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 ...
The entourage will be the biggest ever in terms of logistics and manpower for any US president.
The president himself will be ferried around in a black Cadillac - dubbed ‘Barack Mobile’ - which has its own built in communications centre - to enable Obama to be in touch with the White House, US vice president and the US strategic command
The car also has the US nuke launch codes and the nuclear switch for the president. It can also withstand a chemical or germ warfare or even a bomb attack.
Obama will be accompanied on the trip by US first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha, according to Indian newspaper Headlines Today.
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That’s payback for the elections today. A way for Obongo and Wookie to give the American people the big middle finger. Movin’ on up pigs. Expect many more trips in the next 2 years. They will milk it for all they can.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcggr_23WJU
When I complained about the Usurper’s trip to LA that clogged traffic for hours a few months ago, a Libbo friend noted that “he deserves the same as those who came before him”. So, before I go on protesting loudly over this complete waste of resources, I need to know: If ANY US President were to travel to India, would this be the same level of security detail, entourage, cost? If so, then I guess we can’t complain. But if this is more than what is usually required due to his narcissism, ego, and complete helplessness, then Yes, this is totally inappropriate and should not be tolerated by the good Americans of this country.
Any thoughts?
— $200 million a day —
A cool billion in just five days ...
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Is there any way to tether this guy to the White House so he can't do so much damage??
At $200 million a day it would take 13+ years to reach a trillion. Definitely a bargain to keep him out.
The question is HOW MANY trips.
One trip a year at this cost...or many trips at this cost.
Hey, da narcissistic man-child gotta chill out, don’tcha know?
He be pretty tired from destroying America, and watchin all his palls burn today at the stake that he planted.
Concentrate on # 5 all this spending by officials intentional and in your face..
Secret Document authored by the Communist International for their “young revolutionaries”.(Love Letter To America 1984)
1. Corrupt the young, get them interested in sex, take them away from religion. Make them superficial and enfeebled.
2. Divide people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial issues of no importance.
3. Destroy people’s faith in their national leaders by holding the latter up for contempt, ridicule and disgrace.
4. Always preach democracy, but seize power as fast and ruthlessly as possible.
5. By encouraging government extravagances, destroy its credit, produce years of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.
6. Incite unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of the government towards such disorders.
7. Cause a breakdown of the old moral virtues: honesty, sobriety, self-restraint, faith in the pledged word.
Yes, I thought it might pencil out better that way.
The Clinton’s did the same thing. Freeloaders, that’s all they are. It doesn’t matter if they have lots of money, don’t want to do it when they have to use their own. This is payback for the elections today.
Is this really the image that Bozo wanted to project in the weeks leading up to the election? People are suffering in this country. Middle class people are scarred about the future- many for the first time in their lives. I don’t think this extravagant and wasteful trip is sending the message the voters want to hear.
Obama projects the image of a Caligula when he ought to be crafting a “man of the people” vibe. He’s politically tone deaf.
Posted 2/28/2006 10:15 PM Updated 3/1/2006 1:07 PM
Bush trip to India, Pakistan requires delicate touch
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-02-28-bush-south-asia_x.htm
If Bush needed this level of stuff in 2006, don’t you think we’d have heard about it?
Their extended family and then those people's extended families? I mean, is there any other way to come up with such an exorbitant amount of people? It's like they're taking an entire town.
They weren’t going to go, but apparently, according to the news reports, big Wookie wanted them to go, so they are going.
The Imperial Presidency. Like a hobo winning the lottery. Can you imagine the hue and cry were a conservative to pull a stunt like this? But then again, you couldn’t be a conservative and engage in this type idiocy.
And yet.. And yet....
It might be cheaper overall to just keep him and his entourage there until Jan 22, 2013, then having them in Washington, actively destroying the economy, our national Sovereignty and National Security.
Obama just want to stimulate India’s economy.
Good for India.
He already did.
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3000??!!
Important to pay very close attention to what he says at his “news conference”. Listen for go signals. Will he mention Slurpees? That could be a final thumbs up for a hit on the 7th. Who knows, but noone with any functioning brain cells trusts this wicked Uslurper.
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