 let them drink tea  ok that s not what the quote attributed to marie antoinette goes but this is 21st century america from the new york post  a white house ldquo alice in wonderland rdquo costume ball mdash put on by johnny depp and hollywood director tim burton mdash proved to be a madasahatter idea that was never made public for fear of a political backlash during hard economic times according to a new tellall about ten years ago i remember a scandal involving tyco ceo dennis kozlowski throwing a huge romanstyle birthday party for his wife involving scantily clad servers and elaborate theming the problem with this particular 2 million party and how can you have a party for under 2 million was that half of it was paid for with company money that was one of the piece of evidence against kozlowski who was eventually given prison time for his other misdeeds the relevance of that side trip those tyco stockholders paid for dennis party the american taxpayers paid for the obama party had i owned tyco stock i may have been irritated at the thought of a company official blowing my cash on an ice sculpture of david as a taxpayer i m definitely annoyed that the man treats taxpayers like serfs on his estate perhaps i m jealous after all i can t go to hawaii or europe and take an entourage of people with me my family doesn t have the option of taking separate jets when my wife wants to leave for martha s vineyard a few hours before i want to go but at least for her trip to spain renting 60 rooms at a hotel michelle will pay at least some of the money  maybe she understands what it s like to be a victim of her husband s policies maybe not though i complain about paying for the expensive parties and vacations he takes and don t think we aren t paying for the jets to get them there and the secret service personnel to watch over them i would actually like him to take more vacation when he is on the golf course it s harder for him to wreck the american economy  