Highfalutin’ Homeless…

McCain assures us that he is focused on the economy. McCain and his running mate have apparently forgotten that economic crisis equals frugality in spending and smart savings. Perhaps McCain should send Palin to a smart spending class and teach her how to focus on the economy.

$150,000 has been pilfered from the RNC account to cloth Palin and her family. Holy crap!!! I am a frugal person who would not spend over $20 on a pair of jeans; $150,000 would get me 7,500 pair of jeans. I would have jeans for 75 lifetimes. The $150,000 was spent since August, which is only three months. I could not spend that much money on clothes in my entire life. In fact, with my clothing budget at a max, I would take 150 years to spend that kind of money.

Apparently, discount stores are not suitable for the Palins, they have been shopping in the likes of Sak’s and Neiman Marcus. Admittedly, we certainly would lose respect for a candidate running about in a sweat suit but after all, she is the all-American soccer mom…wink wink.

One of the donor’s to the campaign said that due to the Palins modest means as well as the short notice of the nomination, he thinks it is reasonable to purchase a new wardrobe. However, let us not forget that Ms. Palin is currently holding a public office. One would assume that she currently had clothing to wear. She must have, it gets pretty cold up there in Alaska…you betcha!

Therefore, we are supposed to believe the fiscal idiot nominated for potential Vice President is going to help get our economy back in line. Evidently, Ms. Palin specializes in economics by feeding money back into the system on over priced clothing.

Alaskans’ should be mildly irritated on their own. Another article relates the travel expenses charged to the state for her children’s travel to some events they were not even invited to. The Palin children do not travel cheap either, nothing but luxury hotels for them. When I traveled with my folks, I was crammed into the back of a Toyota Celica with my siblings and slept on a pull out couch in a one-room hotel, and that was high style then.

Fear not, we have been assured that all of the clothing will be donated to charity after the campaign. They will deliver the clothes using the bridge I am selling them in two weeks. There are going to be some well-dressed homeless people out there folks. The money would be more appropriately dispersed if they were to find 300 people and give them each $500. The homeless could then purchase good meals for 25 days; I do not think pantsuits are high on their wish list. But hey, who said logic was important when running the U.S.?