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Stossel on Obama travel expenses.

Tam

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$15 million to fly to Africa for Mandela Selfie Op.
$8 million to fly to Hawaii for Christmas, every Christmas and this winter Michelle stayed behind for an extra week on Barak's tab :wink:

$81 Thousand for flight to Aspen for Michelle and the girls to ski
another $64 thousand for room tab in Aspen.

The Obama girls have spent their Spring Break Mexico and Hawaii and we all know they did not get there on a commercial jet. as the Obama's dog doesn't even fly commercial. :x

It cost $2 million for Obama to go be on Leno and how many times has he AND MICHELLE took Air Force One to yuke it up with the Late night funny men? Not to mention the DNC fund raisers all over the country that were on the Tax payers dime. Oh and the Tiger Woods golf weekend how much did that cost tax payers?

So what do you think the last Obama women only trip cost to China to a $8400/per night hotel, that was not a official trip so No Press was allowed?

But during the shut down the US school students could visit the White House as there was not enough money to fund the security. The Vets could not visit an Open Air Memorial because Obama did not want them there.

Can you Liberals Please just to admit the travel the Obama are doing while the US tax payers are struggling is embarrassing and should be reined in?

And before you attack Bush, he flew to his home in TEXAS and Camp David not Hawaii where he would have had to rent a expensive resort home like the Obama's that have never vacationed in their home in Chicago. :x
 

Tam

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Broke Cowboy said:
Would YOU want to vacation in Chicago? LOL

One of the ranking gang murder capitals of the US of A

bc

What you mean he would not want to go home to the neighborhood he was a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER OF. :shock:

During his 2008 campaign he said his campaign team would not allow him to go in Hawaii due to the cost but now that he is President and the Tax Payers are picking up the tab, he can send his daughters there for Spring Break. :x And send a jet back to pick up his wife so she can have an extra week vacation for her birthday on him. Does anyone really believe he paid for her extra week in Hawaii? :roll:
 

Larrry

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Maybe if he had a Texas ranch that he could go for a working vacation the leftwingernuts could see to raise heck about his vacation
 
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Anonymous

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This argument about Presidents vacations/retreats has been ongoing for as long as I have been alive- and looks like it will not end soon...

I can remember my Dad, my uncles, and neighbors discussing, and some cussing Ike for all his golf vacations- and all the time he spent at Camp David (named for his son)...
Then someone would bring up FDR and all the time he spent at Warm Springs, Georgia...

President Obama’s back from Hawaii: How many vacations has he taken?


President Obama’s back from Hawaii: How many vacations has he taken?

Monday, January 7, 2013 - Ad Lib by Catherine Poe

WASHINGTON, January 7, 2013 — President Obama and the First Family returned to Washington on Sunday from their vacation in Hawaii and immediately we hear the age-old question: Why does he take so many vacations when he should be leading the nation in these difficult times?

For the pronoun he, substitute the name of any president.

No matter whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, you always think the President from the other party is enjoying himself too much while the rest of us are miserable and the country is in the toilet. Such partisan sentiments go with the job.


No matter that being the President of the United States ages a man (so far all of our presidents are men); just look at the greying of the current president.

We Americans always carp about down time for our president, even though it is probably the hardest, most stressful job in the world, one that rocks around the clock 24/7.

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan said it best: “Presidents don’t get vacations — they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you.”

So just how much vacationing has Obama done and how does he stack up with our past presidents?

President Obama in his first four years has taken 131 days, dividing his time between Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard and, of course, Camp David, the official get away of U.S. presidents. At this rate, he could hit 262 days by the end of his eighth year, about average for modern presidents.

He certainly is not the king of vacation days. That honor falls to President George W. Bush, who racked up 1,020 vacation days in his eight years in office, including one five-week vacation, the most of any president in 36 years. Not to say he wasn’t on the job when he was at his Crawford, Texas ranch, but he was away from the White House.


And if we compare days off in the first year alone, President Bush still nabs the honor with 69 vacation days, President Obama with 26 and President Clinton with 19.


So how do these two presidents stack up against their predecessors from President Washington through President Clinton?

Modern Presidents:


President Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Afflicted with polio, the president headed for Warm Springs, Ga., where he eased his discomfort with swimming and therapy, for 958 vacation days out of his 12 years in office. Quite a low number for a man so ill, who died of a heart attack in 1945 while still in office.

He did, however, utilize the presidential yacht for mini-get aways, which was anchored in the Potomac River, so he was never far from the White House.

President Dwight Eisenhower:

The president who suffered two heart attacks during his presidency loved to golf and when he wasn’t getting away to Camp David, he headed to Augusta, Ga. for golf as well as flying out to Denver, taking him out of Washington for only 222 days in eight years.

President John F. Kennedy: Not big on long vacations, JFK spent almost every weekend away in Palm Beach, Hyannis Port or the Virginia countryside. No official vacation days recorded.

President Lyndon Johnson: During his sojourn at the White House, he, like Bush 2, spent time at his Texas ranch, Camp Davis, for 484 days.

President Jimmy Carter: Georgia was the destination for still another president, but the Carters were away only 79 days out of four years, which is pretty extraordinary.


President Ronald Reagan: Another rancher, President Reagan would fly to Rancho del Cielo, his ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., spending 484 days there over eight years.

President George H.W. Bush: This president headed to the family compound in Kennebunkport, Me. for his get-aways for a total of 543 days in four years.

President Bill Clinton: Clinton liked vacationing by the ocean, probably because he was from land-locked Arkansas, but the workaholic was only vacationing 152 days during his eight years, primarily on Martha’s Vineyard and Long Island’s the Hamptons.


Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2013/jan/7/president-obamas-back-hawaii-how-many-vacations-ha/#ixzz2xE7iXgxy

A year old- but still gives you an idea where our current President stands in relation to past Presidents....
Maybe we should remember this and not elect someone from a place where it costs to travel to or from- like Hawaii or Alaska... :???:

Obama growing up in Hawaii slideshow:
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/slideshow?widgetid=75422
 

hypocritexposer

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"Bush rarely takes the type of vacation one would consider exotic -- or, to some, even appealing," the Post wrote. "His notion of relaxation is chopping cedar on his ranch or mountain biking through rough terrain, all in 100-degree-plus temperatures in dusty Texas where crickets are known to roast on the summer pavement. He seems to relish the idea of exposing aides and reporters to the hothouse environment."

Obama, on the other hand, has traveled to Hawaii every winter. The Obama daughters are vacationing at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas this week with a full Secret Service detail, as Breitbart News reported, even as the White House claimed they could not afford to pay Secret Service agents to continue the popular White House tours for other students who are on their spring vacations in Washington, D.C.

The Obamas have gone to Martha's Vineyard multiple times while the country was in recession and Americans were struggling to find jobs. Michelle Obama has taken a whirlwind trip to Spain and a ski trip to Aspen.

Obama took 13 vacations in his first term, which spanned all or part of 83 days. But they have been much more lavish than Bush's. His annual vacations to Hawaii alone have cost taxpayers at least $20 million during his first term. In 2011 alone, Michelle Obama may have cost taxpayers $10 million on vacations herself. Obama's fantasy golf outing this year cost local law enforcement in Florida a reported $78, 205.

Bush was content to work from home during his vacations. And for doing so, the mainstream media tagged him as lazy and disinterested. The Obamas gallivant around, making plenty of "time for fun," and the mainstream media does not call them out for wasting taxpayer dollars or even for the terrible "optics."

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/03/26/Obamas-Vacation-More-Lavishly-than-Bushes
 

Tam

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Oldtimer said:
Maybe we should remember this and not elect someone from a place where it costs to travel to or from- like Hawaii or Alaska... :???:

You can claim Barak grew up in Hawaii all you want Oldtimer but that does not change the fact his and Michelle's family home, the only home their daughters have ever own, besides the White House, is not in Hawaii or Martha's Vineyard where they rent very expensive resort homes, on the Tax payers tab, to vacation in. Their home, that a convicted Felon helped them out with so they could provide a big private yard for the girls, is on the main land, AS IN CHICAGO. A place I doubt Michelle has seen since she moved to the White House.

And Somehow I doubt if Palin from Alaska was elected, Todd would be taking their kids on countless sightsee trip all over the world on the tax payers dime and if he did I'm willing to bet you and the rest of the Libs would raise all kinds of hell about the waste just like you did when Bush flew to Texas. Somehow if was Bad for Bush to fly home to Texas but is it quite OK for your hero to fly his family all over the world in separate jets. :roll:
 

Steve

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Friday, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:08 PM EDT

President Obama is preparing for his third taxpayer funded vacation of 2014. After spending the Christmas and New Year’s holidays in Hawaii, the President flew to Southern California over President’s Day weekend to meet with King Abdullah II of Jordan and play a few rounds of golf at a posh estate. This latest trip will take the Obama family to the exclusive Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, Florida.

I think as of a few weeks ago Obama's golf outings was at about 164

if someone added up all the "donor" events.. golf,.. vacations.. you would see a president who is never a work..
 

Steve

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Obamas Made Hawaii Trip to Showcase Income Inequality

In what can only be described as a remarkable sacrifice for the public good, the Obamas’ extended vacation in Hawaii was staged entirely to showcase for the public what happens when you allow too much income inequality.

According to White House advisors close to the president – not close, as in standing next to him all the time, but who have a close relationship with him, at least professionally – the Obamas planned and executed their exorbitant excursion to Hawaii for no other reason than to show Americas how disgustingly well the disgustingly rich live and to drum up support for Obama’s agenda to close the income gap.

“The president and Mrs. Obama this year wanted to just take a three-day weekend at a Ramada Inn in Philadelphia,” said one White House source. “But they felt that, for the good of the country, they must head to Honolulu so people could understand what’s really going on with income inequality.

On the record, aides were more circumspect. “The president always stands ready to do what’s right for the American people, even if this involves some inconvenience and level of sacrifice on his part” said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.

To drive the point home, President Obama played golf nine times while in Hawaii. “I’m sick of golf. I’m not going,” Obama snapped as he was told by aides he must head out to the links for the ninth and final time.

The president then had to be restrained after smashing a vase of orchids with his putter, according to sources who were present at the time of the incident, which occurred in the billiards room of his rental home. But aides then calmed him down and convinced him he must shoot one last round – for the people’s sake.

Soon after playing, it was time to head home.

But Mrs. Obama, who is whispered to be the most forceful advocate within the White House of ending income inequality, believed that even after more than two weeks on vacation, the Obamas had not done enough. With time running out on their rental, Michelle volunteered to make the arduous journey from Oahu to Maui, where she would spend another nine days or so at the home of Oprah Winfrey.

Oprah’s pad was not her first choice, aides emphasized.

“She expressed a desire to stay at the Maui Motel 6, but we convinced her that the only way to truly make her point was to hang out with Oprah,” said a person close to Michelle. Again, not person close to Michelle like sitting at the same table with her or something, but close to her in that, you know, they talk.

According to several informed sources, Michelle is considering skiing this year in the Alps, believing that her annual trips to Aspen do not sufficiently showcase the lifestyles of the rich and famous for the benefit poor people.

Meanwhile, Obama next month will jet down to Florida again for golf lessons with Tiger Woods, and he plans to enhance this symbolic demonstration of the income gap with a practical step toward closing it by this time tipping the caddies.
 

Larrry

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ot's back to the old excuse "they all do it"

These leftwingernuts are amazing. Name one prez that has spent like obama
 
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