Posted on 06/01/2009 1:05:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON -- White House spokesman Robert Gibbs is declining to say what it cost for President Obama and his wife, Michelle, to eat dinner and take in a play in New York over the weekend.
Asked if he would outline the costs, Gibbs said Monday the Obamas would have preferred using a commercial airline shuttle to New York and back but the Secret Service would not allow such unprotected travel.
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Powerful people with lots of money can do whatever they want, but someone flying on my tax dollars is totally different and like comparing apples and oranges.
If he wanted to pay for it, then fine. But takeing a helicopter, limo, and a plane for the media is wrong. Why did the media have to have a plane when the MSM is in NYC?
Waste of tax dollar money which I help contribute.
>>> This trip was probably more in the range of $500,000 or more.
Now, I wonder if you were to divide $500,000 by the average individual’s income tax contribution, how many American’s devoted their entire 2008 taxes to go on this SINGLE trip?
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/President44/Story?id=6329884&page=1
Obama said the executives at those companies who have taken federal loans should act responsibly with the tax payers’ money, chiding Wall Street executives who sought multimillion dollar bonuses and the leaders of Detroit’s Big Three automakers who last week flew to Washington aboard private jets to ask Congress for a bailout.
He called the automaker executives “tone deaf” to the concerns of the American people.
Weeks away from his inauguration, Obama stressed to Walters the importance of personal, corporate and civic accountability in light of the cratering economy and said his presidency would be a return to “the ethic of responsibility.”
Obama said “captains of industry” on Wall Street and in Detroit who took advantage of corporate perks while their companies benefited from government loans paid for with taxpayers’ money, don’t have “any perspective on what’s happening to ordinary Americans.”
You are a good boy good boy.
1 American paying for any part of this is 1 too many imo, but I get your point.
SZ
Is that Michelle’s white bra showing through? Classy. No wonder the U.S. media fawns over her impeccable fashion taste.....
Look at what it cost to fly Air Force One to New York for that photo shoot and multiply that by at least 2.5 times. I am certain the Obama’s didn’t dine at McDonalds nor stay at a Holiday Inn Express either.
Perhaps His Exalted Magnificence, King Baraq, is superstitious about going to the theater in DC?
I agree only I think he’s about Ten Years Old emotionally.
Michelle is probably a lot like his mother was or else the exact opposite.
I think that as Democrats wake up and realize they’re NOT as liberal as the Socialists, the number of people asking about 0bama’s Birth Certificate will grow.
There is going to be a huge crisis centered around DC and the White House. Which it will be is the current “unknown.”
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