Need help re: Obama cost taxpayers 1.4 billion a year

[Freeper]

pkz (675 posts)   Sat Sep 29, 2012, 01:20 PM

Need help re: Obama cost taxpayers 1.4 billion a year

I sourced the story to: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210323/Obama-family-costs-taxpayers-1-4BILLION-year.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

and of course, picked up by all the rags...caller, blaze the unusual

Can't find anything to dispute it, found old GAO audit from 1999, nothing current

Help with some search terms?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021436775

Try spin, lies, and bullshit in your search. You should be able to find a way to counter this RW lie.  

[Linda]

Kind of hard to dispute the truth.

[franksolich]

Kind of hard to dispute the truth.

I was surprised when I learned that the taxpayers in the United Kingdom pay only $87 million for the royal family.

And that's the whole bit, not just four people and one house.

[formerlurker]

I am thinking that perhaps the messiah's list of expenses is a wee bit different - WTF happened to LGF?  when did they go leftist?

[Freeper]

I am thinking that perhaps the messiah's list of expenses is a wee bit different - WTF happened to LGF?  when did they go leftist?

That is from 2008, those are Bush's expenses.

[jukin]

I am thinking that perhaps the messiah's list of expenses is a wee bit different - WTF happened to LGF?  when did they go leftist?

Chucky went far left when McCain picked Palin. Lost 80% of his traffic and just got more and more bitter. Started banning anyone that disagreed with him just like leftists do. For a long time it was a great sight and then he went all Andrew Sullivan on us.

[formerlurker]

That is from 2008, those are Bush's expenses.

I never said it wasn't - look at my comments at the top of the picture.    They include the entire secret service budget in GWB's expense list, and the national security council.   

[Freeper]

I never said it wasn't - look at my comments at the top of the picture.    They include the entire secret service budget in GWB's expense list, and the national security council.   

Ohh I misunderstood your post then, I thought you were saying that was the messiah's expenses. Can you ever forgive me? 

[miskie]

Chucky went far left when McCain picked Palin. Lost 80% of his traffic and just got more and more bitter. Started banning anyone that disagreed with him just like leftists do. For a long time it was a great sight and then he went all Andrew Sullivan on us.

Yep - LGF banned me too - Because I pointed and laughed at what LGF had become, here at CC.   

[RobJohnson]

louis-t (11,685 posts)

1. Oh, well if it was in a recently published book, then

it MUST be true. Secondly, if repugs didn't go around praying for his death and calling him a threat to the nation, security might not cost so much

pinboy3niner (22,467 posts)

5. About the author, the 'Darth Vader of the lobbyists':

Darth Vader of the Lobbyists

By Stephen Labaton
Published: August 23, 1992

THE POWER HOUSE Robert Keith Gray and the Selling of Access and Influence in Washington. By Susan B. Trento. Illustrated. 430 pp. New York: St. Martin's Press. $24.95.
 
...


To Susan B. Trento, who was formerly the chief staff aide to Representative Harold Hollenbeck of New Jersey, the lobbying industry's Darth Vader is Robert Keith Gray of the public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton. In "The Power House," she tells how Mr. Gray, after unabashedly peddling access for decades, reached the apex of his influence when his friend Ronald Reagan moved into the White House. Throughout the 1980's and into the 90's, as either the head of his own firm or as an executive with Hill & Knowlton, Mr. Gray indiscriminately took on almost any cause, as long as his hefty retainers were paid.
 
His rogues' gallery of clients has included the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the teamster president Jackie Presser, the disgraced publisher Robert Maxwell, the scandal-ridden Bank of Credit and Commerce International (B.C.C.I.), Haiti under the regime of Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier and China immediately following the massacre at Tiananmen Square.
 
An avowed conservative who was an inaugural co-chairman in 1980-81, organizing the glitzy Republican parties that ushered in the Reagan decade, Mr. Gray represented the Marxist Government of Angola. He also worked for Playboy and Penthouse when they were facing a Reagan Administration antipornography crusade led by his friend Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d. Mr. Meese ultimately turned his back on the crusade, Ms. Trento says, because of Mr. Gray's persuasive powers. (She notes elsewhere that Mr. Gray once helped secure a job for Mr. Meese's wife, Ursula.)
 
For a fee of more than $10 million, Mr. Gray's office at Hill & Knowlton waged a lobbying campaign for Kuwait in an effort to manipulate public opinion in favor of an American invasion. The campaign was effective, although eventually Hill & Knowlton was severely embarrassed: the firm had arranged for a young woman to present emotional testimony before a Congressional panel about Iraqis killing Kuwaiti babies by removing them from incubators. Later, it was revealed that she was really the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/23/books/darth-vader-of-the-lobbyists.html

oberliner (19,288 posts)

9. The total cost for the WH under George W. Bush in 2008 came to $1.6 billion dollars


The Obama White House spent $0.2 billion less, or a net savings of $200 million dollars.
 
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40980_About_That_Taxpayers_Spent_$1.4_Billion_on_Obama_Family_Last_Year_Fake_Outrage

 

[formerlurker]

Ohh I misunderstood your post then, I thought you were saying that was the messiah's expenses. Can you ever forgive me? 

   maybe.....


 

[Skul]

LGF???   Complete has-been.
One day of relavance, and that sucker thought himself king of the world.
Pony-tailed pedal pushing portly panderer soon found his pontificating PO'd the normal people.
Yo, Charles, pound sand you low life POS.

Go take another silly picture of your bicycle seat, or something. DUmbass.

[Ballygrl]

I am thinking that perhaps the messiah's list of expenses is a wee bit different - WTF happened to LGF?  when did they go leftist?

LGF went nutso years ago, maybe 5 years ago?