- WTF
- 02-28-2020, 02:26 PM
- The_Waco_Kid
- 02-28-2020, 02:32 PM
https://www.investors.com/politics/c...avel-expenses/
Michelle Obama travel expense update: Your tax dollars at work
Just a quick update, as you organize to file your income taxes, on the Obama family's lavish travel expenses that your money is underwriting. Financing might be a better word.
Barack and Michelle Obama have traveled more than any other first couple -- doing Spain, Africa, China, South America, among other distant spots. Often they're accompanied by friends and Michelle Obama's Mom, Marian Robinson, who's been living in the White House at taxpayer expense since her son-in-law's inauguration. And in some cases, Mrs. Robinson's friends tag along.
By one accounting, as of last July the Obamas had spent more than $44.4 million in taxpayer money on travel for 31 international trips lasting 119 days. For comparison, at the same point in his presidency Ronald Reagan had made 14 trips lasting 73 days.
You may recall Michele Obama's controversial trip with friends to Spain's luxury Costa del Sol in 2010 at a time when the U.S. unemployment rate was 9.5% on the way to 9.8%. And President Obama's $1 trillion economic stimulus package had yet to kick in. Of course, it's still yet to kick in.
According to numbers gathered by Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates government corruption, that trip cost Americans at least $468,000.
Turns out, by Obama administration standards that was a bargain tour.
Mrs. Obama's latest foreign junket this month was to Japan and Cambodia, allegedly to promote an Agency for International Development program to encourage education for girls.
On a one-day, side-trip to visit two shrines in Kyoto, including one honoring a god of rice, Michelle Obama's party incurred almost $79,000 in expenses just for rental cars, Judicial Watch reports. That's a lot of tuition for girls! Or boys.
When the Obamas visited Northern Ireland in 2013, Michelle Obama took her daughters on a two-day, side-trip to Dublin. That side-trip alone cost U.S. taxpayers a quarter-million dollars, including a $3,300-a-night hotel suite of the sort Mrs. Obama prefers. The Obamas' Ireland trip set us back just under $8 million.
Dublin rental cars alone for the first lady cost $114,000.
In 2014 when Mrs. Obama, her mother and daughters toured China, she stayed in Beijing's Westin Hotel in a suite costing you $8,400 per night. Previously, that price was deemed too expensive for Vice President Joe Biden to use.
However, JB does OK. On a European jaunt two years ago Biden and his unusually large entourage had a hotel bill in London of $460,000 for one night.
The next night in Paris, the vice presidential party -- and we do mean party -- ran up one-night hotel charges of $585,000.50. Now, that's a lot of mini-bar items and in-room movies.
Oh, and both those government hotel contracts were done on a no-bid basis, eliminating messy competition and cost-cutting. Can we afford these last 666 days?
Michelle Obama travel expense update: Your tax dollars at work
Just a quick update, as you organize to file your income taxes, on the Obama family's lavish travel expenses that your money is underwriting. Financing might be a better word.
Barack and Michelle Obama have traveled more than any other first couple -- doing Spain, Africa, China, South America, among other distant spots. Often they're accompanied by friends and Michelle Obama's Mom, Marian Robinson, who's been living in the White House at taxpayer expense since her son-in-law's inauguration. And in some cases, Mrs. Robinson's friends tag along.
By one accounting, as of last July the Obamas had spent more than $44.4 million in taxpayer money on travel for 31 international trips lasting 119 days. For comparison, at the same point in his presidency Ronald Reagan had made 14 trips lasting 73 days.
You may recall Michele Obama's controversial trip with friends to Spain's luxury Costa del Sol in 2010 at a time when the U.S. unemployment rate was 9.5% on the way to 9.8%. And President Obama's $1 trillion economic stimulus package had yet to kick in. Of course, it's still yet to kick in.
According to numbers gathered by Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates government corruption, that trip cost Americans at least $468,000.
Turns out, by Obama administration standards that was a bargain tour.
Mrs. Obama's latest foreign junket this month was to Japan and Cambodia, allegedly to promote an Agency for International Development program to encourage education for girls.
On a one-day, side-trip to visit two shrines in Kyoto, including one honoring a god of rice, Michelle Obama's party incurred almost $79,000 in expenses just for rental cars, Judicial Watch reports. That's a lot of tuition for girls! Or boys.
When the Obamas visited Northern Ireland in 2013, Michelle Obama took her daughters on a two-day, side-trip to Dublin. That side-trip alone cost U.S. taxpayers a quarter-million dollars, including a $3,300-a-night hotel suite of the sort Mrs. Obama prefers. The Obamas' Ireland trip set us back just under $8 million.
Dublin rental cars alone for the first lady cost $114,000.
In 2014 when Mrs. Obama, her mother and daughters toured China, she stayed in Beijing's Westin Hotel in a suite costing you $8,400 per night. Previously, that price was deemed too expensive for Vice President Joe Biden to use.
However, JB does OK. On a European jaunt two years ago Biden and his unusually large entourage had a hotel bill in London of $460,000 for one night.
The next night in Paris, the vice presidential party -- and we do mean party -- ran up one-night hotel charges of $585,000.50. Now, that's a lot of mini-bar items and in-room movies.
Oh, and both those government hotel contracts were done on a no-bid basis, eliminating messy competition and cost-cutting. Can we afford these last 666 days?
- Hotrod511
- 02-28-2020, 02:34 PM
Would you like some wine with that cheese WTFag
- Hotrod511
- 02-28-2020, 02:38 PM
https://www.investors.com/politics/c...avel-expenses/The one to Spain was the probable the most wasted tax payer money used
Michelle Obama travel expense update: Your tax dollars at work
Just a quick update, as you organize to file your income taxes, on the Obama family's lavish travel expenses that your money is underwriting. Financing might be a better word.
Barack and Michelle Obama have traveled more than any other first couple -- doing Spain, Africa, China, South America, among other distant spots. Often they're accompanied by friends and Michelle Obama's Mom, Marian Robinson, who's been living in the White House at taxpayer expense since her son-in-law's inauguration. And in some cases, Mrs. Robinson's friends tag along.
By one accounting, as of last July the Obamas had spent more than $44.4 million in taxpayer money on travel for 31 international trips lasting 119 days. For comparison, at the same point in his presidency Ronald Reagan had made 14 trips lasting 73 days.
You may recall Michele Obama's controversial trip with friends to Spain's luxury Costa del Sol in 2010 at a time when the U.S. unemployment rate was 9.5% on the way to 9.8%. And President Obama's $1 trillion economic stimulus package had yet to kick in. Of course, it's still yet to kick in.
According to numbers gathered by Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates government corruption, that trip cost Americans at least $468,000.
Turns out, by Obama administration standards that was a bargain tour.
Mrs. Obama's latest foreign junket this month was to Japan and Cambodia, allegedly to promote an Agency for International Development program to encourage education for girls.
On a one-day, side-trip to visit two shrines in Kyoto, including one honoring a god of rice, Michelle Obama's party incurred almost $79,000 in expenses just for rental cars, Judicial Watch reports. That's a lot of tuition for girls! Or boys.
When the Obamas visited Northern Ireland in 2013, Michelle Obama took her daughters on a two-day, side-trip to Dublin. That side-trip alone cost U.S. taxpayers a quarter-million dollars, including a $3,300-a-night hotel suite of the sort Mrs. Obama prefers. The Obamas' Ireland trip set us back just under $8 million.
Dublin rental cars alone for the first lady cost $114,000.
In 2014 when Mrs. Obama, her mother and daughters toured China, she stayed in Beijing's Westin Hotel in a suite costing you $8,400 per night. Previously, that price was deemed too expensive for Vice President Joe Biden to use.
However, JB does OK. On a European jaunt two years ago Biden and his unusually large entourage had a hotel bill in London of $460,000 for one night.
The next night in Paris, the vice presidential party -- and we do mean party -- ran up one-night hotel charges of $585,000.50. Now, that's a lot of mini-bar items and in-room movies.
Oh, and both those government hotel contracts were done on a no-bid basis, eliminating messy competition and cost-cutting. Can we afford these last 666 days? Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
- friendly fred
- 02-28-2020, 03:33 PM
Considering how rich ex Presidents get these days they should pay that shit back.
- HoeHummer
- 02-28-2020, 03:34 PM
- bb1961
- 02-28-2020, 03:43 PM
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- The_Waco_Kid
- 02-28-2020, 04:05 PM
Considering how rich ex Presidents get these days they should pay that shit back. Originally Posted by friendly fred
they don't need any salary after leaving office either. and no security via the secret service. i mean .. who gives a fuck about an ex-president anyway?
this whole presidential lifetime pension shit was because Truman left office broke. while there wasn't the big bucks speaking tours and books that are common today, the bum could have gotten a another job yeah?
Ike did write a book in 1948 that made him a rather nice chunk of change. then he was president of Columbia before running for president in 1952. and he was getting his Army pay .. as a 5 star General. i recall posting the net worth of each modern president and i recall Ike was worth 8 or 9 million.
so only Truman was a welfare bum. not one president since has needed any retirement package paid for on our dime.
- WTF
- 02-28-2020, 04:12 PM
- WTF
- 02-28-2020, 04:14 PM
https://www.investors.com/politics/c...avel-expenses/Do you really want to compare how much each PRESIDENT spent, say on golf?
Michelle Obama travel expense update: Your tax dollars at work
Just a quick update, as you organize to file your income taxes, on the Obama family's lavish travel expenses that your money is underwriting. Financing might be a better word.
Barack and Michelle Obama have traveled more than any other first couple -- doing Spain, Africa, China, South America, among other distant spots. Often they're accompanied by friends and Michelle Obama's Mom, Marian Robinson, who's been living in the White House at taxpayer expense since her son-in-law's inauguration. And in some cases, Mrs. Robinson's friends tag along.
By one accounting, as of last July the Obamas had spent more than $44.4 million in taxpayer money on travel for 31 international trips lasting 119 days. For comparison, at the same point in his presidency Ronald Reagan had made 14 trips lasting 73 days.
You may recall Michele Obama's controversial trip with friends to Spain's luxury Costa del Sol in 2010 at a time when the U.S. unemployment rate was 9.5% on the way to 9.8%. And President Obama's $1 trillion economic stimulus package had yet to kick in. Of course, it's still yet to kick in.
According to numbers gathered by Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates government corruption, that trip cost Americans at least $468,000.
Turns out, by Obama administration standards that was a bargain tour.
Mrs. Obama's latest foreign junket this month was to Japan and Cambodia, allegedly to promote an Agency for International Development program to encourage education for girls.
On a one-day, side-trip to visit two shrines in Kyoto, including one honoring a god of rice, Michelle Obama's party incurred almost $79,000 in expenses just for rental cars, Judicial Watch reports. That's a lot of tuition for girls! Or boys.
When the Obamas visited Northern Ireland in 2013, Michelle Obama took her daughters on a two-day, side-trip to Dublin. That side-trip alone cost U.S. taxpayers a quarter-million dollars, including a $3,300-a-night hotel suite of the sort Mrs. Obama prefers. The Obamas' Ireland trip set us back just under $8 million.
Dublin rental cars alone for the first lady cost $114,000.
In 2014 when Mrs. Obama, her mother and daughters toured China, she stayed in Beijing's Westin Hotel in a suite costing you $8,400 per night. Previously, that price was deemed too expensive for Vice President Joe Biden to use.
However, JB does OK. On a European jaunt two years ago Biden and his unusually large entourage had a hotel bill in London of $460,000 for one night.
The next night in Paris, the vice presidential party -- and we do mean party -- ran up one-night hotel charges of $585,000.50. Now, that's a lot of mini-bar items and in-room movies.
Oh, and both those government hotel contracts were done on a no-bid basis, eliminating messy competition and cost-cutting. Can we afford these last 666 days? Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
I posted that Trump's SON spent 80k in 2 nights.
Of course the President and First Lady spend a bunch while traveling in office.
- The_Waco_Kid
- 02-28-2020, 04:26 PM
Wait...mine was whining and Wacko's was ….what? Originally Posted by WTF
showing you that ranting about Trump's family expenses on tax dollars is no better or worse than Obama's.
you know what i recently saw? some SHOCKING EXPOSE that Trump's trips have cost 133 million dollars to date.
you know what i say? so what!
there are 160 million full time workers in this country it you throw in retirees say another 50 million. do you know what 133 million has cost a total of 210 million tax payers?
63 CENTS ... EACH.
keep in mind i excluded part time workers. if you include them it's probably about 50 cents.
BAHHAHAAAAA
- Levianon17
- 02-28-2020, 04:27 PM
https://www.thedailybeast.com/eric-t...rip-to-uruguay Originally Posted by WTFSo did Eric Trump just hand over all his receipts to the Daily Beast so they could write this crap?
- WTF
- 02-28-2020, 06:16 PM
- The_Waco_Kid
- 02-28-2020, 06:20 PM
- WTF
- 02-28-2020, 06:32 PM
Stupid ass Biden should get out of the race and let Bloomberg clobber Sanders and then Trump!
Those 4 moderates are giving it to Bernie
Those 4 moderates are giving it to Bernie