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patrickl:

--- Quote from: shmokes on May 09, 2009, 03:03:43 pm ---Why does this person have palaces and 1000 acre estates and fly on private jets and live in the lap of luxury?  I mean, the fact that they serve some kind of purpose is no answer to that question.
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Why does Obama get this level of luxury?

patrickl:

--- Quote from: Grasshopper on May 09, 2009, 02:38:20 pm ---Anyway, I'm sort of acting as devil's advocate here because, on balance, I'm not really in favour of the Royal Family (although I don't feel very strongly about it).


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Doesn't matter if you feel it's ridiculous that people get handed their role by birth or whatever legitimate complaints people have against a monarchy. The point is, they do serve a purpose. Maybe more so in the Netherlands than in the UK though. On the other hand, to be honest I wouldn't even know what the current UK PM looks like. I'm pretty sure a visit from Charles (let alone the Queen) would have a lot more impact.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Grasshopper on May 09, 2009, 02:38:20 pm ---I'm not in favour of the Royal Family by any stretch. However, Patrick does have a valid point. The British Queen spends a lot of her time visiting obscure countries around the world purely for the purposes of generating goodwill.

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Is that before or after subjugating the native population and annexing the area as a colony?  :laugh2:

shmokes:

--- Quote from: patrickl on May 09, 2009, 04:02:36 pm ---
Why does Obama get this level of luxury?


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For the same reason that the CEO of a large corporation gets to live in luxury.  We want to attract good candidates.  It's by far the most important job in the country (and one of the most difficult).  But this is all a red herring anyway.  I never said that I approve of every presidential expense.  The best you can get out of this argument is a big two wrongs = a right.  And even then the differences between the two positions are so vast that you don't even get that.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on May 09, 2009, 04:24:12 pm ---We want to attract good candidates.  

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And yet we totally, completely, and entirely fail to attract good candidates.  Ever.

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