Obama’s 1 percent lifestyle hits a nerve

The Washington Times ^ | April 7, 2013 | Joseph Curl

[2ndDivisionVet]

When was your last vacation of any kind? Ours was a short trip to Hot Springs, Arkansas in 2007.

[steve86]

Ours are one or two in state a year or just across the state line for a couple of nights. True vacations to a destination are a distant memory.

[D Rider]

Ours are one or two in state a year or just across the state line for a couple of nights. True vacations to a destination are a distant memory.

Exactly! Hey, do I look like a government employee? Who else can afford a real vacation?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Being able to go to a movie or a sit-down restaurant looks like a Caribbean cruise right now.

[econjack]

Yet Johann Ritter took issue with the column: “Aren’t you being a little rough on the first family? I mean, if you were running a company that is losing about $114 million an hour, wouldn’t you need some really serious vacation time? I would have given up on fixing the problem and find a reason to stay out of the office.”

No. If my company was bleeding that much of Other People's Money, I'd be in the office trying to fix things. Also, Obozo really pisses me off when I hear him talk about "the rich and corporations taking advantage of tax breaks". Really? Who does that eff'in idiot think wrote the tax code? Kick yourself and everyone else in the House and Senate in the teeth for making the Tax Code so complicated that when I phone for help, each person gives me a different answer.

I'm so PO'ed I could spit!

[BradyLS]

Yet Johann Ritter took issue with the column: “Aren’t you being a little rough on the first family? I mean, if you were running a company that is losing about $114 million an hour, wouldn’t you need some really serious vacation time? I would have given up on fixing the problem and find a reason to stay out of the office.”

My first thought was to say: "That's an employee attitude, not an executive one." But stories of "executives" bailing out of struggling businesses with a golden parachutes started filling my head.

Probably closer to say, "That's an employee attitude, not a business owner's attitude." And that's what Obama is. He's an executive with an employee's attitude. "I can't fix it. I'm stuck. So I'm checking out every chance I get."

He probably thought four years ago that his hand-picked, like-minded geniuses would have it all figured out by now. They're all looking at each other in blank wonderment: "I thought you could fix it!"

Hillary bailed so she could take one more grab at the ball in 2016. And if the GOPe continues their course, she'll probably get it.

[vbmoneyspender]

Being able to go to a movie or a sit-down restaurant looks like a Caribbean cruise right now.

BTTT.

[Jeff Chandler]

if the GOPe continues their course, she'll probably get it.

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Republican Candidate 2016:

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"It's my turn."

[jmacusa]

I work six days a week. Whats a ‘’vacation’’?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

We scraped up enough to go to Fort Benning for my Grandson's basic training graduation last year.

Baloney sandwiches in cheap motel rooms, WHOOOPEEE!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Worth it, I’m sure. Thank him for me.

[CottShop]

[[90 million Americans out of the workforce,]]

And cuts to SS for the elderly and dissabled, while he and family whoop it up at the whitehouse and the press Says absolutely SQUAT about it-

[SWAMPSNIPER]

He called a couple of days ago, promoted to E4. He will do just fine!

One of his buddies just finished Marine Corps basic. The kid has no close family so he sort of got adopted here. He is a little bitty kid but he was damned determined to be a Marine. He called my daughter and asked her if she would make her special hot wings for him so it looks like there will be a whole mess of kids around this weekend.

This place rocks on weekends, I just hide out in here with my cat, and they let me clean the guns.

[Soul of the South]

The Obama’s living the lifestyle of the rich and famous is an issue the GOP should have made a big issue in the campaign. Of course the party ran the one candidate who could not make Obama’s royal lifestyle an issue. Romney was even stupid enough to be building a palatial home in La Jolla during the election year.

[freedomfiter2]

I work six days a week. Whats a ‘’vacation’’?

A five day work week.

[I want the USA back]

The family in the white house is part of the ruling elite. They live high off the hog on our money, while looking down at us with scorn.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

We’ve saved up for two years to be able to afford a trip to Disney this summer. Other than that, short trips in-state...camping, fishing, etc.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[Eye of Unk]

2004, Disneyworld and other theme parks in Orlando.
Rented a vacation rental home for the month of january.

Its a much better deal renting a home than in the parks, a nice escape from Alaska.