[h=1]Obama Family Vacations Surpass $100 Million[/h]Posted about 1 year ago | 52 comments
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Washington, D.C., – For the seventh time in as many summers, the Obama family will vacation in Martha’s Vineyard this August. With this trip the first family will exceed $100 million in taxpayer dollars spent on vacation travel expenses, an unprecedented amount for any U.S. President in history.
Be it another unnecessary family vacation, golf outing, or fundraising trip, no other president has mocked the American taxpayer to such extremes. Watchdog groups through the Freedom of Information Act, (FOIA), have obtained records detailing the first family’s travel expenses, and one look at these records show why the Obama Administration fought so hard to keep them sealed.
Since first taking office in 2009, the Obama family have acted like they won the lottery, not the presidency. The first family has treated Air Force One like their personal taxi, jet-setting around the world on taxpayer’s dime. This latest 15-day trip to Martha’s Vineyard alone will cost the American taxpayer an estimated two million dollars.
While the liberal media will point to George W. Bush’s number of vacations during his presidency, they conveniently leave out the fact that the majority of those vacations were spent on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, at minimal cost to taxpayers. When comparing the two, the Obama’s have outspent the Bush family on personal vacations by a staggering $71 million dollars. In fact, First Lady Michelle Obama has outspent the entire Bush family herself on lavish vacations to Africa, Spain, India, and China, just to name a few.
President Obama set the tone early in his presidency when he and the First Lady set off in Air Force One for a date night to New York City, taking in dinner and a Broadway play. Round trip fuel cost alone for the date exceeded $300k, not including costs for security by an already stretched thin Secret Service. Weekend getaways to the President’s hometown of Chicago became the norm, including many dinner dates to Table Fifty-Two, co-owned by Oprah Winfrey’s former personal chef.
When the first family touch down in Martha’s Vineyard next month, they will be staying at the super swanky, 50,000-square-foot, nine- bedroom, fifteen-bath cottage in Chilmark where they vacationed last summer. President Obama will undoubtedly spend much of his two week vacation playing on the island’s three golf courses, practicing for all those celebrity golf tournaments he will be joining after he leaves office.
While the real unemployment rate sits at 38% with a record 50 million American families on food stamps, we can rest easy knowing our commander-in-chief will be doing everything he can… to improve his golf game…at taxpayers expense.
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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Be it another unnecessary family vacation, golf outing, or fundraising trip, no other president has mocked the American taxpayer to such extremes. Watchdog groups through the Freedom of Information Act, (FOIA), have obtained records detailing the first family’s travel expenses, and one look at these records show why the Obama Administration fought so hard to keep them sealed.
Since first taking office in 2009, the Obama family have acted like they won the lottery, not the presidency. The first family has treated Air Force One like their personal taxi, jet-setting around the world on taxpayer’s dime. This latest 15-day trip to Martha’s Vineyard alone will cost the American taxpayer an estimated two million dollars.
While the liberal media will point to George W. Bush’s number of vacations during his presidency, they conveniently leave out the fact that the majority of those vacations were spent on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, at minimal cost to taxpayers. When comparing the two, the Obama’s have outspent the Bush family on personal vacations by a staggering $71 million dollars. In fact, First Lady Michelle Obama has outspent the entire Bush family herself on lavish vacations to Africa, Spain, India, and China, just to name a few.
President Obama set the tone early in his presidency when he and the First Lady set off in Air Force One for a date night to New York City, taking in dinner and a Broadway play. Round trip fuel cost alone for the date exceeded $300k, not including costs for security by an already stretched thin Secret Service. Weekend getaways to the President’s hometown of Chicago became the norm, including many dinner dates to Table Fifty-Two, co-owned by Oprah Winfrey’s former personal chef.
When the first family touch down in Martha’s Vineyard next month, they will be staying at the super swanky, 50,000-square-foot, nine- bedroom, fifteen-bath cottage in Chilmark where they vacationed last summer. President Obama will undoubtedly spend much of his two week vacation playing on the island’s three golf courses, practicing for all those celebrity golf tournaments he will be joining after he leaves office.
While the real unemployment rate sits at 38% with a record 50 million American families on food stamps, we can rest easy knowing our commander-in-chief will be doing everything he can… to improve his golf game…at taxpayers expense.
who knew Dave, I beat you to a "WTF" thread 7 years ago?
and the "really smart" people knew he was lying 7+ years ago
some people probably still think
you can keep your doctor
you can keep your health insurance
costs are going to decrease
quality is going to increase
and, as a kicker, it's going to help balance the budget
ointer:ointer:ointer:ointer:ointer:fucking idiots
still drinking that witch hazel from the fountain of youth they found in a remote section of South Dakota
LMFAO@them
We had a pretty entertaining Obama birthday party thread last year but I could not find it:
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