Hey, man, we need another vacay.
Posted on 11/03/2010 5:41:20 PM PDT by erkyl
[snip]Reports in both the Russian and Chinese press speculate that when U.S. President Barack Obama visits India in November he "may secure $5 billion worth of arms sales," a deal that "would make the US replace Russia as India’s biggest arms supplier" and "help India curb China’s rise."
[snip]"The Obama administration is trying to persuade New Delhi to buy American jet fighters instead [of Russian ones], a shift White House officials say would lead to closer military and political relations between India and the U.S. It would also be a bonanza for U.S. defense contractors, and [the White House] has dispatched senior officials such as Mr. Gates to New Delhi to deliver the message that Washington hopes India will choose American defense firms for major purchases in the years ahead."
[snip] The White House is negotiating new export control agreements with India to assist American arms firms to sell more high-technology weapons to the Asian nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogfrommiddleeast.com ...
Maybe he’s leaving because he knows something bad is going to happen here? :)
Another vacation on our dime?
To spend 200 million dollars of taxpayer money per day.
He’s now personally taken it upon himself to increase the national debt by spending as much money as he possibly can.
This doofus is not going to make a business deal that benefits American defense contractors. Period. He has a pattern. This is nothing but one upping clinton. clinton did the same trip with about the same number of airplanes toward the end of his second term. For what? A vacation.
This is just another taxpayer paid vacation from the rigors of non governing.
The girls weren't originally supposed to be going, but I read that Michelle insisted, so now they are coming along. Kind of falls into that category of "Things that make you go Hmmmmmm."
Has there been any other confirmation of this? All I have seen is a single Indian Newspaper.
This works out to about $60,000 per person. Seems unlikely.
Hey, man, we need another vacay.
Several Indian sources. They should know! They’re getting the money! UK papers are reporting the same.
Here’s an example of one trip he took to Copenhagen in 2009 to lead the US appeal for the 2016 Summer Olympic games in Chicago...
He arrived in Copenhagen on Friday morning and departed Copenhagen for the USA Friday evening. Cost of the trip? $10 million.
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/6248/cost-obamas-copenhagen-trip
Eagle, did you happen to catch this story? Pilgrimage to the monkey-god shrines.
“200 top American CEOs coming with Obama (on trip to India)”
That would feed a small country for some time! WOW
That would feed a small country for some time! WOW
I believe we should request the House look into this massive spending, and find some way to limit a President, and his families expenses. If they want to travel let them pay for it, if it isn’t official business. And official business shouldn’t be on financial overload.
He's a One Worlder through and through without any allegiance to America. Mr. 'Citizen of the World' himself. He could care less about Americans keeping American jobs.
Doing his best to lower the standard of living in the United States and level it with other economic cesspools globally.
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