The redistribution of $1.4 billion each year
What can you buy for $1.4 billion a year? You can buy the most luxurious and costly royal presidency in history.
Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing,
flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to
the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks.
In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family.
Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that Obama
isn’t the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of
his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has
risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in.
Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4 billion spent on the Obama family last year is the “total cost of the presidency,” factoring the cost of the “biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever,” a 50 percent increase in the numbers of appointed czars and an Air Force One “running with the frequency of a scheduled air line.”
Perspective: $1.4 billion is equal to spending seven times Mitt Romney’s entire net-worth every year. If Romney had to pay for Barack and Michelle’s lifestyle this year, he would have been bankrupted by the third week in February.
Now, can we please get back to talking about the evil, freeloading rich people, who didn’t build anything and who need to “pay a little bit more.”
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” - Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Are you saying you would have rather spent that $1.4 BILLION on Willard ???
Your Willie does has some strange expensive tastes...
He may have even managed to spend more...
He does that that extremely large family...
18 kids on Spring Break...