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Laura Bush, bring out your best China before you go...

posted 1/9/2009 7:17:11 AM |

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With two weeks left in the White House, Yahoo (ABC NEWS) breaks a story that the Bush's have purchased a set of much needed China for the White House collection at a cost of $450,000.
Certainly this is the wrong time in my mind to have pulled such a stunt.

A link to the news story is >> HERE <<.

I'm running late for work this morning, but I did want to blog this article. I'll try to go back and do more research later... especially to see when other administrations have bought Chinaware, where did they get the funds and at what cost.

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poeticcougar	Jan 9 @ 7:38AM
	$485 000 worth of china? I'm sure she could have saved $480 000 by going to WalMart, afterall, it's not like Laura is going to get to eat off of those dishes anytime soon and what kind of place donates that? Wow.... unreal!

DaisyMae420	Jan 9 @ 8:22AM
	I feel cheap now. My plates came from the dollar tree and I paid...yep...$1.00 each for them. Of course they were not designed by MOI.......I wonder how much that breaks down per setting. "Private Foundation".....somehow I suspect we pay for it in the long run. Maybe I'll write to the White House and ask for the setting I paid for with my tax dollars! Maybe the Bush's should use their own money as a way to say thank you for the room and board over the past 8 years. Maybe the "recession" is over....and will they be American Made?

eastham	Jan 9 @ 9:21AM
	Gosh, do you think Kirsten Dunst will play her in the movie. (Heavy on the sarcasm here). Oh look she already did. "Let them eat cake," drawled the former librarian!!!

Kirkish	Jan 9 @ 9:45AM
	Although one article says the china was paid from a private fund, I'd be much more impressed if they used that $$$ to help someone out. "private funding" sounds like a poor excuse to me. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned they can all eat off paper plates.

maggiemae684	Jan 9 @ 10:07AM
	What I don't get is why she is buying the china now, as she leaves 'the house'....why not let the new lady of the manor choose it. Unless of course, Miss Laura is planning on taking it with her....

Tiramisu4u	Jan 9 @ 10:16AM
	This burns my butt!!! There are people suffering so bad they dont have plates to put food(if there WAS any) ON!! Children that go to school without proper coats for this horrendous weather.... People that are dying because they can't afford healthcare.... We could go on and on... And she thinks the White House needs another set of china.... Gets out slingshot with supply of steelies...takes aim at $450,000 set of #$%@(&^$%@ set of dishes.....*

chatillion	Jan 9 @ 10:24AM
	Royalty, politicians, diplomats and CEO's are out of touch with reality... they cannot concern themselves with the 'little people'

Kentuck	Jan 9 @ 11:36AM
	Hey lok on the bright side---she wanted the old set for herself. So she can say these are the plates we entertained on--they clobbered the Clintons for this same act. Then waht is a china set for the white house---enough to feed 100 or 200 people??? Then too, there could have been much broken plates--plate fight been bush and cheney and rove as who gets to screw who.

john49887	Jan 9 @ 11:47AM
	This photograph, by Ron Edmonds of the Associated Press, shows the George W. Bush State China Service that first lady Laura Bush unveiled today at the White House. "Lenox makes these special sets for the White House and I think maybe for some other heads of state from other countries," Bush told reporters. "But it's a really different process, and they're not available to anyone else . The second photograph, also taken today by Edmonds, shows the new Magnolia Residence China Service. The White House Historical Association paid $74,000 for 75 hand-painted place settings, according to the statement. Yep. Nothing is too good for Laura. Pardon me while I puke my FKN guts out!

havUheard	Jan 9 @ 11:47AM
	Well, they gotta have something nice to put all the fancy inaugural ball food on! I hope Laura thought to get some nice new white linens so the ladies have something to cover their designer gowns with while they eat top-chef prepared food at the ball. Meanwhile we commoners can sit at home in front of our 27 inch tv's & eat our sloppy joes off of paper plates while watching all the inaugural festivities.

tiggercat	Jan 9 @ 1:27PM
	just more legacy of unnecessay spending by the wasteful Bush's adminstration. It will be good riddance to them soon, but not soon enough

Peabianjay	Jan 9 @ 6:14PM
	But....but....I'm sure this helps the war on terror.

hoftner	Jan 9 @ 10:07PM
	^^

unionman154	Jan 9 @ 11:04PM
	Leave poor Laura alone. She's been punished enough by being married to an a$$hole.

bamastyle	Jan 11 @ 7:06AM
	Chat..I saw this on tv this wk also. What I understood is, the White House historical society will be footing this bill. It also showed a walk through the "china room". They were saying, traditionally, it is 2 term presidents that buy new china. If I remember correctly, the one with the eagle was purchased by Nancy Regan. It is a blantant "in your face" to make such a purchase with the economy in distress!

Loinlee_Sole	Jan 11 @ 7:17AM
	450,000$ will buy alot of chinette plates ......and they are sturdy too

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