Posted on 10/26/2016 2:04:13 PM PDT by jazusamo
A “boys’ weekend” of golf with Tiger Woods in 2013 was fun for President Obama, but it was a triple-bogey for taxpayers.
The Government Accountability Office reported Wednesday that the departments of Defense and Homeland Security spent more than $3.6 million in travel costs and other expenses for Mr. Obama’s getaway weekend with Mr. Woods and other golf partners at an exclusive resort in Florida.
The audit said the costs included operation of Air Force One, which costs about $200,000 per hour of flight, plus a virtual squadron of “supporting aircraft and U.S. Coast Guard small boats,” as well as per diem and other travel expenses for an unspecified number of Pentagon and DHS personnel required to support the president’s golf weekend.
The military transport aircraft needed for the golfing weekend included a $200 million C-17 Globemaster and the C-5 Super Galaxy, which departed from various U.S. Air Force bases and arrived at Joint Base Andrews or Marine Corps Base Quantico “to transport Secret Service personnel and vehicles and Marine Corps personnel and helicopters to support the trip before returning to their air bases of origin,” the report said.
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That’s some heavy greens fees
If Barack Hussein wanted to do long-lasting damage to the United States, he was certainly on the right track. Creating a "right" to gay marriage was a good start, and creating yet another "entitlement", this one to health care paid for by our neighbors was an extra dagger to the heart. Still, his biggest, longest-lasting betrayal of the American people came with the debt.
Borrowing $10T sucked capital out of the economy to destroy growth (although frivolous regulations helped there too), and saddling our children and grandchildren with crippling debt finished the job. My grandchildren haven't even been born yet, but their job prospects for 25-30 years from now are far worse than they would have been without Barack Hussein's destructive wastefulness.
Very well said, Pollster1.
Sadly we’re living in a country where a safe majority of people cannot see the long range consequences of this terrible debt build up.
Imagine how the media would have reacted if said President was named “W.”
He would have been hounded out of office and forced to resign.
Is this what’s going to happen every time Donald and Melania want to spend the weekend at Mar-a-Lago or National Doral?
Here lemme loan ya this “/S”
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