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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: mrclose on September 27, 2012, 05:15:02 AM
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It is good to be King and Queen!
Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks.
In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family.
Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal†that Obama isn’t the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/26/taxpayers-spent-1-4-billion-on-obama-family-last-year-perks-questioned-in-new-book/
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Yeah, that has to be reigned in for the love of Pete.
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Yeah, that has to be reigned in for the love of Pete.
Agreed, but who's gonna do it? Our senators and representatives? Right.
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It would have been worth it, if they had been one-way tickets.
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It would have been worth it, if they had been one-way tickets.
You big stealer! I wuz just gonna post that! :lmao:
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It would have been worth it, if they had been one-way tickets.
Maybe it was a one way term ticket? We'll see come November.
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What does it cost, bare minimum, to run the WH at an effective level? No vacations except to Camp David, no golf trips except to local military bases, two state dinners per year, etc.
Every dollar over that should come out of POTUS's pay.
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What does it cost, bare minimum, to run the WH at an effective level? No vacations except to Camp David, no golf trips except to local military bases, two state dinners per year, etc.
Every dollar over that should come out of POTUS's pay.
I thought the President and First Lady had a travel allowance (I think it was $90,000/year each).
This is infuriating.
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What does it cost, bare minimum, to run the WH at an effective level? No vacations except to Camp David, no golf trips except to local military bases, two state dinners per year, etc.
Every dollar over that should come out of POTUS's pay.
Let them eat cake.
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Let them eat cake shit.
FIFY.
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I don't begrudge some of the Presidential perks. After all in most cases it is a 24/7 job.
I would be interested how Obama and crew expenses compare to previous Presidencies , adjusted for inflation.
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I don't begrudge some of the Presidential perks. After all in most cases it is a 24/7 job.
I would be interested how Obama and crew expenses compare to previous Presidencies , adjusted for inflation.
That's what I was trying to say.
How much did GWB spend each year on the WH? Clinton? etc.
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can someone please explain to me why we are supposed to believe that it is Romney who is out of touch with middle class America?
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can someone please explain to me why we are supposed to believe that it is Romney who is out of touch with middle class America?
Because Romney pays his own way in life....and to Obama's way of thinking, the real middle class, those like him and Moochelle, have always had their way paid by the government.