According to the U.S. media, Mrs. Obama went to Spanish coast in the company of her daughter Sasha and four dozens of friends
December 22nd, 2010Obama and the company visited attractions, ate seafood and enjoyed the view of the ocean at the closed beaches.
Of course, American taxpayers are outraged not only by that, but by the fact that the cost of protection and use of state aircraft was paid for out of their pockets (the first lady took the money from her husband for lunch and the hotel).
According to the media reports, Michelle’s travel was worth 250 thousand dollars from the U.S. Treasury, which slightly shocked respectable Americans.
Donald Trump came in second, who appeared in the rating as the richest American confessing in his presidential ambitions.
Trump, who belongs to the hundred richest people in the U.S., recently announced that his participation in the presidential elections would have been “funny”.
In connection with this BLTWY imagined what Washington would have looked like, if led by Trump. In particular, the site did not exclude that the beauty contests held by the billionaire, would have received presidential status.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was declared the richest American politician 2010. His bankroll is estimated at $ 18 billion.
But Donald Trump has nothing to be worried about, because Bloomberg has once again confirmed that he would not run for president in 2012.
The richest wedding of the year is the daughter’s wedding of Bill and Hillary Clinton – Chelsea.
Nobody could give an exact amount of spending, but even according to conservative estimates, it varies between 2 and 3 million dollars.
At least half a million earned the florist and 600 thousand dollars were spent on the glass, air-conditioned tents. The party completely overshadowed the wedding of another daughter of former U.S. President, Jenna Bush, which cost a total of 100 thousand dollars.
Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush entered the rating as the author of the bestseller. The memoirs of the 43rd U.S. president “Defining moment” became a bestseller. By the end of November, over 1.1 million copies of the book were sold.
Ex-owner of the popular Internet auction site eBay, Meg Whitman, was named the spender of the year, for this period she has spent 143 million dollars of her own money on the campaign trail in California.
But neither money nor the image of a successful business-woman provided her with a chair of the governor. She lost to Democratic candidate Jerry Brown, who succeeded Arnold Schwarzenegger.
As we can see Americans adore wasting money, but actually it concerns not only politician but also ordinary workers, e. g. people working at plants, engaged in metal forming, people working in hospitals and many others. Thus it is not the social layer, which determines the feature of wasting money but national feature.