Posted on 12/18/2013 6:15:12 AM PST by Kaslin
President Obama is packing his bags for a 17-day, taxpayer-funded Christmas vacation to Hawaii, The Washington Times reported. The vacation begins on Friday, December 20.
The first family will reportedly be shacking up at a palatial ocean-front home that rents for $24,500 a week. When you toss in the shaved ice, greens fees, and gas for Air Force One, the American taxpayers could be on the hook for one mighty expensive Hawaiian holiday.
The Hawaii Reporter ran the numbers on last years trip and found that it cost taxpayers more than $4 million. Thats some pricy poi.
And while the first family enjoys pampering in paradise, itll be anything but a vacation for folks who live close by, according to Hawaii News Now. Residents will be subjected to roadblocks and security checks. A popular canal will be closed and patrolled by Navy Seals and military blockades have reportedly been erected on the beach.
One time they stopped me they opened up my gas cap to look into the lawn mower, resident Norman Asing told the newspaper.
And as much as the locals enjoy the attention, some say the inconvenience has worn thin.
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Doesn’t keep them from voting for their kin.
I’m laughing and crying at the same time.
God help us all....
Don’t forget the Crazy Horse Monument
Anyone watching to see if he goes to the county birth records bldg??
On the plus side it’s 17 days of no new stick it to them programs from him.
Hawaii is too crowded during the holidays. April and late Sept are much better times to head over.
The only way I could afford to go there is by inner-tube. Or to find a piece of driftwood going in that direction.
Another three years of Obama and I’ll be investing what I have left in an inner tube as well.
What’s wrong with DC? Bush spent the actual holidays in DC so that his Secret Service people and other staffers could spend Christmas with their families, and then he went to his ranch in Texas for a few days afterwards.
Bambi could go “back” to Chicago, a place he lived only for convenience but which is technically his place of residence and where he does own a politically-purchased mansion, after spending Christmas in DC...right?
It reminds me of some of the locations from “Magnum, P.I.”
That arrogant pos doesn't care about anyone but himself
MOW-NAY!!!
Perhaps that lovely island resort out in the middle of San Francisco Bay, then.
You could invite him for some art appreciation.
And just to breathe the clean mountain air!
Since there's not room for another portrait on Rushmore, I hear that the back portion of the CHM is available...
...and the chilrun...
I should invite someone? Who? Where?
should = could
Haha.
Did you know there was an incident where Dolly
collapsed on stage and it took four men to carry
her off.......two abreast.
Yeah especially the horse’s rear, which would be perfect
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