Disgusting use of PUBLIC funds
 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...h-holiday.html

I'm surprised no-one here has commented on this yet.

Someone needs to wake the frig up. I'm not paying taxes for this douchebag to go party round the friggin world. :smash:

You can add this to this rant too.

Obama Choppers Six Miles For Economy Comments - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

$11,000 per hour to go 6 friggin miles?

you clearly don't understand the importance of the Obama's and their "work"

Hey, at least HE didn't go too!

I mean, I can't recall ever having a president take so many publicized vacations within his first year, EVER!

Funny, but how many of us, who ACTUALLY WORK FOR A LIVING, get to take 2 or more vacations a year, and have everyone else pay for them to boot? How many of us were able to just stop work and take off for a week, regardless of what work was like? How many of us would still have those jobs when we returned?

Here's a point to consider: How many other presidents took multiple vacations during their first year in office, and how many took one OUTSIDE the US?
I'm just curious that's all.


Now as for Mrs. Obama, if she were selling this as some kind of "peace mission" or "act of good will" then she might have slipped under the radar, but because it's ANOTHER vacation, she's back in the spotlight again!

Obama pick's up tab for 3 (the Family): the tax payer picks up the tab for what 60+ members of the entourage/security?

2 vacations a year? This dude is on 2 in the last 3 weeks!

And he's off to the Vineyard too!

Sorry I'm wrong. EIGHT VACATIONS JUST THIS SUMMER. 10 days on MV coming up before the end of the month :smash:

"Back in the U.S., anger was mounting - especially as it has emerged the First Lady will have enjoyed eight holidays by the end of the summer"

He should have choppered up for the free Shakespeare in the park with Deval

It is absolutely amazing, how 'above the populace' today's politican's have become


Romney/Brown in 2012!!

This happens with Every. Single. President.

the Clinton haircut

How can it be a disgusting use of public funds when you have NO CLUE how much taxpayer funds are being used?

-spence

Spence go back and read what it says.

Whether or not the taxpaying American will be paying for meals, they will definitely be footing the bill for the First Lady's 68-strong security detail, her personal staff - and the use of presidential jet Air Force Two.
The per diems for the secret service team runs at around £172 each, which amounts to nearly £60,000 for the length of the summer break.
Use of Air Force Two, the Air Force version of a 757, comes in at £91,900 for the round trip. This does not include time on the ground.
Mrs Obama's personal staff, of which there are an unknown amount and who might cost considerably more per day, also have to be taken into account.

The American public will also cover the cost of the only official part of the holiday, a visit to the Spanish royal family on the island of Majorca.
This will involve transport there and back for the entourage - as well as travel, accommodation, food and expenses for all while on the island.

Conservative estimates already put the total cost at £150,000. With Majorca to come, the bill will be more like £250,000.

So she uses AF2 on State Business, she's the First Lady so she has protection and all the "extras" are privately paid?

I'm not sure what your expectations are, that the First Lady stays in DC baking cookies? It would seem as though the taxpayer isn't paying for anything extravagant, or perhaps even unreasonable.

-spence

did you see her short hairs sticking out of her bikini?@??@? talk about pubic relations...

"State Business" :rotf2::rotf2:
you are such a tool....:uhuh:

vacations are not state business

state business your killin me.

She's got multiple planes and 70 friggin people there just to support her security.

Spence I ask you this...

Why as a citizen of the USA would I want to go to work and have to pay a tax to the government (effectively at some point working for free to pay this tax) so that this doosh can spend $250,000 to go to Spain to play %$%$%$%$ing lala on the beach or shopping.

GET REAL MAN

IT'S MY TAX DOLLARS SUPPORTING THIS %$%$%$%$! As a small business owner I just made 30 lures to pay that tax this week. I gave away my time and raw materials so that this %$%$%$%$%$%$%$ could do this? Yea I did and it ain't right. Anyone who says it is must be delusional or hallucinating so which is it :hee:

Mmmm curly fries :jump1::rotf2:

where is the humanitarian mission to Haiti ?

this is PURE Barrak......... pissed me off
and i'm takin off...

leaving him alone on his Birthday ?
WTF whaT a BITCH !

it's nothing more than a fashion publicity stunt...
because she thinks she some kind of role Model PFFF

she couldn't have found anywhere in the USA to TRAVEL
so that she could boost the local economy like
down south?... oh yeah to hot... well, how bout ALASKA

How can you be a role model to America by flying to Spain?

This is almost beyond Clintonism's

I wouldn't worry about that, I heard that Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dorn, Reverend Wright, Loius Farrakhan and Rashid Khalidi...you know, all of his friends from the neighborhood.... showed up at the Obama mansion with a birthday cake for Barry...I'm sure they had a wonderful time discussing the further destruction of America.....personally, I find her husband's "disgusting use of public funds" far more offensive...


"STATE BUSINESS"...WHAT A COINCIDENCE??..."LET THE OBAMORONS EAT CAKE":rotf2::rotf2::rotf2:

Meanwhile at the five-star luxury Villa Padierna, where the group have chosen to spend their mini-break, preparations were under way for Marbella's event of the year – a star-studded charity gala hosted by Hollywood A-listers Antonio Banderas and Eva Longoria.

Expectation was high that the First Lady would be the special guest at the event on Saturday night after she received a personal invitation from Ms Longoria, star of Desperate Housewives, who lent her support to Barack Obama during his presidential campaign.

Didn't you get the memo?....Cookies are now on the banned list.

It seems most if not all of the taxpayer funds used for this trip are in transportation and security, which I don't believe she has any say in. It wouldn't surprise me if the Secret Service didn't arrange the logistics.

The additional expenses that were at her discretion were paid out of pocket.

Shouldn't the First Lady be able to take a kid on a trip? Doesn't sound all that unreasonable to me. Is it expensive? Sure, but right now she's a VIP with national security concerns.

Had she been on a commercial flight that was hi-jacked you'd be screaming "how could they let the First Lady on a commercial flight!".

-spence

So Laura and the bottle twins never took a vacation, EVER? or did they pay for everything w/o secret service.

give me a break.

up to a case of straws Bugger. next stop will be a gross....

Is that enough to make a plug yet Bryan? :hee:

So Spence thinks it's ok to work so that Chuckles Mcgee can go frolic with the King of Spain.

Meet me at my shop 4:30 Monday morning I got plenty for you to do if you like working for free.

While Obama preaches sacrifice, his family frolics in Spain

BE STILL MY BEATING HEART SOMEONE ELSE THINKS THE SAME WAY I DO

Hope you got the receipt for them straws.

"Just last month, Mrs Obama flew to the Florida panhandle, a tourist draw hit hard by the oil spill crisis, and delivered the message that for parents ''looking for things to do with their kids this summer … this is a wonderful place to visit''.

Laura and her husband didn't lecture America about shared sacrafice and scaling back their lifestyles and personal responsibility and CARBON FOOTPRINTS on and on...and then proceed to break all records for self-indulgent excessive spending at the taxpayers expense....the more you try to defend these people the more rediculous you appear...it must be comforting to be a democrat politician or spouse of one knowing that you can engage in pretty much any form of hypocritical and distasteful behaviour and the average democrat will dismiss criticism of it without question, defend it as perfectly appropriate and encourage more of it...Rham Emmanuel was right...:uhuh:

From what I heard this trip has been scheuled for some time. Would seem quite transparent to cancel your plans at the last second just for the appearance of it all.

-spence

I'll take "seeming transparency" over gluttonous hypocricy any time :uhuh:...just for the appearance of it all....

If that's the case perhaps you should take your beef up with the US Secret Service. I can forward your info along if you'd like.

-spence

are you wearing a brown shirt right now?

No green.

-spence

:rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao:

Ronda is beautiful, hope they at least hiked the gorge.

Another case of the right shooting themselves in the foot. More death threats to this pres. than any other and then they cry like babies when the secret service spends $ to protect the family.

Did Laura B ever take any vac. that needed secret service protection?

as usual, you completely miss the point...

Then what was the point of the first post?

Look it up yourselves, it has even been discussed here.

And calling a woman a douchebag is a new low for this site.

OK...here it is...I know that reading isn't your thing but you should try it before you taunt others..noone has suggested that the First Lady should not get Secret Service protection as you suggest, the question is about the extravagant travel, the expense of dragging the SS protection along and the appearance of it all at a time when their rhetoric has been to trash extravagant living....:uhuh:

Michelle Obama today faced a fresh wave of attacks over her lavish break in Spain with 40 friends, which could easily cost U.S. taxpayers a staggering £50,000 a day.
The First Lady has been lambasted for her extravagance at a time when the economy is still .struggling

She had 2 friends and I think 4 of their kids (who all travelled on commercial flights) not 40. I read that they all paid their own way as did she (including food, room and transportation). There were some of her aides but they were taken along b/c she will make a courtesy call to the king and queen. The gov. pays for security and the secret service decides what is needed. Look at Salty's 13th post (I believe) he was ranting about the security detail.

I never said I don't read, I said I don't read obvious right/left wing articles.

Maybe the posts swerved from the original post. I almoststopped reading when someone complained how much vac. Pres. Obama took in his first year. I laughed at the hypocrisy and stopped reading.

If you ever go to the south of Spain, visit Ronda and Malaga - like Michelle. Both very nice.