Posted on 06/05/2012 4:20:02 AM PDT by IbJensen
Ronald Kessler reporting from Washington, D.C. — Last June, President Obama appointed Vice President Joe Biden to root out wasteful government spending. But behind the scenes, it’s a different matter.
Every Friday, Biden takes a helicopter designated as Marine Two from the vice president’s residence to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland and then hops on Air Force Two to fly back to his home in Delaware. At the end of the weekend, he returns on Air Force Two, usually a Boeing C-32.
During warm weather, Biden regularly returns to Andrews on the airplane on Saturdays to play golf at the Air Force base with President Obama. After the golf game, he flies back to Delaware and returns to Washington on the plane on Sunday evening — all at taxpayer expense.
The cost of flying Air Force Two is $22,000 an hour, so each half-hour trip to or from Delaware costs about $10,000. Each golf game costs taxpayers $20,000. At that rate, the annual cost to taxpayers of Biden’s weekend trips is well over $1 million.
In addition, the Secret Service rents more than 20 condominiums in the Wilmington, Del. area for agents who must accompany Biden when he returns to his home state.
Biden’s press office had no immediate comment.
“Biden leaves every Friday from Joint Base Andrews, so he gets lifts from the observatory via Marine Two to Andrews Air Force Base, takes off via Air Force Two, lands in Delaware, and stays the weekend and then comes back on Sunday nights,” says a Secret Service agent familiar with the trips.
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The galling problem, for me at least, is that lavish sums of monies will be expended for these two evil piles of human debris for the rest of their unnatural lives.
Fat pensions, perks, protection for them and their families for the rest of the unnatural lives.
Ruin a nation and be rewarded!
Amazingly that political elite is less than 1% of the population?
Because he's a "heartbeat away from the presidency."
*shiver!*
Are Veep Biden’s expenses a violation of “THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE?”
Absurd. Biden doesn't need more than a handful of agents.
The SS gets 10 rooms. Their hookers get the other 10. Make sense now?
“Biden Spends $1 Million Annually for Weekend Trips”
$1 million?
Annually?
Really?
Compared to Michelle and her junkets of pleasure, he’s a penny-pinching miser.
Good on ya, Joe!
What ever happened to “lunch bucket” joe and his amtrak treks? biden IS a warm bucket of spit.
A million for Biden to ‘ride in style’? It's the least the little people - little people out of work - struggling to make it, can offer one of their betters... the least.
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