Enjoy the trip to Spain, Michelle

Unemployment figures are still at 9.5 percent, and that's only the reported figure. A conservative estimate would be at least 17 percent, including people not in the reported figures.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Obama heads off to Spain at an estimated cost of $375,000 to the taxpayers of this country. Of course, she took her daughters to France before this. I can only imagine how this looks to people who have been working hard at getting a job to support their family and have yet to get employment. People are losing their homes by the thousands, and off she goes into the wild blue yonder with little or no regard for the same people who were foolish enough to vote for her husband.

Enjoy the trip, Michelle, in two years you will be paying for your own. Please make it one way to anywhere.

Charles Brown

Naperville