By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 23, 2016
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“The two floral dresses that first lady Michelle Obama sported in Cuba this week would not be affordable for the wide majority of individuals living in the repressive country. (Washington Beacon) “US Weekly recently spotlighted two outfits that Obama wore during appearances in Havana on Sunday and Monday that both, according to a Free Beacon analysis, cost more than 23 times the average annual state salary in Cuba recorded in 2014. “When the president and his family landed in Cuba Sunday, the first lady descended Air Force One wearing a sleeveless, rose-print dress made by designer Carolina Herrera. The dress is currently sold for $2,190 at Bergdorf Goodman, an upscale department store.”Make that an upscale department store where little Cuban girls will never be.
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“Later, on Monday evening, Obama dressed in a floral, knee-length dress from designer Naeem Khan to attend the state dinner at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba. A similar frock from Naeem Khan, a Barack Obama donor, available in the designer’s pre-fall 2016 collection costs $4,490. (Washington Beacon) “According to Trading Economics, a provider of historical economic data, the average monthly salary in Cuba was 584 pesos, or about $24, in 2014, based on statistics provided by the National Office of Statistics. That represented a significant increase in the average monthly salary over the previous year, which was 471 pesos ($20).”Even the Obama daughters are in on the dressing-like-royalty act. Both Malia and Sasha wore gowns costing American taxpayers $20,000 apiece at the State Dinner thrown at the White House last week for Canadian celeb Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. ‘The Wave’ performed by Obama and Castro in Cuba should give rise to the ‘Wave of the Poor’, a dismissive wave of the hand that symbolically dismisses all hypocritical Marxists exploiting the poor in order to maintain lives of legendary luxury.
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