Posted on 01/07/2014 7:11:00 AM PST by C19fan
When President Barack Obama suggested that his wife should spend extra time in paradise as an early birthday present, he was committing U.S. citizens to pay for the gift, whose costs will likely spiral into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The White House conceded on Monday that the federal treasury will foot the bill to fly First Lady Michelle Obama back to Washington, D.C. on a separate government aircraft after she finishes her extended vacation at the palatial 12-bedroom Hawaii home of talk show legend Oprah Winfrey. Dedicated vehicles, Secret Service costs, and security sweeps of the Winfrey estate on Maui will add considerably to the total tab. A Fox News Channel reporter asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Monday to clarify who would get the bill for Mrs. Obama's travel, and the spinner landed on taxpayers.
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Michelle probably caught Barry with Reggie Love and negotiated some time away from the fraud.
I’ve got to give it to Oprah, if I had her money I’d picked the same places to live. Santa Barbara and Maui...not too shabby. Chicago she can have.
I hope the Wook is having a good time on our dime.
It’s called reparations.
Mauians overwhelmingly voted for these people in both elections . It serves them right that they are being soaked for their own tax dollars to support this little soire of uber wealthy divas at this time . Oprah however , needs to move back to Attala Co. and do something for her own people . She fits in Maui like a square peg in a round hole .
I feel, someday, there’ll be an accounting.
Reparations.
Livin large and gettin paid.
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