Michelle Obama's Ski Trip Cost Taxpayers $83,000...

[paulitician]

A February 2012 ski trip enjoyed by first lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters cost taxpayers at least $83,000, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch.

The total cost of the President’s Day weekend getaway was at least $83,182.99. The largest expense was $48,950.38 for Secret Service protection, which included accommodations at the Fasching Haus deluxe condominium and the Inn at Aspen.

The cost of transportation was also hefty. Using official Department of Defense hourly rates, Judicial Watch estimated that the flights cost $22,583.70. This didn’t include in-flight purchases costing $235.44. The cost of rental cars was $6,442.23.

While the cost of the trip was high, it hardly compares to some of the other trips the Obamas have taken, including a vacation to Spain that cost $467,585 and a trip to Africa costing $424,142.

Read more: Michelle Obama's ski trip cost taxpayers $83,000 | The Daily Caller

 

[Warrior102]

Unfucking believable...

 

[Some Guy]

Fuck Romney! That rich bastard!

 

[theHawk]

A February 2012 ski trip enjoyed by first lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters cost taxpayers at least $83,000, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch.

The total cost of the President’s Day weekend getaway was at least $83,182.99. The largest expense was $48,950.38 for Secret Service protection, which included accommodations at the Fasching Haus deluxe condominium and the Inn at Aspen.

The cost of transportation was also hefty. Using official Department of Defense hourly rates, Judicial Watch estimated that the flights cost $22,583.70. This didn’t include in-flight purchases costing $235.44. The cost of rental cars was $6,442.23.

While the cost of the trip was high, it hardly compares to some of the other trips the Obamas have taken, including a vacation to Spain that cost $467,585 and a trip to Africa costing $424,142.

Read more: Michelle Obama's ski trip cost taxpayers $83,000 | The Daily Caller

I'm surprised you beat TM to the punch. She is usually on top of the fiscal responsibility of politicians - http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/234648-tea-party-hypocrites.html

 

[AquaAthena]

A February 2012 ski trip enjoyed by first lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters cost taxpayers at least $83,000, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch.

The total cost of the President’s Day weekend getaway was at least $83,182.99. The largest expense was $48,950.38 for Secret Service protection, which included accommodations at the Fasching Haus deluxe condominium and the Inn at Aspen.

The cost of transportation was also hefty. Using official Department of Defense hourly rates, Judicial Watch estimated that the flights cost $22,583.70. This didn’t include in-flight purchases costing $235.44. The cost of rental cars was $6,442.23.

While the cost of the trip was high, it hardly compares to some of the other trips the Obamas have taken, including a vacation to Spain that cost $467,585 and a trip to Africa costing $424,142.

Read more: Michelle Obama's ski trip cost taxpayers $83,000 | The Daily Caller

Soon, any of the Obamas' skiing will be downhill for once and all, on the taxpayer's dime....

 

[Some Guy]

It must be nice to be a celebrity of Michelle Obama's stature.

 

[DiamondDave]

Well.. no matter where the first family goes, secret service protection is gonna cost ya... so I don't consider that as something to scream about

Nor do I think the first family traveling somewhere is inherently bad...

BUT.. when everything is about the bad shape of the economy, people having a rough time, etc... this probably was not the smartest move to make

 

[AmericanFirst]

It must be nice to be a celebrity of Michelle Obama's stature.

Her stature is butt kissing her husband to get camera time to spew more of her stupidity.

 

[Care4all]

It's hard to believe judicial watch's take on this, when ALL OTHER faux outrage over Obama air force one flights and vacations have been PROVEN false....plus I searched the partisan Judicial Watch's site to see if they had any articles or reporting on President bush's traveling or Laura Bush's travel costs and THEY DIDN'T....

THAT alone should tell ya something...that is, IF you are paying attention.

FactCheck.org : The Traveling President

A Continuing Pattern​

These latest chain e-mails are part of a continuing pattern of indignant, anonymous authors spreading false and misleading claims about the travels of the president and the first lady.


In November 2010, we wrote about the "highly doubtful" claim that Obama's trip to India would cost $200 million each day. That figure was based on only one report from an Indian news organization that cited an unnamed official, with no additional evidence to support the claim. The White House called the claim "wildly exaggerated."


In July 2009, we wrote about another chain e-mail that complained that the first lady used taxpayer money to take her daughters and her mother on a European vacation. While taxpayers were on the hook for some of the cost of transporting the first family, and for providing security for them, no taxpayer money was used for their personal expenses.


In October 2008, we wrote about the false claim that Michelle Obama spent nearly $450 on room service at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City that year. Not only did Obama not stay at that hotel when she was in the city, according to her husband's then-presidential campaign, she hadn't yet arrived in New York by the time the bogus receipt claimed she had ordered room service.
– D'Angelo Gore

To put Obama's use of Air Force One into context, we also asked for travel data for his predecessor, President George W. Bush. Bush took 89 missions and 259 sorties in 2002, his second year as president, according to the airlift group. And in his first two years, Bush took 148 missions with 416 sorties, compared with 126 missions with 324 sorties for Obama over two years.

and then there is all the whining about Obama's travels abroad:

Obama's Travels Abroad​

When Obama traveled to London in March 2009 to attend a meeting of the G-20 nations, it was part of a longer eight-day trip across Europe, in which the president visited five countries total, including stops in France, Germany, Turkey and the Czech Republic. Several British news organizations, citing unnamed officials, reported that Obama was traveling with an entourage of as many as 500 people when he arrived in London, the first stop of the trip.

A column written by Dale McFeatters of the Scripps Howard News Service in 2009 also made the claim that "Obama arrived with 500 staff in tow, including 200 Secret Service agents, a team of six doctors, the White House chef and kitchen staff with the president's own food and water." That column is included in a chain e-mail that has been forwarded to us dozens of times in the last year. McFeatters also wrote: "And, according to the Evening Standard, he also came with '35 vehicles in all, four speech writers and 12 teleprompters.' "

We have not been able to independently confirm any of the figures reported by McFeatters or members of the British press. The White House would not comment on details of presidential travel, a spokeswoman told us. Both the White House and the Secret Service typically cite security concerns in declining to comment. But if the figures about the number of individuals traveling with the president are indeed accurate, it would not be anything new for a modern U.S. president on an overseas trip.


When President Bush traveled to England in the fall of 2003 for a state visit, the Guardian reported that "Mr. Bush, his wife, Laura, and a 700-strong entourage worthy of a travelling medieval monarch, flew into Heathrow airport." And the Telegraph broke it down further, reporting that "Mr. Bush will be accompanied by a retinue consisting of 250 members of the Secret Service, 150 advisers from the National Security Department, 200 representatives of other government departments and 50 political aides." Also traveling with the president were "his personal chef, personal assistants, four cooks, medics and the presidential 15-strong sniffer dog team," according to the report.

I suppose it would be better if we forced Secret Service to work for free, just for having the privilege of the job, or only pay them when they are guarding a Republican President, is that what you want? seriously, don't you ever get sick of your own whining tantrum fits?

Do you all tend to speak, before you do diligent research?

Granted, sometimes even I do! But for the most part, at least I try to research things before I speak out and show the 'rage'(post)....

The President and the First Lady should not be quarantined for 4-8 years in the White House...unless you are a Democratic President, I suppose?

 

[Plasmaball]

oh good more tabloid politics. god you people whine about everything.

 

[Warrior102]

It costs a lot of money to fly that fat broad around.

 

[Full-Auto]

Fuck Romney! That rich bastard!

You need to keep sucking that fat one.........

 

[ClosedCaption]

How dare they have Secret Service? Waaaaaa!

 

[sealybobo]

Unfucking believable...

THE ‘LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE’ OF THE FIRST FAMILY’S TRAVEL SCHEDULE ― THAT’S COSTING TAXPAYERS “Barely a month into the Trump presidency, the unusually elaborate lifestyle of America’s new first family is straining the Secret Service and security officials, stirring financial and logistical concerns in several local communities, and costing far beyond what has been typical for past presidents — a price tag that, based on past assessments of presidential travel and security costs, could balloon into the hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a four-year term.

Trump family’s elaborate lifestyle is a ‘logistical nightmare’ — at taxpayer expense

Where is your outrage?

 

[Mr Natural]

Or roughly $0.00083 for each of us taxpayers.

We should be outraged!

 

[sealybobo]

Or roughly $0.00083 for each of us taxpayers.

We should be outraged!

If you don't mind that Trump will spend hundreds of millions of dollars traveling in 4 years then why did you cry about Michelle spending $80,000. Do you know how many more zero's are in a hundred million? I don't but it's a lot. LOL

 

[sealybobo]

How dare they have Secret Service? Waaaaaa!

On Saturday, Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr., with their Secret Service details in tow, will be nearly 8,000 miles away in the United Arab Emirates, attending the grand opening of a Trump-brand golf resort in the “Beverly Hills of Dubai.”

 

[sealybobo]

They say Trump isn't taking a paycheck but he's still going to cost us a billion dollars.

 

[Mr Natural]

Or roughly $0.00083 for each of us taxpayers.

We should be outraged!

If you don't mind that Trump will spend hundreds of millions of dollars traveling in 4 years then why did you cry about Michelle spending $80,000. Do you know how many more zero's are in a hundred million? I don't but it's a lot. LOL

You do realize that $0.00083 is not even a penny?

 

[sealybobo]

Or roughly $0.00083 for each of us taxpayers.

We should be outraged!

If you don't mind that Trump will spend hundreds of millions of dollars traveling in 4 years then why did you cry about Michelle spending $80,000. Do you know how many more zero's are in a hundred million? I don't but it's a lot. LOL

You do realize that $0.00083 is not even a penny?

All of the sudden the purse strings loosen just as I predicted. Not so frugal anymore huh? Wow