Ok. I’m not the first person to post this picture:
According to Buzzflash, that’s a $650 Louis Vuitton handbag. For a 6 year old. Just for reference purposes, I have been an adult *ahem* somewhat longer than Little Miss Palin has been alive, and I haven’t spent that much on handbags, total, in my lifetime. To get anywhere near that total, you’d have to add briefcases, backpacks (ranging from K-Mart cheapies to L.L. Bean), and a computer bag. Sure, I know people who would buy that kind of bag for a kid (well, a teenager anyway); I also know people who can barely afford the gas to get to work in the morning.
But according to Shaun at Kiko’s House, it’s even worse. The bag isn’t real, but a counterfeit! Buying a stupidly expensive handbag for a first grader is merely bad taste. After all, they can afford the real thing — particularly if the RNC is paying. Counterfeiting is a crime. Supporting it is theft of intellectual property. Oh, yeah, the money made from these bags may also support organized crime and terrorism. Way to be “America First” there.
In Closing: My what big borders you have; a creepy doctor’s office (thankfully, abandoned); cut Federal spending all you like, but you won’t touch the National Debt without letting the blood out of some sacred cows; the downside of public transit?; Agent Greenspan Is Just Shocked!!; ok ok fine split the baby and each of you can have half, or Fake Centrists taken to task; and sign of the economic times as much as the academic times, today’s kids less likely to graduate high school than their parents. Forgive me for not seeing this as a problem in any way; nobody needs a diploma to sack groceries or scrub floors or dozens of other tasks that are menial but necessary. Furthermore, no school administrator is able to wave a magic wand and make poor families able to do without the meager income brought in by a working (ex-)student.