Posted on 05/29/2014 10:24:17 AM PDT by PoloSec
Records newly obtained by officials with Judicial Watch revealed on Thursday that lodging, security and “entertainment” for the Obamas’ entourage during their trip last year to Africa cost taxpayers nearly $2.2 million.
“The Obamas clearly either do not understand the value of a dollar – or understand it all too well when someone else is picking up the tab,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
“Keep in mind that this outrageously lavish excursion came at the very same time that the president was shutting down White House tours and blaming it on the sequester. As one congressional critic noted at the time, the White House could have 1,350 weeks of tours for the cost of the Obama family’s trip to Africa.”
Earlier documents obtained by Judicial Watch said the flight expenses for the family’s African outing totaled more than $8.1 million.
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So, how much did Bush spend on his Africa trips?
Let's see if you have facts or just ejaculate from your mouth like a fool.
Seriously? Do you think you can find the real numbers from the media? Wow. Really you are on the wrong site. Good day to you.
Yes, it’s the crap they were pulling with the sequester, deliberately hurting ordinary Americans for political purposes while at the same time taking an overseas vacation that makes this outrageous.
You must be familiar with the St Louis Federal Reserve Web-site.
They have an inflation calculator—just type in the amount and the date and you get equivalent current dollar cost.
Not that most people could care less. 10.00 an hour in 1975 was 43.20 an hour two years ago.
As I expected.....you have feces from mouth disorder.
Yup. I live under the bridge between the clamorous mobs and reasoned conservatism. It's my job to keep idiots from passing over the bridge. Neither you or those skinny billy goats with you shall pass.
BUSH DID NOT SHUT DOWN VETERANS MEMORIALS, WHITE HOUSE TOURS, ect., ect.,!!!! George and Laura NEVER took separate
vacations and MOST of their vacations WERE at their ranch!!!!!
:)
Hope they enjoyed it. Eternity will be less pleasant for them.
Obama was told going in that if he would take their offer and become a puppet president that he would live like a king now and forevermore. All he had to do is to do what he was told, say what he was told to say and stay out of bathhouses. He was the perfect candidate, no background, no smarmy accomplishments, no moral fiber and a dedicated somewhat blackish Marxist/Muslim to boot. His actions unexpected? Not!
Furthermore, look at that PROFESSIONALLY PRODUCED sign. Those take a few weeks to procure. . .so it was likely ordered in early September, long before the Shutdown. .
Judicial Watch noted: “According to numerous press accounts, the total cost of the Obama family trip was estimated to have cost between $60 million and $100 million.”
Earlier this month, the Washington Examiner reported two golf outings for Obama – to Key Largo, Fla., and to Palm Springs, Calif. – cost a total of $2.9 million.
There also was a recent report that the White House incurred taxpayer expenses of $7.9 million to fly the Obamas to Northern Ireland for a summit that included an extra $251,000 for Michelle Obama and their two daughters to go sightseeing in Dublin.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/obamas-partied-like-kings-on-africa-vacation/#ioGZkup4j354Bv5D.99
The 2012-2013 Christmas vacation cost taxpayers – for travel alone – nearly $4.1 million. The expenses for Obama’s trip to be on the Leno show were $2.1 million, and the Martha’s Vineyard trip cost $1.1 million.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/obamas-partied-like-kings-on-africa-vacation/#ioGZkup4j354Bv5D.99
The Daily Mail in the United Kingdom has highlighted “$10 million” in public money Michelle Obama has spent on her “vacations.”
Sasha and Malia Obama even have been listed as “Senior Staff” when they travel at taxpayer expense.
I could excuse his 2008 election as just another stupid mistake Americans sometimes commit, but then correct (like Jimmy Carter).
But the reelection, that demonstrated that basic American values were now alien to a majority of the U.S. electorate.
“Obama was told going in that if he would take their offer and become a puppet president that he would live like a king now and forevermore. All he had to do is to do what he was told, say what he was told to say and stay out of bathhouses.”
Plus, if he behaved himself and did their bidding, his gang could take the last 1000 days to push their own black nationalist agenda. We’re in that period now.
Does no one remember his fat lip over Christmas a few years ago?
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