KIM KARDASHIAN’S WEDDING PLANS TO HELP THE ECONOMY
(…its conspicuous consumption is bound to reduce unemployment as well)

Warren Buffet’s idea to tax the super-rich, and the President’s offer to bribe employers with a subsidy if they hire more people, are all well and good, but they hardly can compare to what one young woman’s wedding plans will do for the economy and unemployment. Well, in the New York area, anyway.

The plans to make Kim Kardashian’s wedding an over the top extravaganza of conspicuous consumption should be applauded by all. Look at it this way, this young reality-show princess’s excessive splurging for her big day will probably do more to goose our anemic economy and ease unemployment than anything the government might come up with.

Here’s why: Just think of all the collateral economic ripples that must result from putting on such an affair. First, picking and hiring a planner, and all its assistants. Then, wedding dress designers, complete with their crews of cutters, stitchers, embroiderers, etc. The caterers and their horde of assistants and services….bakers, cake makers, confectioners, vintners, food suppliers, chefs, cooks, servers, waiters. The riggers who have to set up any tents and lay out all the tables and chairs. The florists, and their chain of growers, to supply all the floral arrangements, not to mention the bands and musicians scattered around to keep the festivities going.

And let’s not forget the official photography crew to record it all. Then there’ll be the need for a small battalion of security types to make sure no uninvited crashers are allowed in (unlike the White House), and to keep the swarms of papparazzi at bay, and of course, a small army of valet car-parkers, to handle a flood of limos to fill up an entire parking lot at JFK airport. And of course, an equal number of law enforcement Blues, working overtime shifts, just to keep everything under control.

I’ve probably overlooked a bunch of other goods and services too numerous to mention here…but let’s not nitpick!

The point is the whole thing will have one humonguous economic ripple effect all around that area. In such dire economic times we should all therefore give this young woman a rousing cheer. She’s personally doing her bit to help America get back on its feet. It just goes to show how one person can really make a difference. So, let’s wish her well….and give her joy of it.

As for the President, with her as an example, he could issue an Executive Order to all brides-to-be for the next two years that they should do the same, allowing all those who spent more than ten thousand on their weddings to have a tax deduction. That is, the higher their wedding costs, the more generous would be the deduction, thereby converting what might otherwise be considered wasteful consumerism into a new national economic stimulus resource.

If that couldn’t help crank up our old economic machinery….nothing can.

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