It begs the question, Governor, what's wrong with this picture of your daughter?
If this is real, and I suspect it is given the recent $150,000 Extreme Makeover Alaska Edition, her little girl is carrying a $700 Louis Vuitton bag.
Friends, it is my humble opinion that little girls have NO BUSINESS WHATSOEVER carrying expensive purses like this. NONE. This is EXACTLY what's wrong with this country. A ridiculous, obsessive sense of entitlement and greed.
To me, there is no difference between this little girl carrying this bag and the homeowner who makes $60K a year, but lives in a $400K house that's being foreclosed on. Or the CEO who has just taken a $12Billion handout from the government without forfeiting one cent of his $40 Million salary.
It's the bigger, better, more epidemic that has swept this country over the past 30 years, and where has it gotten us? It has led us to the most wide-spread financial devastation this country has seen in 80 years.
I'll admit, I love a beautiful, well made fine leather bag just as much as the next girl. But am I EVER going to shell out $700 for one? No. Not in a million years, actually.
Someone gave me a very expensive Coach bag for Christmas one year, a long time ago. I never really liked the shape or color of it - it just wasn't "me". But I felt bad about taking it back because I didn't want to hurt the feelings of the person who gave it to me, so I just never carried it. I ended up giving it to a friend several years later.
Even despite my life-long fascination with fashion and beauty, I've still never really aspired to owning hyper-expensive bags, clothing or jewelry. On the one hand I hesitate here, and think that maybe I've somehow limited myself, sold myself short - by limiting the things I believe I "deserve" in this life, and not striving for more. Have I done myself a disservice by not cultivating that sense of entitlement? The characteristic that seems so intrinsic in highly successful people?
Maybe, but I doubt it.
It infuriates me that Palin is all about portraying herself as a typical hockey Mom, living just like everyone else, but her kid is carrying a $700 bag. I wonder what Joe Six-Pack thinks about that?!
1 comment:
Yep, she pretty much totally sucks - and I love me some designer bags. ;) I really hope that we don't have to see or hear from her ever again after Nov 4th. (Please oh please oh please..)
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