CURL: Obama’s 1 percent lifestyle hits a nerve

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CURL: Obama’s 1 percent lifestyle hits a nerve

By Joseph Curl Sunday, April 7, 2013

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

President Obama had another tough week in a second term filled with bad news and blunders — and he’s only 10 weeks in.

While the White House suddenly decided to drop its budget Friday in an effort to control the news, there was no covering up the disastrous jobless numbers: 90 million Americans out of the workforce, the highest level since 1979; another 663,000 joining the ranks of the long-term unemployed; a measly 88,000 jobs “created.”

But what seems stuck in the craw of a lot of you readers out there was last week’s column on the Obamas’ 1 percent lifestyle — the endless ski and beach vacations for the couple and their daughters, Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s nights in London and Paris that cost you more than $1 million, even the president’s 118th round of golf while in office.

“My kids asked me a couple of years ago why we never went on family vacations,” wrote Steve Gibson. “I told them that we had to pay all of our expenses first and there wasn’t any money left over for a family vacation. Then I keep seeing … stories about the administration taking trips everywhere and I don’t know what to think. I have been laid off twice in the past year and am currently in the job search mode again.”

Eric Zundell is in the same boat: “As someone who has not been able to afford a vacation for my family in the last 12 years (but pays his taxes ), I highly applaud the message delivered by your article.”

Ron Kaye agreed that “this is not about the girls, it’s about the money, which looks worse and worse every month. But the Obamas don’t care what it ‘looks’ like. They ARE the first family and by G-d they’re going to go when and where they want on as many planes as it takes; taxpayers be damned.”

Charlene Sanders echoed Mr. Kaye — with a Marie Antoinette twist. “He doesn’t give a damn about us. He’s the president and by god he’s going to do what he wants … to hell with whatever anybody else thinks. Seems like a ‘Let them eat cake’ attitude to me.”


Oh-oh. People are getting pissed off.

[JohnnyReb]

It got me BS and ignored last time I said it.....so I'll be a little more PC this time, "He acts like a drunk "N-word" with a stolen credit card."

[Big Dog]

It got me BS and ignored last time I said it.....so I'll be a little more PC this time, "He acts like a drunk "N-word" with a stolen credit card."

Barky the Boy King and Moochelle Antoinette are taking their reparations off the top.

[Dori]

Barky the Boy King and Moochelle Antoinette are taking their reparations off the top.

He has given so much money (our tax dollars) to his supporters, I can't help but wonder how well he's going to be "taken care of" after he's out of office.

[JohnnyReb]

He has given so much money (our tax dollars) to his supporters, I can't help but wonder how well he's going to be "taken care of" after he's out of office.

If all his 'friends' are true liberals, they will drop him like a hot potato because he's black and can't/don't use him anymore.

[DumbAss Tanker]

He has given so much money (our tax dollars) to his supporters, I can't help but wonder how well he's going to be "taken care of" after he's out of office.

Like Billy Jeff, he will make millions a year off the lecture circuit as White Libs line with dough, especially in media and academia, line up to give him blow jobs for being the Bestest Prexydent Evah, an evaluation which no amount of evidence to the contrary will change in their minds.

[thundley4]

Like Billy Jeff, he will make millions a year off the lecture circuit as White Libs line with dough, especially in media and academia, line up to give him blow jobs for being the Bestest Prexydent Evah, an evaluation which no amount of evidence to the contrary will change in their minds.

That is if they don't mind having a "ghost speaker" stand in for Obama.  If the rumors are true, he was too lazy to write his own books, so he might not want to give speeches.

[DumbAss Tanker]

That is if they don't mind having a "ghost speaker" stand in for Obama.  If the rumors are true, he was too lazy to write his own books, so he might not want to give speeches.

Oh, he loves giving them...you're right that he's too lazy and clueless to actually write them himself, but for six figures per appearance, I'm sure he can subcontract that, or even take advantage of the many Lib stooges who'd be happy to do it for free.

[samspade]

He has given so much money (our tax dollars) to his supporters, I can't help but wonder how well he's going to be "taken care of" after he's out of office.

Remember Obama said the other day people should have no more than three million dollars to retire on.  That would put a serious crimp in his lifestyle he has been enjoying on the tax payer's dime.  The last tax return I saw said he earned under a million dollars last year but his vacations cost millions and he "claims" he pays his share---in a pig's eye.

[docstew]

Remember Obama said the other day people should have no more than three million dollars to retire on.  That would put a serious crimp in his lifestyle he has been enjoying on the tax payer's dime.  The last tax return I saw said he earned under a million dollars last year but his vacations cost millions and he "claims" he pays his share---in a pig's eye.

I'm sure he files his income taxes and pays them. He's too high profile not to. However, his taxes might amount to 180K-200K, which doesn't even cover the cost of taking AF1 up to NYC for Date Night, much less any other trip he's taken.

He's a looter, just like most of the politicians in DC, and their base is all moochers.

[Dori]

Remember Obama said the other day people should have no more than three million dollars to retire on.  That would put a serious crimp in his lifestyle he has been enjoying on the tax payer's dime.  The last tax return I saw said he earned under a million dollars last year but his vacations cost millions and he "claims" he pays his share---in a pig's eye.

Well yeah, but Obama lives differently from his rhetoric.  He's a hypocrite.  There can be a lot of money out there ear marked for him, just not kept in his name. 

[seahorse513]

Barky the Boy King and Moochelle Antoinette are taking their reparations off the top.

Where is Madame La Guillotine when you need her??