How Much is Obama's India Trip Costing Tax Payers?

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[The Comedian]

I'd give it about an 80% probability that America is going get the Jericho option while His Kenyanness is evacuating the royal entourage to Mumbai.

Economic collapse + civil unrest, then domestic nukes.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[ladyjane]

80% ?

[machogirl]

that and shoes would be helpful.
does anyone expect him to come back? is he setting up the Eastern WH in Indonesia?

[The Comedian]

80%?

You won't be shocked to find out I've been wrong before.

But yeah, I'm putting all my chips on 80% *black*.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[ViLaLuz]

Maybe he knows we’re going to get nuked so he left.

I read today, too, that he is escorting corporate leaders. What companies, I wonder.

[Caipirabob]

EXACTLY, it’s the equivalent taking their kids along to watch the Normandy Invasion./s

Unless he knows that the landing is HERE...

[CaptainPhilFan]

Whatever the cost is, it’s an over the top
excessive trip to be taken by a President
(ugh I hate using that word to identify him)
while his consituents are losing jobs
and fighting the tide of rising taxes
and lost income.

It’s a horrible display of insensitivity,
it’s almost criminal. Is it merely to bring
that much American cash to India?

Are the 200 CEO’s going to negotiate deals
for more jobs over there on our dime? The whole
thing is wrong and Barry doesn’t give a shit.

The actual price tag of this trip is not cheap,
we can easily determine that. Whatever the price,
it is far too much. THAT is the argument.

[ladyjane]

He is taking over 200 CEOs with him. Companies include: United Technologies, DuPont, Dow Chemical, Pepsico and McGraw Hill.

Noah’s Ark

[machogirl]

If President Bush had done ANYTHING like this, the press would be all over it. From what I’ve read, the WH won’t release hardly anything about his Vacay.

[ladyjane]

The more I think about it this junket is a dress rehearsal/training exercise. It allows the SS, the FBI and the military to debug their security procedures and be ready for when they have to evacuate the heads of state and set up the government in exile for real.