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US to spend $200 mn a day on Obama's Mumbai visit
NDTV ^ | November 2, 2010

Posted on 11/02/2010 8:55:54 AM PDT by maggief

Mumbai: The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs. 900 crore approx) per day on President Barack Obama's visit to the city.

"The huge amount of around $200 million would be spent on security, stay and other aspects of the Presidential visit," a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit said.

About 3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and journalists would accompany the President. Several officials from the White House and US security agencies are already here for the past one week with helicopters, a ship and high-end security instruments.

Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/us-to-spend-200-mn-a-day-on-obama-s-mumbai-visit-64106?cp

(Excerpt) Read more at ndtv.com ...


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To: Ezekiel

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2618869/posts

Might be of interest from yesterday


81 posted on 11/02/2010 9:46:09 AM PDT by EBH (the first step in a long journey...that finally begins on November 2nd, 2010.)
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To: maggief

WHERE THE HELL IS THE APPROPRIATION FOR THAT??? SERIOUSLY, WHERE IS THIS BURIED IN THE BUDGET? HOW IS IT COVERED UNDER THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION? YOU ARE DAMNED RIGHT I AM SHOUTING.


82 posted on 11/02/2010 9:49:05 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
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To: Nachum

How does this register on your level of anger for such outrageous arrogance?


83 posted on 11/02/2010 9:49:51 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (LET'S ROLL - DEFEAT THE ENEMIES OF FREEDOM TODAY.)
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To: maggief

Is there a change something was lost in translation?

This just seems to impossible to be true. 3000 people?


84 posted on 11/02/2010 9:50:20 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: Ezekiel

See also post #19.


85 posted on 11/02/2010 9:50:20 AM PDT by maggief
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To: agere_contra

The entire hotel. Seriously!”

Yeah, I heard 570 rooms. Even members of his delegation will not be allowed on his floor or the floors immediately above and below. Those will be occupied by 700 federal agents. This is more like a war effort than a presidential trip.


86 posted on 11/02/2010 9:51:16 AM PDT by bereanway (I'd rather have 40 Marco Rubios than 60 Arlen Specters)
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To: maggief
I have lots of comments deserved on this thread concerning The First Maggot.

I shall begin with this educational reminder :

The First Traitor's Rise to Power

Read it and weep.

This addresses the morons on talk shows supporting the First Maggot claiming that the U.S. economy went south in 2007, during Bush's Presidency.
Morons, by definition, are incapable of grasping the concept of cause and effect.

The handwriting was on the wall in 2007. Business and Citizens with a brain saw, in 2007, that there was a chance, however improbable, that a radical socialist progressive could ---even remotely --- be elected president due to factors which have been discussed at length since then.

The economy responded rationally until the results were in.

The results were the biggest disaster for the US outside of Pearl Harbor, WW2 and 911.

87 posted on 11/02/2010 9:54:06 AM PDT by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: Clump

99% would be a good number

Computer is going off...

too much lightening


88 posted on 11/02/2010 9:54:27 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: maggief

Vote baby vote!


89 posted on 11/02/2010 9:57:11 AM PDT by ColdOne (GOP. Gutless Old Politicians :^))) Finally, Nov 2, !!!!!!)
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To: kevinm13

Many?! All the hotel’s rooms!
Don’t forget the helicopters that will be disassembled and then reassembled in India.
Don’t forget food testers. Friends and family. Etc and so forth.
He is the King of the World, don’t you know that.


90 posted on 11/02/2010 9:57:21 AM PDT by alecqss
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To: mom4melody

3000 people divided by 40 aircraft averages 75 per plane.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1325075/Obama-India-visit-Biggest-US-President-40-planes-6-armoured-cars.html?ito=feeds-newsxml


91 posted on 11/02/2010 9:57:21 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief
About 3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and journalists

Would it be too much to learn the names of these 3000 people? Except perhaps the names of the secret service agents and the journalists.

Freedom of Information Act material?

I really, really would like to know those names.

For later.

92 posted on 11/02/2010 9:59:43 AM PDT by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: maggief
Indian media sources are notoriously and risibly wrong most of the time.

Even the Kenyan usurper won't be able to spend $200 million all told on his trip --- well, unless you count the bribes formulated as "foreign aid" to the Indian government for allowing the very unpopular Kenyan Clown to visit in the aftermath of the Democrats receiving a record shellacking at the polls.

93 posted on 11/02/2010 10:00:22 AM PDT by snowsislander (In this election year, please ask your candidates if they support repeal of the 1968 GCA.)
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To: maggief

I dare him to come back after pulling a stunt like this!!!!


94 posted on 11/02/2010 10:00:46 AM PDT by mo
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To: maggief; Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!; The Comedian

Bush’s fault!


95 posted on 11/02/2010 10:00:46 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: nikos1121

Yes, the $200mm/day is absoultely gross, but that amount of revenue may get you in the Fortune 5,000 but not within sniffing disatance of the 500. Look on the bright side, 3,000 people/200 rooms is 15 per room. The Zero is trying to save us poor tax payers a few bucks.


96 posted on 11/02/2010 10:00:55 AM PDT by newbie 10-21-00
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To: nikos1121

******Is there anyone....ANYONE in this government of ours who is the least bit concerned about this? $200 million per day... This represents the annual gross revenues of many fortune 500 companies.******

I repeat from yesterday....

...... your seeing what Washington and the Beltway are really all about now, right smack out in the open. ....You can “reach right into Thomas side” now, and believe flat out.
Total bailout for the all the exact same players was what the bailout and VampireCare was, and is, all about. There exists no U.S. and Constitution to these people. None.


97 posted on 11/02/2010 10:02:27 AM PDT by Varsity Flight
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To: EBH; maggief; Yehuda

Everything about this Asia trip sure pegs the weirdsh!t-o-meter.


98 posted on 11/02/2010 10:02:54 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: maggief

I worked on the WH Advance Team under Bush. The cost and number of people don’t add up. Bill Clinton’s China world tour only cost the taxpayer around $50MM and it had half of DC on the trip and 77 aircraft supporting the trip. On this trip, they also only booked about 700 rooms in India. Even at 700, that’s an astounding number in and of itself. I never saw any overseas trips with Bush have anywhere near 700 people.

http://rpc.senate.gov/releases/1999/df033000.htm


99 posted on 11/02/2010 10:05:49 AM PDT by jgilbert63
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To: jazminerose
What would it cost to keep him there longer?

I prefer permanently.

Further, I would recommend Kenya, instead. It's cheaper. More dangerous. But more likely to award him and the First Sasquatch the life they deserve.

100 posted on 11/02/2010 10:07:32 AM PDT by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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