Posted on 02/17/2015 6:33:28 AM PST by COUNTrecount
A VERY expensive getaway: Obama family's separate weekend trips cost at least $2.5 million (...and why did Barack spend Valentine's golfing in California while Michelle went skiing in Colorado?)
President Barack Obama flew to California for a fundraiser and a speech He then spent the next three days playing golf at an exclusive resort At the same time Michelle Obama and Malia and Sasha were skiing in Aspen, Colorado New figures show that Air Force One costs $228,288 per hour to run As a result, the ten-hour return trip to California would cost almost $2.3m It is estimated that Mrs Obama's skiing trip cost a further $100,000 With accommodation and car rental, the weekend break would cost $2.5m
President Barack Obama cost the taxpayer an estimated $2.5 million after he and his family took separate weekend breaks.
President Obama spent Valentine's weekend in California, where he managed to squeeze in three rounds of golf at a California course owned by Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison.
Meanwhile, his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia flew to Aspen in Colorado for a skiing trip on board a separate presidential aircraft.
As President Obama enjoyed the California sun shine, his wife's jet was spotted in Aspen, Colorado
According to the White House, President Obama flew to San Francisco on Thursday afternoon where he had several events, before taking Saturday, Sunday and Monday off. He delivered a speech at a summit on cyber security before attending a round-table meeting with business leaders. His final official engagement of the weekend was a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee at the home of venture capitalist Sandy Robinson.
Guests paid $10,000 for dinner and a photograph with the president or $32,400 to co-chair the fundraiser.
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Eat cake, suckers!
WTF are we paying for separate vacations? This has got to stop. I don’t recall this happening with this degree of activity anytime in history.
Or garden... or sew, haha.
Commissars always get the best dachas.
Compared to how much he’s probably siphoned and stowed away from taxpayer funds thats probably just a drop in the bucket. Of course they don’t call it “theft” if they happen to be an officer of a shell company that receives a grant for green research and it just doesnt yield the type results they were paid for. Thats just the way green research is; hit or miss. They still get to keep the money.
Obummer sent Mooch and the rest of the family to Aspen so he could spend Valentine’s Day with Reggie.
Are we paying? LOL! Uh, unless moochie made a few million in cattle futures like someone else we know of, yeah, we’re paying. On second thought, even if she made a few mil, we’d still be paying. Why spend their money when they can spend ours? I’m pretty sure they didn’t use Expedia to book the trip.
"Sucka!"
Ah, but he deserves it. Slavery. The rodeo clown. Someone asked michelle to get an item from a top shelf. That’s the reason. Feel guilty ?
Obama has stashed billions away. He’s probably one of the richest men in the world now.
I agree. These folks are a bad example for blacks.
He maybe the first President to file for bankruptcy
Because Michelle likes then atmosphere in Aspen where she can be Queen Bee of the beautiful people and the Rich an Famous.
Obama likes the entertainment of Palm Springs which is golf and a very vibrant “Man's World” culture.
“The history of the present King ... is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.” excerpted from the Declaration of Independence.
We owes it to’s em.
Because the IRS will seize our assets and jail us if we don’t.
Don’t know many blacks? That “culture” thinks its great nobama is sticking it to whitey, even if they too are getting screwed by Soro’s boy.
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