit?"
Then the kid took the fish out his mouth and looked at his brother and said, "Goonie-Goo-Goo." What the fuck is going on here? Normal kids don't do shit like that, Gus.
But I'm gonna tell you something, motherfucker. You can take your motherfuckin' hairy fat-ass wife moustache bitch out the fuck, you can go upstairs and get the motherfuckin' dog and scoop up the shit and take Eddie and get these mothafuckin' long Angela Davis afro-wearin' motherfuckin' kids of yours and put them in the motherfucking "Goonie-Goo-Goo"-mobile and get the fuck out! And if my wife don't like that, she can get the fuck out, too!
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3rd link on the page is te story as reported by the Associated Press.
BTW - the $150,000.00 is only the expenses reported for September - maybe October will have some more $$$.
In contrast, the DNC isn't paying for ANY clothes for Obama or Biden, or their families.
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BTW - the $150,000.00 is only the expenses reported for September
Holy crap. That is more than the combined income of my wife and I for a year (better than 50% more).
I wonder how much the state of Alaska was previously paying to keep her looking good? It would be interesting to know how moving from the Alaska cash reserves to the GOP cash machine changed her spending habits.
So is that what
Country First
Is all about? Driving the country first into bankruptcy, before using your own money?
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Don't forget that Alaska is what the republicans would normally call "socialist". Palin more than doubled the tax on oil production, and "spread around the wealth" by more than doubling the "rebate" to each taxpayer, from $900 to $2100. [bloomberg.com]
words conservatives can't define (Score:2)
Don't forget that Alaska is what the republicans would normally call "socialist".
They've reduce the word socialist into a buzzword, that they feel they have the to define (and redefine) at will. It is just one of a long list of words and phrases that they throw around without definition:
Hockey Mom
Are all words or word pairs that no longer have any meaning whatsoever when coming from a conservative because their definitions change by the hour.
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You can add "conversion" to that list - as in "conversion of funds to personal use"
The McCain-Feingold Act [gpo.gov] (yes, THAT McCain) doesn't allow clothing as an expense:
SEC. 313. NOTE: 2 USC 439a. USE OF CONTRIBUTED AMOUNTS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES.
(a) Permitted Uses. A contribution accepted by a candidate, and any other donation received by an individual as support for activities of the individual as a holder of Federal office, may be used by the candidate or individual
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Thank you for providing us with the _real_ reason on why Sarah Palin's clothes bill is an outrage. Being neither a celebrity nor a woman, I don't know if celebrity female politicians "need" such high-end clothing as some have suggested, but what is definitely outrageous is how this shopping spree broke McCain's stated ethic, and as you seem to be pointing out, actual law as well, if not in letter, at least in spirit.
That is the real problem here, not the actual size of the wardrobe. It's quite frustrating
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Thanks :-) The hypocrisy isn't just that clothing is a prohibited expense, but that John McCain himself sponsored this law, and if he wants to be president, he has to own up to "the buck stops here" - that decisions made by underlings are ultimately his responsibility. That they even *thought* this would be okay shows that he hasn't properly vetted his advisors, never mind his vice-presidential candidate. Palin was aware of it - they had to have her sizes if they were going to pick up stuff and have it alt
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Hahahahahaha. But Hillary's irrelevant. As an elitist, we expect her to spend lots of money on fine clothing. With Palin, we're all just shocked, shocked, I tell you, that K-Mart isn't good enough for her.
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Yep. Guess what? The DNC doesn't pay for candidates' wardrobes. Neither do they pay for Obama's suits (or Biden's for that matter). Or Michelle's dresses. The reason these expenses were paid by the RNC is that election contributions can't, by law, be used for personal items, but contributions to the party that aren't campaign contributions, can be funneled to pay for Palin's extreme makeover.
BTW - The expense stood out lik
Government filings and breaking the law (Score:2)
Turns out that the RNC may have, in fact, broken the law after all, specifically McCain's electoral reform law ... how mavericky.
Trimming the tree (Score:2)
Look, we can whine about what the packaging of political figures [nytimes.com] cost, or we can talk about real issues. Caribou Barbie is an idiot in the Dan Quayle class. Can you focus on that please?
Being vice president is, like the quotable Senator Quayle said, "indoor work with no heavy lifting," but the top of the ticket isn't looking that great actuarially [wikipedia.org]. Should the voters hit the booths, deviate unexpectedly from the polls and elect the Republican ticket, there is a real chance that this woman with a sub-80 IQ
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$1900? (Score:1)
The Bureau of Labor Standards says the average family spends just under $1,900 per year on clothing and "services" - hair cuts, etc.
Holy crap! Is the average family shopping at Walmart or lower? Haircuts for me at $15 / cut = $150 / year. My wife gets hers done for $50 / cut, $600 / year.
There's $750 without the kids, or any clothes. The twins (granted, I have twins so I'm getting about 1/3 more clothes than having a single since they can share everything) are going through clothes like they're disposa
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That is per "household unit", so it includes people who don't have kids, as well as granny who still wears the same floral print that she wore when she voted for Ike.
You'll certainly spend MORE when you have kids who are growing up, and going through school. By the same token, you'll spend less when you're empty nesters - or at least you'll have fewer bodies to clothe.
Of course, the way it works is an inverse ratio - the more bodies you have to clothe, the less $$$ you have to spend on clothing overall
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Quick question: How do you feel about the Estate tax?
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Its far too low. The average home price in my area (DC Metro) is well above the maximum for non-agricultural land transfers. Cost differential accounts for a lot of that change of course.
Yes, I'm living just a little above paycheck to paycheck.
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