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Obama Plans 20-day, $4 million Vacation

A president takes a vacation! Amazing!

Glad Reagan didn't take any vacations.

Considering he was essentially comatose for the last couple of years, he actually did just fine.
 
Run Forest Run! If you can't even answer a simply question of what I haven't answered, keep running.

Not my problem :)

It is now.

Here they are (as per yer request):

1-'Why can he not do all this after 2016 and give the $4 million he saves to the poor?

2- What, living in the White House is too confining?

3-I will ask you again, do you not think it would be a great gesture at Christmas for Obama to forgo this trip and spend that saved millions of dollars at local food banks/shelters/make a Wish foundations/ etc?

Yes or no, please?

4-I asked you what happens if the POTUS does not use all of the travel/security budget allocated to him? Prove to me why it cannot be allocated elsewhere?

5-He cannot vacation near to home?

He has just GOT to fly 4800 miles or he will drop dead from exhaustion?

6-Are you seriously suggesting that when a President incurs less travel expenses one year over the last one that the government, if it does exactly the same things otherwise, will still have exactly the same spending costs?


Not that I really care that much now what you think - but you asked for these...now please answer them.


Have a less trolling day.
 
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Honestly. Do you actually believe the POTUS ever really gets a day off?

You righties sure are desperate.

Well as a "rightie" I'd sure like to know what you think I might be desparate about?


Tim-
 
There is plenty of room on Canada - feel free to move.

Maybe they have room for an such a high caliber expert on US Presidential behavior.
No thanks we don't him.
 
while we're on the subject of vacation :

http://majorityleader.gov/113thCongress1stSession.pdf

now, i understand some of that time off has to be devoted to getting yelled at in town hall meetings and being courted by lobbyists, but just damn.

keep burning that candle at both ends, congress. lol
 
Most of that cost is what it would cost him to visit ANYWHERE else in the U.S. The restrictions, secret-service, etc. are all costs that happen no matter where the president is.

Don't like a president visiting his place of birth, don't vote for someone from Hawaii. Funny though, I can't seem to find any posts from you complaining about GOP president travels and costs, I wonder why that is?

because they were special and its not the same thing at all.
 
Because much of that 4 million is cost that is ALREADY being paid for simply by him being president. Do you think they don't have secret service at the white house? Do you think they don't keep Airforce one on standby?

Seriously, it's hilarious watching many people think the president should just stay in the white house like that doesn't incur costs in itself.

Maybe he equates the PRez taking a trip with him taking one. After all they are both citizens. right?
 
There is plenty of room on Canada - feel free to move.

Maybe they have room for an such a high caliber expert on US Presidential behavior.

And I hear they have really interesting gun laws there too.
 
Wish I could take vacations when I had work to do.

And you don't think he doesn't How?

Daily briefings, meetings (internet), papers to work on and sign. I know of no president not even Johnson who did not work on their vacations
 
I get that all presidents do this, but I don't understand why they're allowed to without paying for it themselves. They make 300k a year, yet take vacations worth 13 times their yearly salary?

And how is this different from Congress, SCOTUS or any other high ranking government official. You think they actually take fact finding visits? or junkits? uh HUH.
 
Obama himself said he inherited the worst economy since the great depression and that very same economy is still with us. As hoards of Americans go on food stamps, lose their homes, have their unemployment insurance run out and go to the food bank for a crappy Thanksgiving meal Obama takes two 727s to Hawaii on a 20 day 4 mill luxury vacation. That's right TWO jets instead of the one that every other president has used. Apparently obama needs a special cargo jet for his toys. He lives it up while America is "in the worst economy since the great depression", some leader huh. You'd think the man would show a little restraint in his spending. DISGUSTING!

Actually POTUS has 4. Two for him ready at all times and 2 for VPOTUS. If you looked into it you would know that. They are military planes not his. The Air force pays for and maintains them. They are inspected on a regular basis by Air Police and Secret Service.

The second jet you mentioned is for the rest of his staff and security personal and up front people. Absolutely nothing new there. I really don't know why you post this stuff when it can be so easily proven wrong.

BTW there are also 2 C-30 transport planes that go on ahead of him with cars and equipment and other personnel.

If you ever saw a Prez land at an airport you would see about 4 planes and about 2 or more local helicopters.

I have seen the Prez land at Green Bay and Milwaukee and in Grand Rapids. (mostly Clinton and Bush) and their plane was never lonely.
 
Lots of obama worshipers here trying to excuse this vacation to Hawaii by obama by saying it is his home. His home is Chicago. Face facts kids, he is spending as much as humanly possible on this vacation , if he wanted to go "home" to vacation he would go to Chicago like Bush went to his ranch in Texas and Reagan went to his in Calif. Those were cheap vacations where the pres went home not to some high priced vacation resort.

Reagan was from Illinois. Tell me i'm wrong. Obama was born in Hawaii. Bush one was born in Maine.
 
Well as a "rightie" I'd sure like to know what you think I might be desparate about?


Tim-

Pretending that the president taking a vacation is an issue. It shows how intellectually bankrupt conservatives have become. Basically conservatism is a joke.
 
Touche' :mrgreen:

I apologize for offending one of our Northern brethren.

If your not an Obama/Green Party/Justice Party supporter you not welcome here. We don't want Johnson supporters either or just Libertarians in general.
 
I think the GOP should be renamed to the GOW. Grand Old Whiners. Good lord! Christian Brother's cannot hold a candle to the amount of whines being produced by conservatives.
 
Did you forget about the War on Terror?

Yeah, he crashed that too.

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02


The only thing Bush didn't crash was that jet when he landed on an aircraft carrier and claimed "mission accomplished." Regrettablly.
 
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