Posted on 05/30/2009 8:42:47 PM PDT by kristinn
The King and Queen of America went on a date in New York City tonight. Unlike other couples, Barack and Michelle Obama's night on the town cost the American taxpayer upwards of a miilion dollars.
While there is a chance Barack paid for their dinner and theater tickets, it is a certainty that taxpayers were hit up for the massive costs of a presidential movement that involved three Gulfstream jets, cargo planes to preposition Marine helicopters, presidential limousines and other motorcade vehicles, travel, hotel and per diem costs for Secret Service advance teams, background checks on the restaurant and theater employees, manning security perimeters, maintaining checkpoints and conducting counter-terrorism and counter-espionage measures for the trip.
According to news reports this was King Obama's first visit to New York since his coronation last January. Normally, presidents will schedule at least one official act or meeting to justify a trip like this. It is pretty much unheard of for a president to joyride around the country for a night out on the the town.
But Obama fancies himself a king, and his wife a queen. It was just a few months ago when the Obama White House criticized corporate executives for flying private jets and spending corporate dollars on expensive conferences in cities like Las Vegas while their companies were being bailed out by the federal government.
Obama's government itself is being bailed out to the tune of trillions of dollars yet King Obama does not believe that he should abide by the laws he lords over others to obey.
Spendthrift hypocritical kings tend to lose their crowns. Impeachment or forced resignation could be the future of this royal couple if they carry on living like Kings and Queens on the sweaty labor of the American worker.
It sure makes a lot of us good Americans desperate for jobs for our families bitter. He has the opportunity to take in plays in DC. He can ask for performances privately in the White House. Why does he need to FLY to NYC? He had a big night in L.A. He’s got something BIG going nearly every night of the week; he really must think he is king. And I don’t even see any Noblesse Oblige. He wants what he wants, and the people be damned.
Where is the breast belt and fancy sneakers?
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No sneakers tonight, just Jimmy Choo Lantern d’Orsay Pumps- Price tag- $585.00.
Well, if MichelleMaBelle were any sort of First Lady, she would have gracefully and generously declined King Barry’s offer to take her to the big city until a time when it would be more appropriate.
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She’s a hideous pig and I’m not giving up a piece of my pie. She and her floppy eared smelly pig of a husband can KMA. Let her give up her pie.
Judge Horace
Don’t cry for me....
Hey, lighten up.
His Magnificence King Baraq wants us to combine trips to save energy and reduce irreversible damage to the environment.
By stopping off at AC on the way to New York he was doing just that, and setting a good example for his subjects.
Long live the King!
Hello-oh!
This is Michelle you're referring to. She does not know how to dress by herself. If she had to change someplace, she'd have to bring her entire staff to help her.
Let's see:
- "We can't drive our SUVs", but he thinks Air Force One is "a spiffy ride"
- Can't "eat as much as we want", but dines on $100/lb wagu beef.
- Can't "keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times", but has the heat in the White House turned up, because "He's from Hawaii and likes it warm enough to grow orchids."
He's also called for "shared sacrifice", but he
- Puts his kids into the best of private schools, while making it harder for anyone else to do the same.
- Took himself and Michelle at taxpayer expense to Chicago for a Valentines Day dinner.
- Goes for a night on the town in New York City, also on the taxpayer's dime.
Wading through the alphabet soup of American governmental plans to save the private banks and their uber private bank, the Federal Reserve, one can only come to a single conclusion: since day one of the crisis, indeed, from the very creation of the bubble that could and would only lead to the crisis, this has been only about stealing every single kapeky of the people's money, their rights and powers and has been orchestrated by both branches of the One Party Two Branch system of American body politics. As I stated in The Hypocrisy of American "Democracy" and in Whom Does the US Congress Serve, the American public is living in a serious state of denial, the English along with them, if they for a second believe that their government has their best interest in mind, on paper or even as a fuzzy conception.
It is impossible for this author to accept that the heads of American and thus much of the world's finance did not know that the loose money, low interest policies and the absolute lack of any lending standards, would not lead to a bubble. Further, as the bubble grew and the few Casandra's issued their calls, it is again, impossible for this author to believe that again, these masters of national and international finance had no idea that the bubble would explode and lead to total collapse. Only an uneducated and naive fool, the general body of the Anglosphere public, was absolutely clueless.
Furthermore, as the implosion got underway and all signals pointed to nothing but an absolute route, it is again, impossible for the author to believe that the most obvious solution was unknown and other solutions that would only insure the collection of trillions in dollars and debt, in the hands of the few greedy men about whom Woodrow Wilson lamented in his 1919 autobiography, would not occur.
The stated goal of all of these bogus thefts, excuse me, bailouts, has been:
1. the stabilization of the banks
2. the release of credit
3. the salvation of the economy and thus of the body citizenry
To this end, nothing has been accomplished but the absolute theft of $2-4 trillion dollars, depending on how one looks at the promises and obligations of the members of the One Party Two Branch system in DC to their owners in the Federal Reserve and Wall Street. That there has been no substantial change in any of the policies of either the Bush or Obama administrations, only upholds the basic fact of this theft. As I stated in The Six Evils of Wall Street and the Suffering of Humanity, the owners of the Federal Reserve, the masters of much of the hell unleashed upon humanity of the past 120 years, have practiced their art of theft very well indeed. Their last, up to this, most successful enterprise, was the rape of Russia, but even that, in comparison, to the schemes in America, is chump change.
If the goal was actually to accomplish these three points, as stated over and over and preached to the world, then the answer is quite simple. Please note, I, myself, do not subscribe to mass rescues and bailouts but to a strongly regulated, fair and flat inner market (please never confuse this with Free Trade, of which I am neither a prominent, nor lover off, but in fact a staunch enemy). Now the simple an intelligent thing to do, if the order of the day is to spend trillions, is to: one, set a dead line date, after which strict market regulations will go into effect, specifying the minimum criteria of loan generation. Second, investigations into criminal wrong doing should be launched and carried through on all banks involved, on insurance companies, and on scoring agencies. Lastly, all house mortgages, which are primary residences, should have been simply bought out by the government. That is correct, the government pays off the debt in one fell sweep and gives the certificate of ownership to the individual mortgage holders.
In effect, this saves the banks by wiping out their toxic assets (not to mention, all other holders of such debt), saves all the people who are in their homes and provides $500-$3,000 per month in each home owner's pocket to "stimulate" the economy of his or her choice. At the same time, strict legislation keeps this from happening again.
That the brightest minds of finance and the body politic could not or would not see this humble and simple and straight forward answer as the key answer, shows simply that this whole crisis is a rigged game, a final grab of all available wealth to an uber .5% and the 99.5% all be damned. And the reaction of the American public? Well, as I described in American Capitalism, Gone with a Whimper little more then the grumbling and desperate self delusion of a lost, misguided slave dreaming dreams of his uniqueness and freedom. A fool's desperate escape into flights of fantasy and distraction.
That there will never be a revolution or upheaval in the American lands, is beyond a doubt. The American people have neither the whits, the internal fortitude, nor the drive to suffer and sacrifice for their own and society's greatest good against their owners and betters. The ineffectual "tax payer" revolts, known as the tea parties, are nothing shy of a joke and most of the world must be laughing. One French protest march in Paris encompassed more people, in a nation of 1/4th the American population, then all of these hundreds of mini "revolts" combined, even if you multiply their sum total by a factor of 10. Is it really any surprise that Lenin stands proudly, towering in downtown Seattle, while his spiritual forefather sits upon a giant marble monument in DC, a white washed dictator named Lincoln?
To my Holy Motherland, I will say only what I said before: Russia Must Offer the World a Different Ideology and as such, be in the position to receive into her bossom those few of the Anglosphere peoples, those refugees from slavery, who show a will to fight the Marxist enslavement, that Russia herself threw off almost twenty years ago.
-http://mat-rodina.blogspot.com/
Har!
Gibbs (me): "The president has revisited that criticism and has come to the conclusion that his original position does not apply in this situation but he is still contemplating the nuances. I will get back to you on this."
She looks like a variable diameter barbed hose fitting. In custom black finish.
Next week they can go to the Louvre to view his favorite painting, the Coronation of Napoleon.
I see that Barry has thet ‘Abamadinijad’ open-collar look going for him.
Whadda slime-ball.
I’m with you. Doesn’t this clown ever look like a President?
The dress looks like something out of a 1960s era “beach” movie with Anette Funicello and Frankie Avalon
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