OMG.
On behalf of the United States, I want to apologize to India for the sheer wastefulness and arrogance of Obama’s Billion Dollar visit - and his royal retinue of 3000 courtiers.
Just send them the money and keep Obama home.
Isn’t this going to be a 10 day trip? 2 billion dollars??? Yet another “let them eat cake moment”.
bmp
Precisely why it's important to go to India.
Think of a CEO doing this.. the left would be up in arms..
Let’s put this in the proper perspective...how many people accompanied the president in the past 30 years?
Good news for the Indian lobster industry. Michelle’s coming.
Economic stimulus for India.
Wow. At the very least I hope they catch a stomach bug. 200 effing million a day. Congress needs to cut presidential funds as one of their first acts. This guy spends other peoples’ money like nothing. Time to defund the imperial presidency.
Is Obama buying India?
This is more money than we paid for the Luisianna Purchase and Alaska combined.
Disgusting! The Obama’s are making sure they “Get Theirs” before they are booted out of office in 2012....
They booked every room in the Taj Mahal Hotel. And that probably does not even cover the whole group.
Tea Party Nation Reports-
“In the era of Obama, mind-boggling spending is unfortunately, no longer mind-boggling. But this is extreme, even by Obama standards.
The cost of Obama’s trip to Mumbai is going to be $200 million, per day!
That is not $200 million for the trip. That is $200 million a day. He is going to have 40 Air Force aircraft, including both 747 aircraft that we typically know as Air Force One. Other aircraft are support aircraft needed to fly in three Marine helicopters (Marine One) for the President. There will be six limousines, plus presumably other vehicles for the Secret Service detail. According to press reports, there will be a party of three hundred with him. Some reports simply call them friends of his, in which case, the actual entourage would be much larger as that would not include the President’s support staff, First Lady’s support staff, etc.
While million of Americans are out of work, he is going to get an all expense paid trip, with his family to the Taj Mahal. I am sure there are a lot of Americans who would like to see that wonder too. The difference is, we have to pay for it.
Speaking of paying for it, the Christmas season is approaching. Obama has famously said he does not buy his children Christmas presents. There are a lot of Americans who would like to buy their children Christmas presents this year, but will not be able to because they are out of work. Yet Obama can blow almost a billion dollars on a junket. A billion dollars of taxpayers’ money.
Oh, and while in India, Michelle is going to meet with commercial sex workers. She could do that in Washington. Come to think of it, can anyone tell curious Americans what it is about this trip that is so special? Is there anything about this trip that could not be accomplished by the American ambassador to India? Or something that could not be accomplished by a phone call?
Of course, Obama wants to act like an emperor. He does not care what the cost is, as long as he gets to spend money.
Perhaps he will be tuning into the election results tonight. He should, since the American people telling him what they think tonight.”
NOW what can we do to stop the trip? Create grid lock at the Airport, Cause Air Traffic Control Walk out, Pilot/s Boycott flights? I don’t know but I am p!!sed.
Once again President Obama will be acting stupidly.
What do you bet the ink is still wet on those $100 bills?
I wonder if the $200 million/day figure includes tips.
What do you bet the ink is still wet on those $100 bills?
I wonder if the $200 million/day figure includes tips.
My tuned in friend hasn’t even HEARD about this trip!!!