Posted on 05/03/2014 12:50:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The White House spent $2,952,278 in flight expenses this year for two trips President Barack Obama took on which he spent a large chunk of his time playing golf.
Obama billed both trips as official business, but he spent more time golfing than he did participating in government meetings, government oversight organization Judicial Watch reports.
The conservative organization obtained the cost of Obamas Air Force 1 trips through Freedom of Information Act requests. The cost per flying hour of the presidents plane is $210,877, the Department of the Air Force told Judicial Watch.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
About five days old per the Judicial Watch article.President Obama racked up close to $3 million in flight costs this year on two trips he billed as business but spent playing golf
The Clintons were minor league chiselers compared to Moochelle and Husseins grifting and theft from the taxpayers
Be thankful freedom of the press exists somewhere in the world (UK)
>> The Clintons were minor league chiselers...
It gets worse with each installment of Leftism.
Would love to see them one day with a shoppingcart full of refundables living in a card board box under a free way, justice served, a wish for many in DC
1. a dish of sweetened and flavored curds of milk, often served with fruit.
2. < informal>
an extravagant trip or celebration, in particular one enjoyed by a government official at public expense.
synonyms: excursion, outing, spree, trip, jaunt;
These charges are getting tiresome.
Are these expenditures the result of appropriations passed by the House of Representatives, or are they not?
Ha! I racked up $75 in fuel costs to fly my Piper Comanche one hour to play golf with my son.
I think I will bill congress if that is the trend now for golf expenses.
sounds like he, and his beard, have benefitted personally from perks on the job.
did he claim the financial cost of these benefits as income?
Surely he could have done this without benefit of AF1 (or any other plane). And, it would have been far less expensive.
I'll settle for seeing them in orange jumpsuits behind razor wire.
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