Posted on 08/17/2021 8:10:04 AM PDT by Hojczyk
President Joe Biden’s brief visit to the White House yesterday to deliver a speech blaming Afghan officials for the fall of their nation to the Taliban cost taxpayers at least $30,000.
The main added cost came from Marine One’s rushed round-trip from Camp David, where the president has been vacationing since last weekend.
The most recently produced Navy and Marine Corps budget documents showed that the hourly cost of flying Marine One, in this case, a VH-3D Sea King, is $28,524. The flight from Camp David to Fort Lesley J. McNair and back lasted at least an hour.
That charge, as noted in stories about former President Donald Trump’s Marine One usage, does not include the costs of getting Biden to and from the landing site.
The costs include fuel and maintenance but not personnel, according to a Rand study on the issue.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
As some might say, it could have been for free and it still would have cost too much.
It wasn’t a speech it was a blame fest punks do the a lot.
What a deal! I would have guessed 10x that amount.
I guess a live broadcast from the Camp David pool with Joe in his usual swimming attire was too much to ask?
The Federal Reserve has a hidden forest, where money grows on trees.
Biden sucks....Democrats dump this low life, brainless, buffoon or, go down with him!!! He is now widely hated by the American people & rightfully so!!!
Muh fossil fuels!
This is stupid. The gotchas of cost or vacation of a president is stupid. And it goes both ways. The president has to give a speech and it costs our government a million dollars for every breath the president takes even on the toilet. This is not news. Its not interesting. And its stupid.
That’s not even a rounding error in the White Hut budget.
I can think of one or two other things to fault him than his wasting 30K.
They.Are.Useless
It wasn’t worth 2 cents. Honestly, that Biden speech yesterday was perhaps the worst Presidential speech I’ve seen in decades. He didn’t address the one issue on people’s minds, the botched withdrawal. Then he blamed Trump, but at the same time said it was his own campaign promise. Then, he was incapable mentally of fielding questions. Truly a sad event to witness his decline.
What was the need to do it at the WH with the press pool, he didn’t take questions. Could have easily been done from Camp David.
Compare that to every 17 year old in the world posts a dozen videos on tik tok every day for free.
Am I the only person who thinks this “story” is just silly.
The Earth burns and the Media writes a story about it’s creating a Marshmallow shortage.
$30,000 “wasted” in an age of Two Trillion Dollar Yearly Deficits and a $30 Trillion Dollar National Debt, oh my.
That is what I do not understand. How come that he had to fly back to the White House to make a speech?
POTUS has made speeches from Camp David before.
There must be a special teleprompter that goes really slow for Ol Slo Joe to read from.
It is time for Red States to collect money the IRS would get and only send to DC money for a few thing...
The only way become a free country is get rid of almost all Federal Departments..
As if they’d want to show all the little kids pushing down the hair on his legs, in the pool.
I guess a live broadcast from the Camp David pool with Joe in his usual swimming attire was too much to ask?
rumor has it he swims naked so... um.. ya way to much to ask.
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