: Michelle Obama has 26 Servants.

First lady home; criticism burns on

Suddenly, the popular first lady was being compared to Marie Antoinette and labeled a "material girl" sponging off taxpayers. ....the first lady does travel with Secret Service protection - at taxpayer expense, cost unannounced - and the expense of flying her military jet to Europe and back must have been considerable. Her entourage did book 60 rooms at one hotel where the average room price is about $660, and claimed more rooms elsewhere. And police did shut down a 100-meter section of Mediterranean beach for the Obamas">more .

"Let Them Eat Cake": A handful of oligarchs are becoming billionaires while the rest of the country goes down the drain by Paul Craig Roberts

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. more .

Sep 9, 2009