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Posted on 04/10/2013 10:22:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama had another tough week in a second term filled with bad news and blunders — and he’s only 10 weeks in.
While the White House suddenly decided to drop its budget Friday in an effort to control the news, there was no covering up the disastrous jobless numbers: 90 million Americans out of the workforce, the highest level since 1979; another 663,000 joining the ranks of the long-term unemployed; a measly 88,000 jobs “created.”
But what seems stuck in the craw of a lot of you readers out there was last week’s column on the Obamas’ 1 percent lifestyle — the endless ski and beach vacations for the couple and their daughters, Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s nights in London and Paris that cost you more than $1 million, even the president’s 118th round of golf while in office.
“My kids asked me a couple of years ago why we never went on family vacations,” wrote Steve Gibson. “I told them that we had to pay all of our expenses first and there wasn’t any money left over for a family vacation. Then I keep seeing … stories about the administration taking trips everywhere and I don’t know what to think. I have been laid off twice in the past year and am currently in the job search mode again.”
Eric Zundell is in the same boat....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Ours are one or two in state a year or just across the state line for a couple of nights. True vacations to a destination are a distant memory.
Exactly! Hey, do I look like a government employee? Who else can afford a real vacation?
No. If my company was bleeding that much of Other People's Money, I'd be in the office trying to fix things. Also, Obozo really pisses me off when I hear him talk about "the rich and corporations taking advantage of tax breaks". Really? Who does that eff'in idiot think wrote the tax code? Kick yourself and everyone else in the House and Senate in the teeth for making the Tax Code so complicated that when I phone for help, each person gives me a different answer.
I'm so PO'ed I could spit!
My first thought was to say: "That's an employee attitude, not an executive one." But stories of "executives" bailing out of struggling businesses with a golden parachutes started filling my head.
Probably closer to say, "That's an employee attitude, not a business owner's attitude." And that's what Obama is. He's an executive with an employee's attitude. "I can't fix it. I'm stuck. So I'm checking out every chance I get."
He probably thought four years ago that his hand-picked, like-minded geniuses would have it all figured out by now. They're all looking at each other in blank wonderment: "I thought you could fix it!"
Hillary bailed so she could take one more grab at the ball in 2016. And if the GOPe continues their course, she'll probably get it.
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I work six days a week. Whats a ‘’vacation’’?
Baloney sandwiches in cheap motel rooms, WHOOOPEEE!
Worth it, I’m sure. Thank him for me.
[[90 million Americans out of the workforce,]]
And cuts to SS for the elderly and dissabled, while he and family whoop it up at the whitehouse and the press Says absolutely SQUAT about it-
One of his buddies just finished Marine Corps basic. The kid has no close family so he sort of got adopted here. He is a little bitty kid but he was damned determined to be a Marine. He called my daughter and asked her if she would make her special hot wings for him so it looks like there will be a whole mess of kids around this weekend.
This place rocks on weekends, I just hide out in here with my cat, and they let me clean the guns.
The Obama’s living the lifestyle of the rich and famous is an issue the GOP should have made a big issue in the campaign. Of course the party ran the one candidate who could not make Obama’s royal lifestyle an issue. Romney was even stupid enough to be building a palatial home in La Jolla during the election year.
I work six days a week. Whats a ‘’vacation’’?
A five day work week.
The family in the white house is part of the ruling elite. They live high off the hog on our money, while looking down at us with scorn.
We’ve saved up for two years to be able to afford a trip to Disney this summer. Other than that, short trips in-state...camping, fishing, etc.
bkmk
2004, Disneyworld and other theme parks in Orlando.
Rented a vacation rental home for the month of january.
Its a much better deal renting a home than in the parks, a nice escape from Alaska.
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