Posted on 11/02/2010 4:08:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama's trip to India will cost the U.S. $200m-a-day, it was reported today.
The visit - part of a 10-trip to Asia - will take place amid unprecedented levels of security in the city of Mumbai, where terrorists killed at least 173 people two years ago.
Extreme measures to ensure the safety of President Obama will include the complete booking of the 570-room Taj Mahal Hotel for his security entourage.
The building saw some of the fiercest fighting between Islamic militant gunmen and security forces during the November 2008 atrocity.
Other precautions include the use of helicopters, US and Indian Navy ships to patrol the Mumbai waterfront and the use of sophisticated surveillance equipment...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Two million, maybe, but NOT two-hundred million....These numbers are wrong.
I think it is nonsense spewed by the Indian media. But it will cost a lot, so The One is in a jam if he tries to explain.
Unless we are paying the Indian government??
Thanks for the great pic.
0Dumobo and his dumb bike....
Re taxpayer: Did anyone think O was going to pay for it from his stash?
> Two million, maybe, but NOT two-hundred million....These
> numbers are wrong.
The 0bama entourage consists of 800 people, 40 airplanes, including both AF-1 as well as both Marine-1 ‘copters, which were disassembled for transit. Don’t know how many automobiles, but at least two presidential limos are going.
They have rented all 500+ rooms in the Taj Mahal Hotel, rates from $250 to $800+ per day.
The numbers are not wrong.
0bama is the most disgusting, most profligate, most arrogant, most narcissistic “president” by orders of magnitude.
No, they’re being widely reported elsewhere, it’s not mistaken. Remember: 700 FBI agents, hundreds of Secret Service agents, 40 jet aircraft, hundreds of WH staffers, hundreds of FOBs, hundreds of military personnel, hundreds of suites and rooms at Five Star hotels, gourmet meals, warships, etc., etc. I believe the numbers.
3,000 plus federal employees. $8.333 MILLION PER HOUR. My goodness that’s a lot of gas money!!!
I refuse to give one more thin dime.
When is he scheduled to return?
After India, he jets off to his old stompin’ grounds, Indonesia for some “Muslim Outreach.” I think that’s what the 700 FBI agents are for, to clean up any loose ends.
This is so extreme that it raised doubts in my own mind. Need a better accounting...but Rush said 3000 people were going. If this $200M is true, that means the whole trip is 2 BBBillion dollars.
Our girly man president plans retail therapy in the form of a vacation at our expense and gets out of Dodge as his policies are rejected and the Fed devalues our currency... WooHoo...
So Obama is taking his entire staff and posse out of the country. What does he know that we don’t?
Who would want to spend a week in D.C. while he is gone?
Where will Biden be? Hiding out in a cave. Pelosi is next in line.
There is something going on here. The kids weren’t supposed to go and now they are. Hundreds of federal employees leaving the country, 40 planes, the entire family. And Obama has the nuclear football.
I’m going to be watching where they have Biden and Pelosi.
Might be a good time to be out of the stock market and into precious metals. Brass and lead.
This was reported today by several US papers.
Who knows if it’s true.
This may be the very first rejection of his life. For someone used to getting his way all the time... the results of tonight are a devastation. Try to imagine it.
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