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Obama’s Hawaiian Christmas vacations cost taxpayers $35 million over 8 years
The Washington Times ^ | December 22, 2016 | Dave Boyer

Posted on 12/22/2016 6:15:01 PM PST by jazusamo

For the last time, taxpayers are paying for a Hawaiian Christmas vacation for President Obama and his family, an annual luxury getaway that has cost the Treasury easily more than $35 million over eight years.

Golfing on oceanside courses, dining at high-end restaurants and frolicking on stunning white-sand beaches where security guards keep other tourists at bay, the president and his family are in the midst of a 17-day holiday that requires dozens of Secret Service agents, military personnel and other government employees to guarantee their safety and ease of travel around Oahu.

The Obamas are once again renting a multimillion-dollar oceanfront home in Kailua, a town on the northeast side of the island where houses in the neighborhood fetch around $10 million. It’s near golf courses and a Marine Corps base where the president goes for morning workouts at the gym.

One plantation-style house in Kailua touted online as the “Obama winter White House” is listed for sale for $8 million, featuring more than 7,000 square feet of interior space, 5.5 bathrooms, five bedrooms, a rock-walled pool and waterfall, three lanais (porches) and majestic ocean views.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: bho44; hawaii; obama; obamafamily; obamavacations; pricetag; scamartist; vacations
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January 21 can't come soon enough, the scam artist _resident won't be scamming the taxpayers any longer.
1 posted on 12/22/2016 6:15:01 PM PST by jazusamo
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https://twitter.com/WHPublicPool


2 posted on 12/22/2016 6:18:53 PM PST by jennychase
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"Christmas" vacation, my arse..

How come when the 0dunga's take a vacation in Dec., it's a "CHRISTMAS" vacation, but for anyone else in the eyes of the Enemedia it would be a "HOLIDAY" vacation.. Hmmm?

Down to the very end, the media continues their subliminal campaign to paint the 0dunga's as CHRISTIAN. You fool NO ONE, media. NO ONE!

3 posted on 12/22/2016 6:23:35 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account ‏@realDonaldTrump

The so-called "A" list celebrities are all wanting tixs to the inauguration, but look what they did for Hillary, NOTHING. I want the PEOPLE!


4 posted on 12/22/2016 6:29:20 PM PST by jennychase
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The bastard could stay there forever as far as I am concerned. I cannot wait till his policies are ripped out. Hawaii eh. The POS had not lived there since the early 80s. Why not Kenya. He has more history there. He starts and ends as nothing more than a wise mouthed corner barker.


5 posted on 12/22/2016 6:30:28 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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The Obamas have had such a tough life. It must be hard to live like that in “rasis” America.


6 posted on 12/22/2016 6:33:57 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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7 posted on 12/22/2016 6:37:56 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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Hey, it’s just text payer dollars.

If you think of it as reparations it’s no problem.


8 posted on 12/22/2016 6:38:33 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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The Global Masters drive to play

The Lowly Proles drive to pay


9 posted on 12/22/2016 6:39:44 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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35$mil could buy a whole lot of warm coats for (real or imaginary) poor peeps, could it not?


10 posted on 12/22/2016 6:41:28 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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Well this turkey has gotten more than his share of reparations, he and mooch should start doling it out.


11 posted on 12/22/2016 6:42:17 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Are you suggesting that the GOP Congress did not appropriate the money for these vacations?


12 posted on 12/22/2016 6:42:49 PM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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scumbag grifters


13 posted on 12/22/2016 6:52:29 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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14 posted on 12/22/2016 7:04:54 PM PST by Proyecto Anonimo
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There’s never an erupting volcano handy when you need one, is there?

*SMIRK*


15 posted on 12/22/2016 7:05:35 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: jazusamo

35 million each sounds low.


16 posted on 12/22/2016 7:15:44 PM PST by Ingtar (.)
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A small price to pay, considering how much damage he could have done while in Washington.


17 posted on 12/22/2016 7:17:52 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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Congress needs to put a limit on how much the POTUS can spend on their vacations that they don’t need. What’s wrong with Camp David? Not ritzy enough for the royal family?


18 posted on 12/22/2016 7:17:59 PM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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19 posted on 12/22/2016 7:18:48 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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:)


20 posted on 12/22/2016 7:24:10 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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