Tweet
Paying for Obama's Vacations
American Thinker
M Catharine Evans
12/12/2012
There's no mystery as to why Obama needs his tax rate increase on the top 2%. The deficit? The national debt? ObamaCare? Nope -- that money is going to finance his family vacations.
According to the Hawaii Reporter, the total expenses of Obama's upcoming trip will match those of last year's trip to the islands -- about $4 million.
With the staff, special forces, local police presence and equipment, the President's visit adds up annually to at least a $4 million vacation courtesy of the Hawaii and federal taxpayers.
While the President and his friends pay for their own rental homes, taxpayers pick up the cost of security and waterfront housing for the Secret Service, Navy Seals and Coast Guard as well as staff accommodations at a plush beachfront Waikiki hotel.
TRAVEL: $3,629,622
In addition, Judicial Watch just released detailed expenditures for first daughter Malia Obama's trip to Mexico last spring. The teen and some of her Sidwell Friends schoolmates were accompanied by 25 Secret Service personnel in March, courtesy of American taxpayers. The information obtained from the U.S. Secret Service through the Freedom of Information Act comes right before the Obama's scheduled vacation to Hawaii. The breakdown of the $115,500.87 tab shows the biggest chunk going to flying the rich kids to Mexico.
Ground transportation: $23,964.81
Lodging: $21,682.92
Airfare: $47,767.34
"Vouchers": $21,636.14 (not itemized)
Support Charges: $449.66 (travel for one from Mexico City to Oaxaca, not itemized)
Here's a partial list of the 16 vacations the Obamas have already taken on the taxpayer's dime.
February 2012, Michelle Obama's trip to Aspen, Colorado: $83,182.99.
August 2010, Michelle Obama's trip to Spain: $467,585.00.
Secret Service records, meanwhile, show that the costs to the agency for the vacation were $254,461.20. This total includes $26,670.61 for a chauffeur tour of Costa del Sol and $50,078.78 for a travel planning company SET P&V, S.L. (George Soros is 50% owner of the travel company.) Taxpayers also paid the bill for separate lodging for a dog and its handler.
Summer 2011, Michelle Obama's trip to Africa with entourage of 21 people: $424,142.00. In addition, it reports another $928.44 was spent on providing 192 meals for the 21 people who made the trip.
December 2011, the First Family's Hawaii Christmas vacation: $4,113,038.
December 2012, upcoming 20-day Christmas vacation: $4,000,000.
.......................................
View the complete article at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...vacations.html
American Thinker
M Catharine Evans
12/12/2012
There's no mystery as to why Obama needs his tax rate increase on the top 2%. The deficit? The national debt? ObamaCare? Nope -- that money is going to finance his family vacations.
According to the Hawaii Reporter, the total expenses of Obama's upcoming trip will match those of last year's trip to the islands -- about $4 million.
With the staff, special forces, local police presence and equipment, the President's visit adds up annually to at least a $4 million vacation courtesy of the Hawaii and federal taxpayers.
While the President and his friends pay for their own rental homes, taxpayers pick up the cost of security and waterfront housing for the Secret Service, Navy Seals and Coast Guard as well as staff accommodations at a plush beachfront Waikiki hotel.
TRAVEL: $3,629,622
In addition, Judicial Watch just released detailed expenditures for first daughter Malia Obama's trip to Mexico last spring. The teen and some of her Sidwell Friends schoolmates were accompanied by 25 Secret Service personnel in March, courtesy of American taxpayers. The information obtained from the U.S. Secret Service through the Freedom of Information Act comes right before the Obama's scheduled vacation to Hawaii. The breakdown of the $115,500.87 tab shows the biggest chunk going to flying the rich kids to Mexico.
Ground transportation: $23,964.81
Lodging: $21,682.92
Airfare: $47,767.34
"Vouchers": $21,636.14 (not itemized)
Support Charges: $449.66 (travel for one from Mexico City to Oaxaca, not itemized)
Here's a partial list of the 16 vacations the Obamas have already taken on the taxpayer's dime.
February 2012, Michelle Obama's trip to Aspen, Colorado: $83,182.99.
August 2010, Michelle Obama's trip to Spain: $467,585.00.
Secret Service records, meanwhile, show that the costs to the agency for the vacation were $254,461.20. This total includes $26,670.61 for a chauffeur tour of Costa del Sol and $50,078.78 for a travel planning company SET P&V, S.L. (George Soros is 50% owner of the travel company.) Taxpayers also paid the bill for separate lodging for a dog and its handler.
Summer 2011, Michelle Obama's trip to Africa with entourage of 21 people: $424,142.00. In addition, it reports another $928.44 was spent on providing 192 meals for the 21 people who made the trip.
December 2011, the First Family's Hawaii Christmas vacation: $4,113,038.
December 2012, upcoming 20-day Christmas vacation: $4,000,000.
.......................................
View the complete article at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...vacations.html