Posted on 03/22/2013 8:11:23 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever
As it turns out, Vice President Joe Biden's London stay in February was not the most expensive part of his trip. A government document released on February 14, 2013 shows that the contract for the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand came in at $585,000.50....
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Why so much? Paired hookers for the entourage, again?
Still not enough for me to put him up with him for the night
Why not stay at the ambassador’s residence? I am assuming there are more than one bedroom there and do not require additional security.
Why so much? Paired hookers for the entourage, again?
Nope, the booze and hookers are off the books these days.
If security is such a big part of the cost involved, why not house him on a military base when he travels overseas?
and they wet their dresses over mitt romney’s tax returns . . .
Not fancy enough for our royalty.
Why not just give him a double barreled shotgun? That should take care of any security concerns.
Why so much? Because we have to support these people in the manner to which they have become accustomed. This is a mere pittance compared to the $1.4 billion it took to run the White House last year.
How many days could the White House public tours be open for the price of Biden’s exorbitant hotel bills in Paris and London?
Do we have a comparison? Do we have a one night bill from the Cheney era? I like to pile on that jerk as much as the next guy but i want to do it knowing all the facts.
How much more America? How much more indignity ya gonna suffer?
The ruling elite takes all for itself and leaves us with crumbs from the cake.
Gee. no wonder the trillion dollars off debt added this coming year. A 1/2 million $ spent for a one night hotel stay. What the sheets threaded with gold, 200% Egyptian cotton, caviar, and croissants? Come now DC get your head out of your backside. make for realistic expenses that are affordable.
Duh, I must be el stupido, Chris Christie got in trouble because his expenses were always lower than the other US Attorneys that travelled. he stayed at hotels well below the expenditure amount, because it was not his money being spent but taxpayers money.
Look at this example - patient must go to lower Michigan for a medical appointment, patient is on medicare and medicaid. Patient is allowed medical transportation reimbursement through the county. hotel cost cannot exceed $79.00 a day. meals allotted to $7.00 per meal per day. Parking and tolls. 69.00 at motel 8 with AAA discount and continental breakfast. McDonalds value menu for lunch or wendy’s dollar menu for lunch. Stop at meijer get fruit, lunch meat, bread and water. the cost never exceed what is allotted.
But DC does not know anything about a budget. These hotel costs are ludicrious, just as idiotic as the pos in the WH and the VP. Both are dumber than a box of rocks rolling down a hill collecting moss.
Instead of $585,000 AND 50c, I’d like to see them say something like “The income taxes for the entire town of XYZ were used to pay for Biden’s stay in Paris”. - or something that will personalize the loss. Stating mere numbers just glaze the eyes of taxpayers used to being reamed like this.
According to ABC News canceling public tours saves $74,000 per week.
SOB should overnight at the Ambassador’s residence (CMR) and his entourage at MSGQ; that’s why we have embassies for.
The ambassador might not have had 136 rooms.
That’s right - 136 rooms.
Slow Joe has a big posse.
I say we sequester his ass. Just put him on ice somewhere and trot him out only if Dear Leader ever assumes room temperature.
His wife looks very high maintenance.
One vacation for Michelle costs more than keeping the White House open for tours for the whole two terms.
One vacation for Michelle...
There should be a budget on how many vacations the President’s family should take. They have far exeeded the reasonable amount.
Did they ever check out PriceLine or Orbitz before they booked?
I just checked rates you can get a room /breakfast for two adults and a child for $550/night
1000x more? wow
Hope they paid in fake money printed by the Fed.
My recommendation?
We save money by NEVER building another fancy over-the-top building in DC. Let these puffed up jerks work in the same kind of buildings the rest of us work in... they're not royals or even impressive. For whatever reason, we're not electing the Jeffersons, Washingtons or Lincolns of our culture anymore... And we don't need to house the crap we are electing in beautiful buildings.
Maybe we need law requiring that all public servants have 5% of their travel costs deducted from their pay.
They make the laws, so it won’t happen.
Biden needs no security. He is such a light weight even Al-Quida wouldn’t waste their time.
Wonder what that odd 50 cents was for?
He learned from the best. Barry & Mooch.
Congress should set a Per Diem travel for official travel, and anything over that amount would come out of their own pocket. Also, travel by family members should be at the official’s expense. A spouse & children are not elected to represent America.
Let’s get back to the basics... OFFICIAL TRIPS ONLY.
Wonder what that odd 50 cents was for?
THE TIP. Biden’s a Democrat.
lol!
That doesn’t even include the cost of flying him to Europe, providing ground transportation etc. Too bad the lame stream media doesn’t pick up on this hypocrisy.
Outstanding thought process & response.
Maybe, just maybe, this would then open the eyes and enrage the LoVo’s to say “hey . . . wait a minute, this isn’t right!”
The annual cost of keeping the White House open for tours is $3,700,000, or about $10,000 per day.
So for the cost of this moron's hotel bill in Paris alone we could keep the White House open to the People for nearly 2 months.
He's part of them.
I understand that security issues prevent Biden from checking into a Motel 6, but don’t we have a U.S. embassy in Paris where Biden could have stayed for free?
The amount could be five hundred million dollars and no one would do anything about it. Hey, why not charge us two billion dollars, that sounds like a smaller number. He could fly in a few hundred of moochelle’s friends and order dinner flown in from Tahiti. There’s no SHAME in that!
$585K? That’s a lot of booze.
Or how about this. The White House Tours that Obama cancelled were estimated to cost $74,000 per week.
"White House Tours were cancelled for 8 weeks to pay for Biden's one night stay in Paris."
"White House Tours were cancelled for an additional 6 weeks to pay for Biden's one night stay in London."
I hope I live long enough to see some people in pictures like that of Mussolini.
It’s all jokes, but I find it appalling. TRICARE is being gutted due to this sequester CRAP, which means military folks and retirees will have to wait longer for health appts, or perhaps be denied medical treatment altogether.
Meanwhile, this JERK it put up on some regal hotel in Paris.
What the HELL is going on in this country anymore?? We’re being taken by the bottom feeders, and the top feeders ...why do we continue to tolerate it??
What are you going to do? Go out and shoot somebody?
Its to late. I was on the NC State Campus last week and the lib stickers were everywhere. Idiots on parade.
I object to your comment.
It’s racist.
I am NOT joking.
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