Reckless spending is apparently a family thing.

While her husband talked trade, Michelle Obama did what most women love to do — shop. The First Lady, who has quite a reputation as a fashionista and is known to send stock prices of clothing companies zooming when she slips into one of their dresses, ran up a bill of thousands on an assortment of Indian handicrafts and textiles.

While visiting the 25 stalls at the National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum in Pragati Maidan, she even stopped to woefully exclaim, ”I wish I had brought more money!”

The purchases didn’t stop till the purse was empty. In the visit that lasted over two hours, she delighted craftsmen with loads of Christmas shopping.

Actually, I don’t have a problem with the First Lady spending her own money. But it’s hypocritical for Obama to condemn spending money in Vegas, and to be demonizing the rich for wanting to spend their own money, while his wife literally runs out of money on a shopping spree.