Posted on 09/02/2009 9:13:08 PM PDT by American Dream 246
The irony is that the media says nothing. They beat Bush with a club for one $40 million dollar inauguration. But they lauded the maroon in the White House for his silly $150,000 million inaugural porkfest.
They crucified Bush if and when he went back home to Crawford, Texas, to work from there and chop, ya know, some wood or whatever it is real men do. But O's 20 million dollar rental on Martha's Vineyard elicits nothing but praise -- a move heralded by the supine and corrupt media. Nothing is too good for an Arugula man digging America an early grave.
And bear in mind that we are in a "terrible depression".
From a former Air Force Colonel.... First, let me say that I've flown (moved) three presidents up to now and I've seen incredible waste. But, the "new" guy really takes the cake. I don't have an issue with the President promising his wife dinner and a show or that he even takes his wife out. But, when I see the news say that the date cost (only) $24,000, I can't resist exposing what they DON'T say.
Three days before "dinner" a C-17 flew Marines and the helicopter maintenance equipment to JFK Airport .
The day before "dinner" I flew the USSS (Secret Service) and the motorcade to JFK Airport Our crew of 5 spent two days and nights at the Hilton in Times Square. My hotel bill: $621.66 plus $64 a day in per diem. The USSS guys were at a different Hilton in NYC, so figure that cost another $14,000 (or so) plus per diem. The Marines had to have cost as much and were there four days, so figure another $55,000 plus per diem (for 44 Marines).
We were supposed to fly the motorcade back and go home, but the Air Force was so short of C-17's that we were re-tasked to take the motorcade back, return to JFK and take the helicopter back to Quantico . When we got back to JFK, while the pilot was turning the plane around to park, he noticed a rotor blade sticking out of the hangar where the helicopter was parked and informed me that either it wasn't ready to transport or it was flying home. After shutting down I walked over to the hangar and to my surprise I find FIVE helicopters, not ONE.
We're obviously not transporting five big helicopters. I went and talked to the Marines guarding the "fleet" and found that they were flying all five helicopters home and we were only transporting the Marines and the maintenance equipment.
After talking to the Marine in charge, I was told that the White House requested FIVE helicopters. The Marines told me that they spent all morning trying to figure out how much it cost them to come and said they figured it cost them $140,000 to stay there (I don't know where they came up with that). Overall, the trip's total had to be about $1,000,000.
We heard that the President didn't use Air Force One (the 747) so I asked if he came in on one of the 757's. I was told that he came in on THREE Air Force Lear jets. So, date night consisted of:
Two C-17's flying three missions, 3 Lear jets, 5 Helicopters, Presidential Motorcade, 44 Marines, more than 20 USSS personnel on our plane. Who knows what it cost the NYPD and NY Port Authority (at the airport) in overtime.
Note that these are the people who chastised automobile CEO's for using their aircraft. One also sees that the media only use the facts that make the President look good and hide any facts that will detract from his persona..
Is this the 'change' we expected? Many folks I know who voted for Obama are very disappointed and sorry they did so.
The Emperor's clothes on a grand scale. "Transparency"? Our next chance, 2010, is just around the corner. All we have to do is survive long enough.
considering what they have done in 8 months... i’d hate to consider what they will be able to do in the next 18 months.
so the question is... how do we stop it?
in business, you would just defund the project. therefore, we need to defund the fedgov to keep them from ruining our country completely.
and yes, the dems will do it. keep in mind, dems benefit from a crashed economy... as everyone will need food stamps, jobs programs, welfare, etc. that just results in more people voting dem due to need.
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Good posting!
Remember the good old days when Democrats like Truman drove his own car to the bank and cashed his own presidential paycheck? We’re in deep VooDoo DooDoo now.
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