Posted on 06/24/2013 9:03:24 AM PDT by blam
Latest Obama Outrage - First Family's $100 Million Vacation Trip!
Politics / US Politics
June 24, 2013 - 12:36 PM GMT
By: Money Morning
Frank Marchant writes: How much do you spend on your summer vacation? American households usually spend about $1,200 per person on summer vacations, according to a recent American Express survey.
Presidents spend more on their vacations than you or I. They have to. Air Force One and security does cost more than loading the Honda and heading to the beach.
Here's how much some recent presidents spent our tax dollars on vacation.
Ronald Reagan spent most of his free time at his California ranch. Taxpayers covered the cost of approximately $8 million for presidential travel during Reagan's first six years in office, according to the Los Angeles Times. That amounts to $1.3 million a year.
For George Bush the cost of flying Air Force One to his Texas ranch was approximately $56,800 per trip, for each of the 180 trips according to Media Matters. President Bush spent Christmas during his two terms at the White House so his staff and secret service could spend the holiday with their family, according to Conservative Byte.
Now Obama plans to blow away all previous presidents' leisure travel costs on our dime with a better than Disney World extravaganza trip to Africa.
However Obama had to cancel the safari because of the need to fill the surrounding jungle with snipers to guard the president from wild animals!
The trip will cost upwards of $100 million, the highest cost for any presidential vacation since Bill Clinton spent $50 million for a single vacation and it wasn't to Arkansas.
The Obama vacation will require a hospital ship stationed near their resort in case anyone needs medical attention, 14 limousines, aircraft and an additional 56 support vehicles. The cost for protecting a president is enormous.
Even so $100 million is a lot of money and I wondered just how far it would go were it spent on disadvantaged children who in their lifetimes might never have taken a single vacation. It's a wonderful thing to take a vacation. I hope the Obama's enjoy theirs.
The cost to send an impoverished child to camp for a week is around $100.00.
My figures came from the NAACP's website. From this I calculate that for the same price spent on this one Obama vacation almost all of the children in the District Of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Delaware, Connecticut, Vermont and Obama's home state of Hawaii could be sent to camp for a week.
At a time when so many have had to tighten their belts to make ends meet and many have lost jobs and homes, why can't the president just enjoy Epcot Center with his family.
The sequester ended White House tours. The average American worker has faced layoffs, poor economic growth, and a sinking economy.
When combined with Obama's recent scandals, which have created a lack of trust in the IRS, NSA and the government, I wonder if this is the best time to spend so much money on a lavish vacation.
Why isn't the media outraged?
Oh that's right, they get to go to Africa too.
Right, he went those places in consideration of spending and stress on his staff and SS.
now that’s funny-
This might be why, they aren’t exactly excited about seeing BO.....
A call for Obamas arrest and prosecution:
The Muslim Lawyers Association (MLA) in Johannesburg has submitted a 600-plus page document to the Office of the National Director of Public Prosecution ......calling for the arrest and prosecution of President Barack Obama when he visits South Africa later this month.
The submitted document calls for authorities to “arrest Obama when he visits.”
He’s afraid there will be too many “Welcome Home” signs in Kenya.
It will be interesting to see how he will suddenly change itinerary should Mandela not recover. He’d love to be the center of attention there.
Funny?
Will O also apologize for his big buck Hollywood donors---for making those infantile jungle pictures?
Bare-chested grunting African males in adult diapers and zany headdresses carrying demeaning props like spears and billy clubs.
Not to mention the perennial stereotype---Step'n Fetchit.
No REAL communist/socialist would dare take a vacation like this. They have self-examination sessions where you have to sit in front of your peers and confess your sins....er....I mean.....bourgeois tendencies. His buddies would eat him for lunch and send him to a work camp that he would never come back from. And he knows that. He’s just a dirty thief. He’d be doomed with the communists.
It eventually caught up with the Ceausescu's.
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Well, this typical household just spent about $1200 to send me to a family get-together. To bring along the kids and Mrs WBill wouldn't have been 4x that, but it would have been a fair bit of change. Just airfare would have eaten up a good bit of the budget.
And, I didn't have my own private AF1, with a hospital ship attending me. I flew coach (its been awhile, security was a joy as always), stayed at the cheapest place I could find and rented the 'econo-class' car to get me around.
We all decided that I'd represent the family at this shindig (it was a small but important memorial service), then we'd all do something more affordable later this summer. But - to get to my point, eventually .... I could see $4800 worth of vacation for a family of four, pretty easily.
Now, IF the family actually HAS the money, is a whole 'nother story. :-)
It always does. But, you sure can live big for awhile. Human nature always overcomes communism.
Did they survey anyone outside of Grosse Pointe?
Thanks Liz. Enlightening posts, from you, on this thread.
We will never rid ourselves of these parasites sucking the juice of life from our beloved America.
What to do, what to do?
The Obamas simply make no intellectual or moral connection between their lavish spending and the financial struggle of Americans. They have no respect or gratitude for the enterprise of American people.
They are rulers and due the fruits of the country’s labor, evidenced by the oppressive restrictions, the control over every facet of American life and the demonization of historic traditions and sensibilities.
The American people never raise a whimper when a Democrat takes a big trip at taxpayer expense. They say he works hard and deserves the time off. If a Republican goes off on his own dime, the American people say he lacks compassion and spends foolishly on unnecessary things. The American people are the culprits.
To paraphrase the late Roman Hruska, R-NE, the American people think that even parasites deserve representation.
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