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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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.
HAHAHAhaha...
Give the guy a break. He’s mentally challenged.
I heard Biden fell into a big pot of escargot and it took many hours and lots of high technology to find him.
The Cloward–Piven strategy (in part). The idea the left has is to have the U.S. government go so far into debt that it is destroyed. This is why you have a White house that cost us 1.6 bn to run, all the money going to fund this and that. Once it’s gone, then they can have their utopia government with them in charge. God help us.
I bet the 50 cents was his tip to the staff.
Take it up with Jay-Z and Kanye.
The commies in France trying to fund the gov’t through porn rentals?
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.
Obama and Biden agitate class warfare by criticizing wealthy lifestyles. The real problem is the hypocracy.
The sorry SOB's had the audacity to add the 50 cents to the bill?
Biden's London stay
Biden's $459,388.65 Hotel Bill
Due to obvious security concerns, such contracts are not open to the competitive bidding normally required on government contracts. The accompanying document justifying the "sole source" contract notes that the vice president's group required "approximately 136 hotel rooms for 893 room nights." Based on these figures and the total contract price, each hotel room at the five star hotel cost the U.S. government about $500 per night.
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I posted the above on the other thread.
Freeper battlecry made this comment (post 28):
"My understanding is that when these people travel, we have to pick up the tab for the whole floor the bat$hit crazy dumba$$ is staying as well as the complete floors above and below. Regardless of whether anybody needs the rooms or not. They want a buffer and we pay for it."
I think he may be correct---136 rooms, but why "893 room nights"?
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