-PJ
Obama is probably is here to perpetuate one of the biggest frauds and scams in American history. That is his job.
What was the carbon footprint of the date?
The costs aren’t just for the aircraft operating hours. How much for the SS prep and vetting of the venues they were visiting? How much for ground transport, operating costs, fuel, etc. How much for Marine 1 to fly from the WH to Andrews? How much for the local PD to help provide security at the airport in NY? (Can you say OT anyone?)
The SS are usually augmented by local PD to assist the SS with manpower and the WH gets the bill from the locals. There are many more overhead and associated costs with this junket that I haven’t even touched on.
This trip was probably more in the range of $500,000 or more.
FUBO!
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.”
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.