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.
Paul Craig Roberts is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global
Research Articles by Paul Craig Roberts
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20389
NOTE: Also, while this is a good article, it might also be asked why Chelsea
Clinton chose to marry a HEDGE FUND MANAGER. Such a person would not exactly
be MY pick for a son-in-law. Hajja Romi
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