People who just don't get it

I enjoy watching the news both to stay informed, though lately most of the news is rather depressing, and to try to understand what in the world the world, particularly the nattering and ruling class are thinking. Mind you, I'm not particularly convinced that they are thinking, today being a case in point.

It's silly in a way but here's what happened.

There was a news item about Michael Obama. She's on the cover of Vogue. While I don't know Mrs Obama I do know that she is a very accomplished women. Thus it is understandable that with the election of the first 'black' American, though, of course, Mr Obama isn't black, only his father was, but that's food for another observation, there would be interest in his wife. That part doesn't concern me though.

What did was the reporter's observation that Mrs Obama was a more typical woman in that she wore clothes that regular women could afford. In this matter she went on to observe that while Mrs Obama sometimes wore designer dresses costing several thousand dollars she often wore 'regular everyday outfits' such as a $400 outfit being shown.

Let me be clear here. I really don't have any concern over what Mrs Obama spends for her cloths. That is simply her affair and not mine, nor for that matter anyone else's.

What I am troubled by is the reporter. When did a $400 outfit become everyday ware for real people? In my house it's not and I'd give odds it's not in well over 95% of every house in this country. Does the nattering class not know this? Do they just not get it?

This raises the interesting question, do the affluent really have any clue about what the real world is like? With something like 95% of all wealth controlled by something like 5% of the population that is a very troubling question, particularly, if you believe as I do that they don't have a clue, nor for that matter, much by way of good intentions.

Apropos I note Senator Charles Schumer's remarks of yesterday that the American people don't really care about 'tiny cute little earmarks' in the pending stimulus package. His words, not mine. After all they only amount by some estimates to 5% of an $800 plus billion dollar spending package. By my arithmetic that's, wait for it, $40 billion dollars. More or less enough money to buy any one of several small pacific countries.

No, Virginia, they just don't get it.

Here's a thought. Let's not re-ellect them! Any of them! If it's an incumbent, just say no. Now this may throw out some good with the clueless but at least it will change the environment and perhaps then there can be real change to build an America where congress acts for the good of the country, the nattering class understands that there is a real world, and social justice is at least a consideration.