Healthcare Bill Cost Taxpayers $2970 in 60 Seconds Just by Being Signed

In the 60 seconds it took the President to sign the massive government takeover of healthcare into law, it has already cost taxpayers $2970.

The 20 pens (update: we just found out he used 22, two extra for archives), the President used are custom made from Cross, a Rhode Island based company. Specifically, Mr. Obama used a "Townsend Tango – Black Lacquer/Engraved Rhodium Plated Selectip Rolling Ball Pen" – but his were made custom bearing his signature.

Retailing at $135 a piece, these Presidential memorabilia are really symbols of self-indulgence and further examples of excessive government waste.

However this is not something new with the Obama administration, almost all Presidents have adopted this symbolic multiple-pen-signing approach.

I say, go all out. Get a 24kt. gold ring with your initials on them, melt some expensive imported wax, and punch-seal that thing like a true leader!