Posted on 06/16/2013 7:02:44 AM PDT by John Semmens
The First Family’s excursion to Africa is shaping up as the most expensive trip ever taken by an American president. As of now, the estimated cost is expected to range from $60 to $100 million. A big item of expense is the around-the-clock security. Not only will there be hundreds of Secret Service agents accompanying the First Family, there will also be a constant presence of military jets flying overhead. The bill easily dwarfs what it would’ve cost to provide extra security for the Libyan Ambassador who was killed by Islamic jihadis in Benghazi last September.
Press Secretary Jay Carney brushed aside criticism that the outlay is extravagant saying that “the extra precautions are the absolute minimum we feel is necessary. The President and his family are the most important people on the planet. It is our sacred obligation to make every effort deemed necessary to ensure their safety.”
Carney contended that “comparisons with the amounts not spent to protect Ambassador Stephens aren’t relevant. The Ambassador’s death, tragic as it was, barely caused a ripple in the context of global affairs. Events since last September have proved that—the President was reelected, his government still rules. The same certainly wouldn’t be the case if even the slightest harm were to befall President Obama or his family. The consequences would be catastrophic beyond measure.”
“On top of this, who would disagree that the malice directed toward the President has to be far greater than that which brought Ambassador Stephens down,” Carney continued. “Terrorists have had dozens of their friends and co-conspirators killed by order of President Obama. Is there any doubt that they would go to great lengths to get back at him in whatever way they could? We are confident that the American people are willing to pay whatever it costs to keep their President safe.”
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Obama’s one egocentric trip could pay a years’s salary for more than 1000 furloughed DOD employees.
"I feel your pain!"
Why all the security for one so loved by the world?
Maybe President You Didn’t Build That knows better than we the U.S. dollar’s actual value is trivial.
The arrogance of this administration has no boundaries. In my opinion he and his family are the least important person on the planet.
They can’t open our WH but they can afford to send the muslim grifter, the wildebeest and her calves to Africa. Where are all the good Zulu when you need them!
Pretty good. Only a micromillimeter away from the truth.
And he lucked into this. A job he works maybe 3 or 4 hours a week but pays him billions in vacation time. Not to mention a lifetime of benefits at our expense.
Is this a great country or what? And his ghetto and liberal starbucks constituents are truly too stupid to try to scratch the surface of this plague they've given us.
I need to become a commie politician.
Mookie wants to walk a leopard on a leash.
Then her team of seamstresses will make a pair of leopard pants for her.
Goodbye, leopards!
all the homeless peopel and peopel who have lsot their jobs shoudl meet at the airport with signs saying “Stay home, Feed US instead of Partying on our money overseas in foreign lands when your own land lies in ruins”
Worth every penny if it’s one way
Can I get an ‘Amen!’, Freepers?
It’s so nice that the phony who’s living in America’s White Hut is visiting the land of his birth and the land where his Sunni roots were planted.
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