That would be funny if it wasn’t so accurate.
I feel sick.
The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) released a report on Sunday titled “Presidential Calendar: A Time-Based Analysis” that analyzes how Barack Obama spends his time as president.
The report examines “how much time President Barack Obama has spent in economic meetings of any kind, Presidential Daily Briefs (PDBs), and personal recreation (vacations and golf outings).”
The data collected by the GAI reveals that Obama has spent more than twice as much time golfing (976 hours) as he has in meetings about the economy (474.4 hours) over the course of his administration up to March 31, 2013.
The report’s key findings include:
President Obama has spent 3.6% of his total work time in economic meetings or briefings of any kind (assuming a six day, 10-hour a-day workweek) throughout his presidency
President Obama has spent a total of 474.4 hours (or 47.410-hour workdays) in economic meetings or briefings of any kind throughout his presidency
In 2013, President Obama has spent 6 total hours in economic meetings of any kind
The number of days with some sort of economic meeting have declined significantly throughout President Obama’s time in office.
Throughout 2009, President Obama had 140 days with economic meetings. By 2012, the number of days with a scheduled economic meeting decreased to 29 (an 79% decrease)
President Obama has attended a total of 645 PDBs (intelligence briefings) since taking office (42.1% of the 1532 days we reviewed)
Throughout his time in office, President Obama has played 115 total rounds of golf and spent 86 days on vacation, for an estimated combined total of 976 hours.
Obama has taken criticism for the amount of time he spends vacationing as well as how much it costs for the First Family to do so, costing tax payers millions of dollars each time, and as the above information shows, they vacation quite a bit.