Buy an Outfit or Buy a Home?

Just another reason that no working middle class family can relate to the McCains.
Last night at the Republican National Convention, Cindy McCain, Rich Princess...
clothed herself in...

Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000
Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch: $4,500
Three-carat diamond earrings: $280,000
Four-strand pearl necklace: $11,000–$25,000
Shoes, designer unknown: $600

Total: Between $299,100 and $313,100

That is why the run of the mill American will not be able to look eye to eye with her.
The amount of her outfit is the amount we paid for our 5 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1 car garage, on a half acre of land home in a upper middle class suburb.
For what she spent on clothes and accessories, she could out right buy MULTIPLE homes for hurricane Katrina victims that are still out of a home almost 3 years after the fact.