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Originally posted by Rudey
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As for how lavish parties are that is a different thing from this topic altogether. People make money and can spend it any way they want. Should people who work hard be looked down upon? Should people who are successful be ridiculed? Should they live in a 2 bedroom house and drive a Kia and shop at Old Navy and perhaps splurge on Olive Garden? Or perhaps they enjoy the same fundamental freedoms of this country as everyone else and have every right to spend as they please - especially when such spending helps our economy and they already pay the largest amounts of taxes.
-Rudey [/B]
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You have a point. If the story was just about parents who host expensive birthday parties, I'd say fine. Live and let live. But it's a sign of something bigger going on ,especially with this parent, when it's a sign of blatant disrespect.
Kathy O'Malley and Judy Markey, well respected talk radio women on WGN720, brought up a point. This is something not mentioned in the article. The mom called the newspaper with the idea for the story. The girl called into the radio show yesterday and she complained that the reporter twisted "facts". She went on to give a plug to a local designer who made her "courturier(sp?) dress" and was left out of the story in the paper. I'm guessing mom prepped her to give a statement as well as standing by the phone. Just because you have money doesn't mean you have class.