I see a lot of travesties here. They have made absolutely no sacrifices to this country whatsoever, at anytime in their lives. They have been living LARGE since the moment they rolled into DC. They don’t have enough respect for the people of this country who are paying up to 5.00 for a gallon of gas, to keep travel at a minimum, and for national reasons only. This girl did not need another vacation. Didn’t Obama tell us at one time that we might have to give up some vacations, etc. No there is a lot wrong here and there is no excuse. So you are telling me that the presidents daughter is flying with her friends commercial and not a charter or AF2? I don’t believe it.
I’m not disagreeing with either of you - the point I was trying to make was that we should stick to the facts – the implications in the thread was that taxpayers are fully funding a personal (unsupervised) international vaca for first daughter, a bunch of her friends, and the ss guys, when in reality it’s a school trip, all the kids are paying their own way, and the school plans these “minimesters” (which aren’t promoted as vacations, but learning experiences) every year for all of their kids.
You’re both correct in that it’s a stupid trip and she shouldn’t have gone (like she really needs another vacation, sorry, I meant “learning experience”, and the cost of the ss guys and to send her and them to mexico, special flight or not, is sickening) but again, let’s keep it in perspective. If they can “afford” the school, they can “afford” all that goes with it. The school also has a summer program in China - hell, 1 year tuition to that place for just one kid is more than what I pay on my mortgage in a year.
Just trying to keep folks to the facts is all. Things are bad enough where we don’t need to invent stuff to be outraged about.