The tea partiers are fond of pretending THEY are the REAL Americans. Hah! Not even close! No, the Real REAL Americans dined in New York Thursday night with President Obama. What? You say you weren't invited? Maybe that's because you couldn't afford the dinner: $35,800. Yes, these are the REAL Americans, the ones that politicians listen to. The REAL Americans are the ones who can afford to dine with the President and have the money to insure Congress hears them loud and clear. You don't. You are a worker, a consumer, and/or a taxpayer. Once you can no longer serve the capitalists, you will be labelled a slacker, a parasite, and irresponsible, and will be relegated to sleeping in your car and picking up aluminum cans alongside the highway until you die, quickly if you know what's good for you.
--Trakker
because you couldn't afford the dinner: $35,800
Maybe you could afford the dinner. It's the donation part that's prohibitive. For the fat cats, it's more about bragging rights than saying anything meaningful in the president's ear at the dinner.
If you could get into a place like The French Laundry, you would find the price higher but still good value. This we know 2nd-hand from people who have dined there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Laundry
Posted by: horsec | June 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM
For the fat cats, it's more about bragging rights than saying anything meaningful in the president's ear at the dinner.
But I'm sure the President has the names of all the wealthy donors and anything they ask of the White House will be given a high priority.
My wife would love The French Laundry. She values the artistic presentation of food as highly as the taste, therefore she loves the highly rated restaurants. I've found that the presentation of a bill totaling no more than the price of a cheap Blu-Ray player scores very high with me. Consequently we rarely dine in fancy restaurants (nor do we get to dine with Presidents).
Posted by: Trakker | June 25, 2011 at 02:39 PM