Posted on 03/11/2013 8:28:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
As Carol touched on yesterday, while the White House keeps its doors closed to the people under the guise of "devastating sequestration," First Lady Michelle Obama is preparing for her glitzy 50th birthday party with performances by Adele and Beyonce. Although the party is being touted as private and therefore paid for by the Obamas, taxpayers will still have to foot the bill for secret service and other accommodations at the White House for the event. Meanwhile, President Obama just held a fancy dinner for Republicans just six blocks away from the White House and of course he took his massive motorcade to get there.
Charles Cooke over at NRO has tallied up the total for the Obamas' cost of living in the White House: $1.4 billion per year.
The executive mansion is not in that much trouble, of course. It’s certainly not in sufficiently dire straits for Air Force One ($181,757 per hour) to be grounded, or to see the executive chef ($100,000 per year) furloughed, or to cut back on the hours of the three full-time White House calligraphers ($277,050 per year for the trio), or to limit the invaluable work of the chief of staff to the president’s dog ($102,000 per year), or to trim his ridiculous motorcade ($2.2 million). If Ellen DeGeneres wants another dancercize session or Spain holds another clothing sale, the first family will be there before you can say “citizen executive.” Fear ye not, serfs: Austerity may be the word of the week, but the president is by no means in any danger of being forced to live like the president of a republic instead of like a king.
The current annual cost of the White House — just in household expenses, not the policy operations for which it exists — is $1.4 billion: Annually, presidential vacations cost $20 million (the low estimate for one presidential vacation to Hawaii is $4 million, but the true cost is probably five times that); the first family’s yearly health-care costs are $7 million; more than $6 million is spent on the White House grounds each year. Transporting the president cost $346 million last year. But as Michelle Obama might say, America is basically a downright mean sort of place, so the tours will just have to go. One hopes at least that the calligraphers were recruited to sign the docents’ pink slips.
So there you have it folks. While the White House has given out talking points to every federal agency telling them to make sequester as painful as possible through canceling meat inspections, forcing long delays at the airport and releasing thousands of criminal illegal aliens into the streets of America, the Obamas are planning their next vacation at the expense of the American people.
Last week Sean Hannity and Eric Bolling of Fox News offered to pay for at least one week of White House tours, a cost of $74,000. No word yet on whether the White House will take them up on their offer.
The Worst First Couple Ever.
IIRC Beezle was worth about $3mil when he took office.
A lot of money but not enough to spend frivolously.
I contend there is no way he could afford to live as large as he an Mooch do and claim to be paying for all the ‘private’ expenses as he’s supposed to do.
Liberals never pay for anything themselves, and that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and his Moochelle aren’t any different
Yeah, I heard that too, but I went by the number in the picture
[[I might warn that if someone gets caught throwing anything over the White House fence they face a long time in jail if they aren’t shot.]]
And those caught throwing tea into the bay were seen as derisionists too-
They coudkl leave the cake on the outside of the fence along with 1000’s of signs stating “Thanks Mr and Mrs President- but we’d rather have enough money to buy oil, gasoline, food than to eat the cake you’ve so graciously told us to eat while you party it up on OUR Money!”
For 4 years these grifters have been living it up off our money, while telling us how to eat, soon they will be telling us how to die—under Obamacare.
Yeah, but no one was guarding the ship.
True- just watched an old movie abotu Cuba and the attempts at revolution way way back in time (Before Gue) and at the beginning of them ovie, it ran a blurb abotu how dictators coem to power and the steps are
Squash the press
destroy the people’s voice
Hang their spirits
Reduce htem to poverty and beggary
Make them wholly dependent on handouts while drivign them to complete dispair so that they remain in beggary
And that is almsot exactly what’s goign on today (Hence why they tried enstating hte ‘fairness doctrine’ when it comes to the press- which of course was anythign but fair-) They tried desperately to kill free press on the right, and they continue tryign to destroy free speech when it coems to morality, God, and so on- All while they spend this country into oblivion- Presidents apparently are now spending a coupel of billion dollars durign hteir terms just on their own pleasures while seniors and dissabled and underprivileged throguh no fault of their own can’t even properly feed themselves? This country is going off the cliff- and NOONE in washington gives a crap
Politicians are rich and entitled.
They do not know how the rest of us live and they don’t care. All they care about is winning the next election.
Especially the ones who have been there a long time.
There should be a forced retirement age of 70 for politicians.
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