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 year’s trip and found that it cost taxpayers more than $4 million. That’s some pricy poi.
And while the first family enjoys pampering in paradise, it’ll 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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I notice that we hardly ever see Obama meeting dignitaries, whether on vacation or not.
Perhaps it bores him.
Then why did he want to be president? What a dope
Because he’s above us all, has superior wisdom, so feels he never has to meet with the hoi polloi. To him hoi polloi includes Heads of States.
He may need to personally deliver payoffs for the Fuddy death.
What’s wrong with Leavenworth, Gitmo, Siberia, North Korea or the Castro District?
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