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$1.5M Hotel Bill for President Obama's One-Day Visit to Brussels
Weekly Standard ^ | APR 4, 2014 | JERYL BIER

Posted on 04/04/2014 9:24:22 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey

In late March, President Obama took a week-long trip through Europe which included a stop of less than 24 hours in Brussels, Belgium for meetings with the European Union and NATO. The president stayed at The Hotel, a twenty-seven story hotel in the center of the city. The estimated cost for the president's stay, including about two weeks for an advance team, was $1,522,646.36.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: extravagant; kingofthedeficit; obama; outragous
Spending your money in mine in the quest for Living It Up on Our Dime




1 posted on 04/04/2014 9:24:22 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey

Makes me so proud to be an American.../s


2 posted on 04/04/2014 9:30:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (For your psycho gunman, a military base is basically a grade-school in uniform. - Mark Steyn)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I went to the hotel’s website and they charge $1 per lie told,

.....so the bill seems about right.


3 posted on 04/04/2014 9:38:29 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: MeshugeMikey

If that includes the secret services bar tab that sounds about right.

CC


4 posted on 04/04/2014 9:47:52 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: Celtic Conservative

ahahahaha imagine the tab if Mrs Clinton had been along on the trip


5 posted on 04/04/2014 9:49:58 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Well, the Secret Service bar tab WAS pretty high...


6 posted on 04/04/2014 9:57:43 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: MeshugeMikey

Queen Michelle Antoinette and her royal consort, King Louis Obama I are competing to see who is best on milking the American people to the last drop.

People Not In Labor Force Soar To Record 91.8 Million; Participation Rate Plunges To 1978 Levels... The American middle class shrunk 25% under Obama... and for the suffering unemployed Americans... cake


7 posted on 04/04/2014 10:01:40 AM PDT by Dqban22
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the shrinkage of the middle class is a necessary part of..”THE STRUGGLE”.....

who could ever have imagined this mess.


8 posted on 04/04/2014 10:07:29 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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$1,522,646.36

Mrs WBill and I are going to save for our retirement for almost 40 years. We're not there yet, by far, there's still a long way to go. But - that's 40 years of - not exactly doing without, but not doing with as much. Eating PB&J's for lunch, instead of going out with my co-workers. Having "staycations" and painting the house, instead of calling up a painter, then jetting off to Disney (or whereever). 40 years of careful study, reading, learning, financial management and accepting all of the risks involved ..... to hopefully make it across the finish line.....

With some good fortune, and a lot of hard work, we *might* make it to the dollar figure BO blew through on an overnight as a part of his European Junket.

I shouldn't read articles like this. They just get my BP up.

9 posted on 04/04/2014 10:21:09 AM PDT by wbill
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To: GOPJ

And this bill is for Zer0 and only 1/3rd of the 900 lackeys that went on the trip. That should put the total tab around $4.5 million of our dollars.


10 posted on 04/04/2014 11:21:44 AM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: MeshugeMikey

the guy isn’t worth ten cents


11 posted on 04/04/2014 11:27:33 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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not a plugged nickel!!


12 posted on 04/04/2014 11:28:33 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Noob1999

It’s a bargain ...we’re lucky taxpayers. /s


13 posted on 04/04/2014 11:46:27 AM PDT by GOPJ (For your psycho gunman, a military base is basically a grade-school in uniform. - Mark Steyn)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I’ll bet the White House Travel office shopped Hotwire.com and hotels.com for the best bargain...


14 posted on 04/04/2014 2:02:03 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

spendthrift.com

the hussein obama’s favorite site for travel and entertainment bargains


15 posted on 04/04/2014 2:23:39 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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