Obama gives steak and Cabernet to Communist leader as 21.5% in Washington, DC are on food stamps

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1/20/11, "White House fetes China's president while country produces counterfeit goods," NY Post, Charles Hurt

"While we were toasting China's President Hu Jintao at the White House yesterday with steak and Cabernet, his nation's factories continued to pump out billions of dollars worth of counterfeit goods that were being sold right on the street in lower Manhattan and across the nation on the Internet....

The state dinner -- much anticipated by Hu, who was offended that he received only a luncheon while visiting former President George W. Bush in 2006 --

• was a celebrity-studded event befitting the head of the world's fastest-growing economic power.

Dignitaries and celebrities, including Jackie Chan, Barbra Streisand, designer Vera Wang, and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, dined on pear salad with goat cheese, lobster, rib-eye steak with double-stuffed potatoes, creamed spinach,

• and apple pie with vanilla ice cream."...

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• Reference: "Washington, D.C. leads the nation, with 21.5% of the population on food stamps."...12/21/10, "1 in 7 rely on food stamps," CNN/Money, Aaron Smith

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