Obama, Biden, FLOTUS’ luxury personal vacation costs exposed by Judicial Watch

BizPac Review ^ | January 25, 2014 | Cheryl Carpenter Klimek

[12th_Monkey]

After nearly a year of stalling by the Obama administration, Judicial Watch has obtained the vacation travel records for the Obamas’ and Vice President Joe Biden’s 2013 President’s Day weekend excursions and Michelle Obama’s 2011 South African trip.

President Obama spent President’s Day weekend, Feb. 15-18, golfing in West Palm Beach, Fla., while the first lady and the girls enjoyed a ski trip to Aspen, Colorado, as did Biden.

Taxpayers picked up a tab which totaled $295,437.04 for the personal vacations, according to U.S. Secret Service records from the Department of Homeland Security obtained by Judicial Watch.A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch June 21, 2013, against the U.S. Secret Service found this in the billing records:

* Transportation and lodging costs for the president’s trip totaled $98,135.79. This includes $32,406.50 for the flights, $16,466.25 for rental cars, and $48,490 for hotel rooms.

* The vacation costs for first lady Michelle Obama totaled $81,523.64, including $13,221.30 in flights, $3,925 in rental cars, and $64,377.34 in lodging.

* The expenses for Vice President Biden’s weekend in Aspen totaled $115,777.61, including $5,315 in flights, $92,596 in accommodations, and $17,866.61 in rental cars.

The second group of documents obtained by Judicial Watch indicate that taxpayers paid more than $1,000,000 for Michelle Obama’s 2011 “safari” trip to South Africa and Botswana.

(please see the article for the rest of the tab we picked up)

[Jim Noble]

I presume that expenditures from the Treasury still require an appropriation by Congress, starting in the House of Representatives.

What the f***???

[12th_Monkey]

agreed.

[12th_Monkey]

without a doubt.

[12th_Monkey]

da ghetto crew goes to DC, yo!

[12th_Monkey]

Your right, GWB was either at Crawford or at camp david. I also seem to remember the press $h!tting themselves when Bush Sr. went to kennebunkport to fish.

Just another glaring double standard.

[12th_Monkey]

I bet the mooch and the brood will take a trip around the world before it’s all said and done.

[12th_Monkey]

biggest tab of all is the additional 7 billion he’s stuck us with

[12th_Monkey]

ummm, ooooookkkkkkk. your point being what??? that we should bow and curtsey for our “betters”

[MortMan]

These were the secret service related charges. The actual costs for AF1, I think, are not subject to FOIA. Secret Service billing is.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

They deserve a break. Destroying the country can be tiring.

[Marcella]

Monkey, you said: “All from the guy preaching income inequity. Still waiting for you and mooch to put some “skin in the game”” You said to me, “ummm, ooooookkkkkkk. your point being what??? that we should bow and curtsey for our “betters””

With a description of how first class ticket holders are treated, I was pointing out people with lots of money live differently and are treated differently than regular folks. You are waiting for Hussein and wife putting some “skin in the game”. They have moved into that upper class because they have seen how those with money live. They want to be in that privileged class so they spend our money to live that way. They want first class lives and they now have it with our money.

snowtigger and Jimmy Valentine pointed out how they were treated like more upper class people by changing the type clothes they wear at airports and on the plane. They changed their class by wearing clothes the upper class wear.

If all people were naked, they would be one class. If you pour money on some and not on others, the ones with money join together to become upper class and they will shun the ones with less or no money. That's what humans do.

Hussein and wife want to be in the first class ticket group now that they have been with the rich and experienced it and are using our money to live that way.

Again, my description of first class treatment was to point out there is a class who don't live like we do. They are not our “betters” but they ARE different in how they live.

I knew a lady with that kind of money, and she would not go to any restaurant unless it was highly rated and so expensive the common folk would not be there. She would not associate herself with anyone outside her “class”. That group does exist.

[Liz]

NRO tallied what taxpayers are paying for M/M O to live large on the taxpayers' dime: a grand total of $1.4 billion per year:

Air Force One ($181,757 per hour), executive chef ($100,000 per year), three full-time White House calligraphers ($277,050 per year for the trio), chief of staff to the president’s dog ($102,000 per year), Ohaha's royal motorcade ($2.2 million). $100 million alone for the African apology tour.

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$1.4 BILLION is the current annual cost of the White House — just in household expenses, not including US policy operations for which the WH exists-- administered by some 900 parasites--- policy staff recruited by Ohaha.

There's the $100 million trip to Africa not including the foreign aid billions O handed out to these oil-rich satraps. There's serial Ohaha vacations costing taxpayers millions---- (the low estimate Hawaii vacays is $4 million each, but is probably five times that); the pricey Martha's Vineyard stays; Mrs O's costly trip to elite Marbella w/ an entourage of 30.

Mrs O's $3900 PER NIGHT in Ireland PLUS 30 more rooms for her entourage.

Ireland's Grace Kelly hotel suite.

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TAXPAYERS SUFFERED RUINOUS HEALTHCARE CANCELLATIONS--BUT THEY PAY $7 MILLION FOR THE OBAMAS HEALTHCARE---NRO found the first family’s yearly health-care costs Americans $7 million; the reason why only Boobamba himself was "enrolled" last month --and not his family.

Mrs O wore her pricey diamond bangles (bought on a govt salary?) at a DNC fund-raiser, attended by "tolerant and compassionate" Dems....raised big bucks to keep Mr O in office so he could work for "the poor." Her diamond Gothic cuff priced at $15,350 set with 2.17 carats in diamonds and the Quatrefoil bracelet at $11,800 set with 1.73 carats in diamonds. (Excerpt) Read more at houston.culturemap.com.

Mrs O wowed all the "tolerant and compassionate" Dems who hate the rich and support endless tax-paid programs "for the poor."

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Mrs O has 24 assistants at her beck and call.
Her wardrobe, nails and hair are subsidized w/ US tax dollars.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I doubt this includes the cost of AF1. I presume it imputes a first class ticket cost, as the President is required as a condition of his employment to use AF1 for air travel, whether or not he wants to.

[Atlas Sneezed]

You describe first class well. Not all are quite as you describe, and it doesn’t take piles of money.

~125,000 credit card points (you can buy these for $4000) is all it takes. And you can get 50,000 just for signing up.

[12th_Monkey]

So in a nutshell, the Obama’s are snobs. Already knew that.

[Marcella]

“So in a nutshell, the Obama’s are snobs. Already knew that.”

No, they are TRYING TO BE SNOBS ON OUR MONEY.