Posted on 03/15/2015 7:38:49 AM PDT by calvincaspian
Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane ... No, it’s two planes!
Two taxpayer-funded planes, that is. And on those two planes last Thursday were two occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, jetting across country to the same destination — L.A.
Separate planes. Your money.
Ready for the pain?
You’re going to need a No. 2 pencil and scrap paper for this.
Estimates are that Air Force One costs about $206,000 per hour to operate. You could go on Priceline right now and book a round-trip itinerary from Boston to LAX for between $500 and $1,000 total. For what it costs taxpayers to ferry the POTUS, one-way, to Jimmy Kimmel for the all-crucial mission of reading “mean tweets,” you could book 1,000 round-trip flights from Boston to Los Angeles.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
I'm sure it was a classy affair, like last summer's Hollywood fundraiser at which the President shared some chuckles with R&B singer Janelle Monae who "danced on a table in the East Room of the White House during an inaugural after-party for the president in 2013" according to Billboard Magazine.
How dare a non-EXEMPT criticize the King.
Hope he enjoys his IRS audit.Do it again and it’s a trip to the park for him.
I wonder if “Let’s Move” is a program for which Congress has approved funds, or if FLOTUS just gets a certain amount of money to piss away as she sees fit.
...and then there is the additional greenhouse gas emission.
It’s separate flights/travel the norm for Muslims?
I’m surprised to see them ever travel together.
Isn’t
Spot on.
There’s a big deal going on right now in Indian Wells, CA...Larry Ellison’s BNP Parinbas Open, in which Serena Williams has made a 14y absence (comeback). As Obama loves this area and Ellison owns it, and all the Hollywood people are there, if Serena makes it to the finals next week, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the plane make another trip west. Keep your eyes posted.
I live right down the road from this event. Yes, and BO comes here every 5 minutes. This is just another excuse to blow our hard earned money..
typical of obammy and the mooch simply giving the middle finger to the American taxpayer.
Yo, obammy, same to ya pal.
The Boston Herald should sharpen their pencils a little more. My wife and I just flew to Florida from Washington State round trip for $260 a piece with all taxes and fees included. The Obamas waste more money in a day than my wife and I will waste in our lifetimes. It is immoral.
Why separate though? Shouldn’t they fly together? But then again, they act like people who spend money more than water.
Definitely. Plus why not fly together as a married couple anyways? My wife and I flew together to Florida as well. Separate reasons, but we both went to Orlando, so why not fly on the same plane?
Even worse, most of the voters do not seem to care, given that they re-elected them.
The Global Warmists never made much sense to me. Okay, I am just one of those stupid low-educated electricians. But why is it that I can figure out how to teleconference and not need a large jet airliner spewing fuel, which the alarmists cannot seem to figure out?
The just don’t care how it looks anymore, assuming they ever did.
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