Chicago Escorts: Blagojevich clothing costs tell sad story

Let’s stipulate: Buying fantastically expensive clothes you can’t afford isn’t a crime. Such extravagance may be connected to various moral violations (greed, jealousy, vanity, coveting thy neighbor’s Prada), and the federal prosecutors are seeking to link it to a crime.
But if dropping sinful sums on clothes were in itself criminal, all those “Sex and the City” babes, and a lot of real people like them, would be in orange jumpsuits.
Still, there is a unique social stigma and a moral taint to maxing out your credit cards on clothes.
It’s one thing to overspend on a liver transplant for your wife or a college degree for your kid. Overspending on clothes, however, is in the devil’s basement of the moral hierarchy, only slightly above squandering your dough on poker, drugs and escort services.

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