It is not the usual place you would find class envy, or "support" for minimum wagers over the rich and famous. Hate and bigotry do however combine to create strange psychological breakdowns in reason and logic.
The Freepers hate these shoes being worn by Michelle Obama.
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Why do they hate them? Simply because Michelle Obama is wearing them
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The idiot Rethug writes
Barack Obama enjoys living like a king, so why shouldn't Michelle Obama live like a queen?
The First Lady was photographed last night in Hawaii wearing $635 per pair designer shoes by Maison Martin Margiela.
The shoe style is called "Leather open toe flat pumps." It features a "thin nude leather strap across the top of the toe."
A woman lucky enough to have a job in this economy and working for the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour would have to work 88 hours (without taxes taken out) to make enough to pay for Michelle Obama's shoes. If she can get them on sale, they would only set her back $445 for 62 hours work.
The Obamas are staying at an $8.9 million estate for an estimated $4000 per night. To cover the Obama's ten night stay, the minimum wage worker would have to work two-and-a-half years (before taxes) to come up with the $40,000 Obama is reportedly laying out.
Obama has lectured Americans about how they can not expect to live their lives as indulgently as they have in the past. He has lectured businesses about their travel and pay. Yet Obama and his wife live like kings and queens.
The news media has yet to call him out on his extravagance when there is 10% unemployment with no sign of the employment picture improving this coming year.
As if Freepers have ever cared about the low paid or the unwaged. As if Freepers care about what shoes a low income worker can afford to buy. They do not have in their agenda a way of helping the poor or unwaged to buy even the $60 rip offs of these shoes. The last 8 years showed all Freepers cared about were the top 0.1%, never mind the top 1%.
The President is on a salary of $400,000 a year. $8,000 each and every week. I think from that salary, his wife can buy some expensive shoes every now and again. In fact every day if she wanted.
Given that the job is Head of State of the most powerful Country in the World, a power whose light was not only broken, but smashed by their guy, $400k is not an unreasonable recompense for placing you and your family in a glass bowl for the whole World to gawk at.
Freepers, so blinded with hate they whip themselves up in to a bit of old fashioned class war. Teabaggers for Marx.
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