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Offline thundley4

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Military Pegs Hourly Air Force One Cost at $181G, as Obama Sets Travel Record R
« on: November 24, 2010, 02:40:44 PM »
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The average American could buy a house for the amount of money it takes to run Air Force One every hour.
The U.S. military has provided an updated estimate on that cost, first published by a taxpayer watchdog group and confirmed by FoxNews.com, and the number is staggering -- $181,757 per hour. That's the price tag for shuttling around President Obama, who, as it turns out, has spent more days abroad in his first two years than any other president.
Estimates over the years based on government reports and independent number-crunching have always reflected a steep cost for presidential travel, but the figure provided by the 89th Airlift Wing appears to be far higher than any previously reported. It was first published in a report this week on presidential travel by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation.
"It's astonishing. It's far higher than any other ... figure that's been reported on. It's very surprising, and of course, it's just a fraction of the overall cost involved with presidential travel," said policy analyst Demian Brady, who wrote the study.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/24/military-pegs-hourly-air-force-cost-g-obama-sets-travel-record/#ixzz16EbVSucl
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Re: Military Pegs Hourly Air Force One Cost at $181G, as Obama Sets Travel Record R
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2010, 02:42:54 PM »
I wonder how much he'll be spending on that Hawaiian vacation during Christmas this year?  Christ, and they bash Bush for spending time in Crawford.
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Re: Military Pegs Hourly Air Force One Cost at $181G, as Obama Sets Travel Record R
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2010, 02:45:52 PM »
the first citizen of the world has to get out among his subjects.
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Re: Military Pegs Hourly Air Force One Cost at $181G, as Obama Sets Travel Record R
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2010, 03:41:30 PM »
Just a brutha living large on someone else's credit card.
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Re: Military Pegs Hourly Air Force One Cost at $181G, as Obama Sets Travel Record R
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2010, 05:13:20 PM »
Don't be mad he is just trying to get all of his perks before his time in office is up LOL
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Re: Military Pegs Hourly Air Force One Cost at $181G, as Obama Sets Travel Record R
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2010, 05:15:53 PM »
181K+ an hour?

Holy Crap.  I figured it was expensive to run that thing, but that's way over what I would have guessed at.
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Re: Military Pegs Hourly Air Force One Cost at $181G, as Obama Sets Travel Record R
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2010, 05:44:48 PM »
It's only money. Hell with a punch of a button he can print more.

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Re: Military Pegs Hourly Air Force One Cost at $181G, as Obama Sets Travel Record R
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2010, 03:17:28 AM »
I wonder if that includes purchase price, depreciation, property tax, landing fee's, ramp fee's, etc., etc..
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Re: Military Pegs Hourly Air Force One Cost at $181G, as Obama Sets Travel Record R
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2010, 07:50:27 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on November 24, 2010, 02:45:52 PM
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Re: Military Pegs Hourly Air Force One Cost at $181G, as Obama Sets Travel Record R
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2010, 02:23:02 PM »
Gawd I love being a lowly serf.
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