Our president spent three million dollars on a trip to Denmark and all we got was this lousy orange T-shirt?
Posted on 10/02/2009 5:12:24 PM PDT by Justaham
CBS's Mark Knoller crunches the numbers.... cbsnews The White House billed the trip as an "official" journey, so taxpayers picked up the costs for the slightly more than 14-hour round trip on Air Force One.
The Defense Department pegs the operating costs for the president's 747 at $100,219 per flight hour. Double it to include the backup plane that always accompanies the president. Add the costs of the Air Force 757 that Mrs. Obama used to fly to Copenhagen earlier in the week. It adds up to nearly $3-million dollars.
And that doesn't include the aircraft used to fly the presidential limousines and Secret Service vehicles there as well.
$100,219 an hour to fly Air Force One, 14 hours for Obama's round trip...
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It’s for the children and a huge sacrifice...
Probably another $500K in extra security
You need to factor in support staff, Secret Service, advance men, planning, logistics.
I heard it was probably closer to $10 million.
And someone needs to calculate the carbon footprint left behind to ferry two people independently to the same event halfway across the world.
put that with the “private” 100 million Chicago sunk into it......all in all...coming in 4th in a 4 horse race...
ayyyy not good
Our president spent three million dollars on a trip to Denmark and all we got was this lousy orange T-shirt?
The carbon footprint doesn’t matter because the Obamas are good Democrats. They buy carbon credits. Only Republicans and conservatives produce dreaded carbon emissions because “evil” Republicans don’t buy carbon credits.
If I was a Factory Worker who lost his or her job 72 weeks ago due to the Socialist takeover of America, I would take up a campaign to defeat these cretins ASAP. Out of benefits with absolutely no where to go.
Next story: “eBay swamped with sales of Chicago 2016 memorabilia.”
...Hope all these folks got back to work to pick up their paychecks, and a pink-orange slip, Yer fired...
And Chicago is reported to have spent $100 million on their bid. No doubt BO will bail them out.
The list, ping
Buying those 18 votes (out of 94) was really, really expensive!
The socialists took over on May 16th, 2008?
What's the complete total for BOTH of them - since they made seperate trips.
Hopefully he got something out of it. Maybe he flew past the Statue of Liberty for some beauty shots on the way.
I saw a post a couple of weeks ago on F.R. that I can’t shake since then.
This is like watching the Jefferson’s TV show of the 70’s and listening to the “Movin’ on up” theme song.
These people are freakin’ clueless, but having a grand time and enjoying the good life while going thru the motions on the taxpayer dollar.
beat me to it! Great minds think alike.
LOL! And great minds DO think alike. It happens to me here all the time.
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