Budget matters

I was not a huge fan of so much being made of Governor Palin's wardrobe, but last night I came to a realization that made it a little more relevant.

Palin's wardrobe cost about $150,000, and she has been campaigning for about two months, let's say 60 days. 150,000 divided by 60 is $2,500--her daily wardrobe budget.

Divide that by 24 and that's $104.17--Sarah Palin's hourly wardrobe budget.


The clothes will be donated according to the campaign, but when some charities can feed people thanksgiving dinners for less than $2 and others can feed dozens of starving people in Africa for 20 bucks, I have trouble with that justification.

I wish we could focus on the issues, but with the economy as the main topic this fall, maybe this is an issue to consider.