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Chelsea Clinton's Wedding: Your Tax Gift

The bill for the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Jewish Goldman Sachs crime syndicate banker, Marc Mezvinsky, is estimated at upwards of $5,000,000...and guess how much - YOU - the taxpayers, are paying for it? $2 million!

$2,000,000 apparently is being sucked from US Taxpayers as Secret Service costs for protecting former president Clinton and foreign heads of state, such as the presidents of France and Italy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who are among the 500 invited guests along with Barbara Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, and Clinton friend and donor Denise Rich who is the wife of convicted felon Marc Rich.

Marc Rich ( David Reich) received a presidential pardon from President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001. Rich was indicted for illegally making oil deals with Iran and for tax evasion.

WHERE DID THE WEDDING MONEY COME FROM?

It is not unusual for members of the diminishing upper middle class to drop $20,000 or $30,000 on a big wedding.  But for Chelsea Clinton - this large sum wouldn’t even cover the wedding dress or the flowers.  When country music star Keith Urban married actress Nicole Kidman in 2006, their wedding cost $250,000.  This large sum hardly counts as a celebrity wedding. When mega-millionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump married model Melania Knauss, the wedding bill was $1,000,000.  The marriages of Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie, Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren, and Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones pushed up the cost of celebrity marriages to $1.5 million. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes upped the ante to $2,000,000.  Now comes the politicians’s daughter as celebrity. 

According to the London Daily Mail, the total price tag of the Chelsea Clinton was about $5,000,000. Chelsea’s emerald-cut diamond engagement ring is rumoured to have cost $1 million and was commissioned for her.The wedding ceremony, which was co-officiated by Rabbi James Ponet, a Jewish chaplain at Yale, featured many Jewish traditions: the couple married under a chuppah or canopy; the groom wore a yarmulke or skull cap and tallis or prayer shawl; friends and family recited the Seven Blessings typically read at traditional Jewish weddings.

Before we attend to the poor political judgment of such an extravagant affair during times of economic distress, let us wonder aloud where a poor boy like Bill Clinton who became governor of Arkansas and President of the United States got such a fortune that he can blow $3,000,000 on a wedding.  The American people did not take up a collection to reward him for his service to them.

Where did Bill's money come from? Who was he really serving during his eight years in office?  How did Tony Blair and his wife, Cherrie, end up with an annual income of ten million pounds (approximately $15 million dollars) as soon as he left office? Who was Blair really serving?  These are not polite questions, and they are "infrequently" asked.  

$11,000 WEDDING CAKE

While Chelsea’s wedding guests eat a $11,000 wedding cake and admire $250,000 floral displays, Lisa Roberts in Ohio is struggling to raise contributions for her food pantry in order to feed 3,000 local people, whose financial independence was destroyed by investment bankers, job offshoring, and unaffordable wars. The Americans dependent on Lisa Roberts’ food pantry are living out of vans and cars. Those with a house roof still over their heads are packed in as many as 14 per household according to the Chillicothe Gazette in Ohio.  The Chilicothe Gazette reports that Lisa Roberts’ food pantry has “had to cut back to half rations per person in order to have something for everyone who needed it.”  Theresa DePugh stepped up to the challenge and had the starving Ohioans write messages on their food pantry paper plates to President Obama, who has just obtained another $33 billion to squander on a genocidal war in opium-rich Afghanistan that enriches the military/security complex and its shareholders.  

The Guardian (UK) reports that according to US government reports, one million American children go to bed hungry, while the Obama regime squanders hundreds of billions of dollars killing women and children in Afghanistan and elsewhere.  The Guardian’s reporting relies on a US government report from the US Department of Agriculture, which concludes that 50 million people in the US--one in six of the population--were unable to afford to buy sufficient food to stay healthy in 2008.  US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that he expected the number of hungry Americans to worsen when the survey for 2010 is released.  Today in the American Superpower, one of every six Americans is living on food stamps.

The Great American Superpower, which is wasting trillions of dollars in pursuit of world hegemony, has 22% of its population unemployed and almost 17% of its population dependent on welfare in order to stay alive.  The world has not witnessed such total failure of government since the final days of the Roman Empire. A handful of American oligarchs are becoming mega-billionaires while the rest of the country goes down the drain.  And the American sheeple remain acquiescent. 

CHELSEA'S EX-CON FATHER-IN-LAW

Chelsea's new husband, Marc Mezvinsky is the 32 year old son of former Iowa congressman and "convicted felon" Edward Mezvinsky and former NBC reporter and congresswoman Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky. Chelsea's new father-in-law was jailed in 2001 after pleading guilty to 31 counts of fraud and swindling friends and relatives out of millions in phony investments. Prosecutors called him ‘a one-man crime wave’. After six years in prison, Chelsea's father-in-law was released in 2008 but remains on parole. Divorced from Chelsea's mother-in-law, Marjorie, the relations between Chelsea's in-laws are said to be ‘cool’.

Despite being released from prison in April 2008 after serving five years in prison, Mezvinsky remains on federal probation and still owes almost $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.

THE MISSING WEDDING PHOTOS

The whole world couldn’t wait to see photos from Chelsea Clinton’s wedding to Marc Mezvinsky. Noticeably absent in the Clinton-sanctioned photographs were the groom’s Jewish parents, convicted felon Edward Mezvinsky and Marjorie Margolies, who are now divorced. Why? Here are some theories:

–The groom’s parents are private people who didn’t want their photographs released to the world. Although typically “private” people don’t run for political office and both of Mezvinsky’s parents served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Plus, his mother is a former on-camera news personality, so that also doesn’t mesh with a privacy theory.

–The Clintons didn’t want to be in widely distributed photographs with a convicted felon. Edward Mezvinsky was released from prison in 2008 after serving five years for mail, bank and wire fraud. Even so, among the photographs released could have been a photo of Marc with his parents and no member of the Clinton family. Or just of his mother, who fortunately has no criminal record, with the group.

–Chelsea and Marc decided which photographs to release and simply chose not to release any of the groom’s side of the family. Which would be strange and hints at complex family dynamics that doesn’t bode well for a newly married couple.

Why among the sanctioned release photographs is there no sign of the groom’s parents? Is Marc Mezvinsky who works for the Goldman Sachs crime syndicate "like father like son"?