Posted on 01/10/2017 5:27:49 AM PST by HomerBohn
to Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act requests, Americans now know that the Obama family spent a whopping $96.9 million on travel at taxpayer expense.
These expenses far exceed the President's $100,000 annual travel expense authorization codified in 3 U.S. Code, Chapter 2, Section 103. Section 105 of this Federal code also limits the number of staff the President can have and staff member's maximum salaries. Presumably, Secret Service staff for the President and his family should be counted among that number.
Here are some details of the Obama's unnecessary political and vacation expenses:
Barack Obama's April 2015 Earth Day trip to give a global warming speech in the Florida Everglades cost taxpayers $1 million. (This travel was not "necessary" to govern our country and was ten times the President's annual travel budget.)
Barack Obama's October 2015 fundraising travel to San Diego cost $2.1 million. (Again, this was not official government business. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) should reimburse the Treasury for those expenses.)
Michelle Obama's February 2016 ski trip to Aspen with their daughters cost $222,875. (That's more than most of our houses are worth and more than half the President's $400,000 annual salary, as defined in 3 USC 2 §102! There is no authorization for vacation travel expenses for the President's family! Why did taxpayers pay for their vacation?)
Barack Obama's trips to Cuba and Argentina in March 2016 cost $7.1 million. (Did the President forget that he has a $100,000 travel budget? Did he invest even $100,000 in travel to improve relationships with our ALLIES? Has Obama ever heard of using the telephone to conduct international business, in lieu of costly travel? Apparently only when it's convenient to use the phone to circumvent Congress, like when he was arranging $400 million ransom payments to fund Iran's terrorism and development of nuclear weapons. )
Michelle Obama's June 2016 trip to Morocco, Spain and Liberia with their daughters cost $450,000 in flight expenses alone. (This expense again exceeded the President's annual salary. Would they have taken this vacation if it wasn't taxpayer funded?)
The Obama family's travel to Martha's Vineyard for an August 2016 vacation cost $450,295 in flight expenses alone. (Again... an expense greater than the President's annual salary... courtesy of our wallets.)
A Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama Air Force One campaign trip to North Carolina in July 2016 cost taxpayers $360,236. (The DNC should reimburse the Treasury for that expense too.)
It's time for the "royal family" to exit the White House and the next occupants to refrain from such conduct. The Obama's should reimburse the Treasury for all of the above travel expenses that exceeded the President's annual travel authorization or were totally unauthorized. The DNC should reimburse the Treasury for all campaign-related travel expenses.
Citizens should, through the courts if necessary, insist that the President adhere to the budget for Presidential travel and limits on staff hiring. Congress should establish fiscally responsible guidelines for Secret Service protection and military-supported travel for the President and his family.
Taxpayers should not be funding the President's vacation travel or political campaign trips! A good start would be a thorough review of 3 USC Chapter 2: Office and Compensation of President.
This is outrageous for this fraud to spend this kind of money for his pleasure, and nobody stopped him. I can only pray that the investigation begin against him for his corruption, crimes against America and his treason. I am thankful we have an incoming president who will cost the American taxpayers $1 a year salary, and I doubt he'll spend little time, if any, flying around the globe for vacations and unnecessary travel. That's a businessman who will make America great again, not a community organizer unqualified for the oval office!
Ghetto trash, the lot of them, and their administration, too.
The Obamas think that they are owed any amount they want to spend because of slavery that ended 150 years ago.
How ‘bout a nice trip that begins at Cape Canaveral and ends with a long quiet spacewalk?
Only 10 more days to go to break $100 million!
One of the big slave traders for whom Obama's forefathers collected slaves has an interesting bio.
Churchill's role in stamping out the last of the slave trade in former German East Africa and his later role in the 1950s during his second stint as Prime Minister in suppressing the Mau-Mau uprising in Kenya relegated Obama's tribe from wealthy slave collectors near the coast to livestock herders in the interior. This is why their hatred of things British in general and Churchill in particular is white hot.
They became basically glorified looters.
Any tvs left in the Whitehouse?
This grifter/loser “family” should be forced to pay-back these stolen funds. It should be done “for the children”.
His constituents don't care about such things. They didn't care that bill klinton is an immoral piece of human filth and waste of oxygen. They don't care that o'dummy is a foreign born America hating raghead socialist racist.
As long as they can whore around, get pregnant, murder the child and toss the fetus' body in the trash, and get back to whoring. Such things as that are what's important to liberals.
He is still on his way. Last weekend he flew on Sat from DC to Jax to attend a wedding. Spent 2 hours in Jacksonville Fl with no governmental function to “cover” his trip.
Unbelievable.
They should be forced to repay.
forgive the debt and apply it to his income then pay the taxes.
Send the bill to Hollywood!!!!
The Obama’s didn’t feel like any ordinary president and first lady.
They felt that they were more like royalty, and as such, they wanted to travel as king and queen, and princesses. Nothing but the best, and nothing ordinary, and no expenses barred.
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