Okay, here goes....
Do I really want to bring this up?
Yes, I do...
Remember a couple weeks ago I blogged about how I thought
Michelle Obama was not in touch with the "average American?"
You remember, Michelle, whining back in Ohio...
"But there are still problems. As she has many times in the past, Mrs. Obama complains about the lasting burden of student loans dating from her days at Princeton and Harvard Law School. She talks about people who end up taking years and years, until middle age, to pay off their debts. “The salaries don’t keep up with the cost of paying off the debt, so you’re in your 40s, still paying off your debt at a time when you have to save for your kids,” she says.
“Barack and I were in that position,” she continues. “The only reason we’re not in that position is that Barack wrote two best-selling books… It was like Jack and his magic beans. But up until a few years ago, we were struggling to figure out how we would save for our kids.”
Poor, Michelle...woe is me.....
Oh, Michelle and Barack, your tax returns are in...
Check it out at National Review Online í here
It's pretty bad, isn't it?
$240,505 in 2000
$272,759 in 2001
$259,394 in 2002
$238,327 in 2003
$207,647 in 2004
$1,655,106 in 2005
$983,826 in 2006
"I know we're spending — I added it up for the first time — we spend between the two kids, on extracurriculars outside the classroom, we're spending about $10,000 a year on piano and dance and sports supplements and so on and so forth," she told the women of her own household expenses. "And summer programs. That's the other huge cost. Barack is saying, 'Whyyyyyy are we spending that?' And I'm saying, 'Do you know what summer camp costs?'"
I don't know how Michelle Obama sleeps at night.
I can't imagine having to toss and turn worrying over how she is going to pay the next extra-curricular activity bill.
Not on what she and Barack have pulled in over the last years....
H/T: KarenT
Rachel Lucas
