THIS IS BARACK OBAMA:
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW, IN ONE PLACE
By DiscoverTheNetworks.org
LIVING LIKE ROYALTY, PERPETUALLY FUNDRAISING
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Taxpayers Spend $1.4 Billion Annually on the Obama Family
In 2011, American taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family; by contrast, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family. In his 2012 book Presidential Perks Gone Royal, author Robert Keith Gray writes that the $1.4 billion figure included the president’s innumerable flights on an Air Force One that was “running with the frequency of a scheduled air line.” “The most concerning thing,” said Gray, was “the use of taxpayer funds to actually abet his re-election”—most notably by using Air Force One to criss-cross the country campaigning and fundraising.
Barack and Michelle Obama Take Two Separate Jets to Vacation Spot in Martha’s Vineyard
One of the innumerable examples of the Obamas’ lack of respect for American taxpayers occurred on August 19, 2011, when the President and his family flew to Martha’s Vineyard for a ten-day vacation at a $50,000-per-week rented estate. They traveled on two separate jets, with the First Lady and the two Obama children arriving four hours earlier than the President. At much extra cost to taxpayers, Mrs. Obama (along with any extra staff and Secret Service personnel that had to be enlisted to go with her) traveled on a specially designed military aircraft instead of with her husband on Air Force One. She also had her own motorcade escorting her from the airport to her vacation residence. According to NewsBusters.com: “This is not the first time Michelle has gone on vacation ahead of the president on the taxpayers’ tab. Last December, she racked up what was likely more than $100,000 in expenses leaving early for their Hawaii vacation.”
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“”Last December, she racked up what was likely more than $100,000 in expenses leaving early for their Hawaii vacation.””
And they think we won’t remember that she stayed on for a week or so (celebrating her 50th birthday) after Air Force One left with obozo onboard so another plane had to fly out to fly her back to DC....
I don’t know if she was bitching that no one approached her at Target because she was black or because they didn’t realize she was the “first (ahem!) lady”. No one has ever approached me at Target either and I’m white!
This is the first time I have ever been ashamed of my country! Take that Michelle.