Michelle Obama, daughters, to Spring Break in Japan, Cambodia on YOUR $$$$

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Michelle Obama is taking her daughters on a Spring Break trip to Japan and Cambodia this month, the latest global vacation to share the world's culture with Sasha and Malia while giving the first lady a stage to promote education for girls. [Snip] Costs of the first family's trip have been controversial and this one is likely to be very expensive. The first lady's group, for example, spent $222,000 for just two days of hotel expenses during part of their China trip last year. Judicial Watch, the taxpayer watchdog group, estimated that the Obama vacation tab as of mid-2014 was...
 
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Want us to reach into the Wayback File and audit prior Presidents' vacation spending? Or no?

I have no problem with that, run with it you dumb liberal hack!

Obama Family and Staff Cost Taxpayers 1.4 Billion in 2011

Obama s Summer Vacation Costs Taxpayers 37 Billion LOLOLOL

Obama s Family Vacations to Cost Taxpayers More Than 20 Million

Not surprising instead of burying me with facts from reputable sources you have to call me names and use partisan ones.

"Hack" hehe, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
 
Wouldn't surprise me at all.

Once those two fucks leave the WH they will be traveling on their own dime. Best to get all that traveling in while we the taxpayers are footing her very expensive bills.
 
"Calls to several Presidential libraries reveal that President Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, was on vacation more — 1,020 days — than any U.S. President since Herbert Hoover and possibly more than any other President in history.

Even President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was in office 12 years from 1933 to 1945, was on vacation less days than President Bush at 958 days. Calls to several Presidential Libraries reveal that no President can come close to Bush’s 1,020 days on vacation in an 8 year period. Even Lyndon Johnson, who spent 484 days at his ranch in Texas and at Camp David during his presidency, came in under Bush’s vacation time.

President Bush spent 32% of his presidency on vacation.

President Obama was on vacation for 26 days during his first year in office (2009). Ronald Reagan spent 42 days on vacation during his first year in office (1981). President George H.W. Bush was on vacation less than his son, 40 days, in 1989, his first year in office. President Obama was on vacation less in his first year in office than the previous three Republican Presidents.

No President since Reagan was on vacation less than Bill Clinton. Presidents Clinton and Carter vacationed the least of any of the last seven chief executives."
Obama s Vacations Of Any President Bush Racked Up the Most Politic365

"The problem is that W. wasn’t thrifty. He was the most expensive vacation president in US history. Not only did Bush spend more days on vacation than any other president, but he used Air Force One more often while on vacation than any other president."
Bush Spent 5 Times More On Flights To Texas Than Obama s Christmas Vacation Costs PoliticusUSA s Archives

" 3. George W. Bush took more vacation days than any other president.

During his eight-year presidency, Bush did take 879 days of vacation, including 77 trips to his Texas ranch. So far, Obama has taken about 150 days off. But our founders were away even more.

During his first two years in office, President John Adams was criticized for making two lengthy trips to his home in Quincy, Mass., taking him away from the capital, which was then Philadelphia, for a total of eight months. Adams left Philadelphia to avoid a yellow-fever outbreak and then to care for his ill wife, Abigail. And his absence came at a time when the United States nearly went to war with France.

Even during the Civil War, historian Matthew Pinsker points out, President Abraham Lincoln spent 25 percent of his time, including fully half of 1862, at the Soldiers’ Home near Washington’s Petworth and Park View neighborhoods. Pinsker says Lincoln especially enjoyed going there on hot days because the cottage where he stayed was shaded and the slightly higher elevation picked up cool breezes absent from the White House.

There seems to be no correlation between vacation days and a president’s legacy. No modern president took less vacation than Jimmy Carter (79 days), while Ronald Reagan spent 335 days at his beloved California ranch. President John F. Kennedy spent nearly every weekend of his shortened presidency at one of his family’s several properties. FDR made 134 trips to Hyde Park and spent an additional six months of his presidency in Warm Springs, Ga., where he treated symptoms of his polio. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage while vacationing at Warm Springs on April 12, 1945.

4. Taxpayers foot the bill for presidential vacations.

Presidents pay for their own and their families’ lodging, food and incidentals while on vacation, which may be why they generally prefer to stay at properties they own, as guests of wealthy friends or at the official presidential retreat at Camp David.

But since presidential vacations are always working vacations, taxpayers cover what it takes to keep the commander in chief working. Lodging and meals are an extra cost, but taxpayers pay the salaries of White House staffers and Secret Service agents whether the president stays in Washington or not, so a presidential vacation does not significantly increase personnel costs.

The biggest additional expense is the use of Air Force One and the support aircraft needed to haul all the equipment and ground transportation the president needs. The Congressional Research Service estimated that the cost of operating Air Force One is nearly $180,000 per hour. Ultimately, a presidential vacation can cost taxpayers an additional $1 million or considerably more than if the president had just stayed put in the White House. How significant this is within a $3.5 trillion federal budget is something voters can decide for themselves."
Five myths about presidential vacations - The Washington Post
 
Want us to reach into the Wayback File and audit prior Presidents' vacation spending? Or no?

I have no problem with that, run with it you dumb liberal hack!

Obama Family and Staff Cost Taxpayers 1.4 Billion in 2011

Obama s Summer Vacation Costs Taxpayers 37 Billion LOLOLOL

Obama s Family Vacations to Cost Taxpayers More Than 20 Million

Not surprising instead of burying me with facts from reputable sources you have to call me names and use partisan ones.

"Hack" hehe, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

What are the links, Mr. bipartisan...FACTS?
 
"Calls to several Presidential libraries reveal that President Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, was on vacation more — 1,020 days — than any U.S. President since Herbert Hoover and possibly more than any other President in history.

Even President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was in office 12 years from 1933 to 1945, was on vacation less days than President Bush at 958 days. Calls to several Presidential Libraries reveal that no President can come close to Bush’s 1,020 days on vacation in an 8 year period. Even Lyndon Johnson, who spent 484 days at his ranch in Texas and at Camp David during his presidency, came in under Bush’s vacation time.

President Bush spent 32% of his presidency on vacation.

President Obama was on vacation for 26 days during his first year in office (2009). Ronald Reagan spent 42 days on vacation during his first year in office (1981). President George H.W. Bush was on vacation less than his son, 40 days, in 1989, his first year in office. President Obama was on vacation less in his first year in office than the previous three Republican Presidents.

No President since Reagan was on vacation less than Bill Clinton. Presidents Clinton and Carter vacationed the least of any of the last seven chief executives."
Obama s Vacations Of Any President Bush Racked Up the Most Politic365

"The problem is that W. wasn’t thrifty. He was the most expensive vacation president in US history. Not only did Bush spend more days on vacation than any other president, but he used Air Force One more often while on vacation than any other president."
Bush Spent 5 Times More On Flights To Texas Than Obama s Christmas Vacation Costs PoliticusUSA s Archives

" 3. George W. Bush took more vacation days than any other president.

During his eight-year presidency, Bush did take 879 days of vacation, including 77 trips to his Texas ranch. So far, Obama has taken about 150 days off. But our founders were away even more.

During his first two years in office, President John Adams was criticized for making two lengthy trips to his home in Quincy, Mass., taking him away from the capital, which was then Philadelphia, for a total of eight months. Adams left Philadelphia to avoid a yellow-fever outbreak and then to care for his ill wife, Abigail. And his absence came at a time when the United States nearly went to war with France.

Even during the Civil War, historian Matthew Pinsker points out, President Abraham Lincoln spent 25 percent of his time, including fully half of 1862, at the Soldiers’ Home near Washington’s Petworth and Park View neighborhoods. Pinsker says Lincoln especially enjoyed going there on hot days because the cottage where he stayed was shaded and the slightly higher elevation picked up cool breezes absent from the White House.

There seems to be no correlation between vacation days and a president’s legacy. No modern president took less vacation than Jimmy Carter (79 days), while Ronald Reagan spent 335 days at his beloved California ranch. President John F. Kennedy spent nearly every weekend of his shortened presidency at one of his family’s several properties. FDR made 134 trips to Hyde Park and spent an additional six months of his presidency in Warm Springs, Ga., where he treated symptoms of his polio. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage while vacationing at Warm Springs on April 12, 1945.

4. Taxpayers foot the bill for presidential vacations.

Presidents pay for their own and their families’ lodging, food and incidentals while on vacation, which may be why they generally prefer to stay at properties they own, as guests of wealthy friends or at the official presidential retreat at Camp David.

But since presidential vacations are always working vacations, taxpayers cover what it takes to keep the commander in chief working. Lodging and meals are an extra cost, but taxpayers pay the salaries of White House staffers and Secret Service agents whether the president stays in Washington or not, so a presidential vacation does not significantly increase personnel costs.

The biggest additional expense is the use of Air Force One and the support aircraft needed to haul all the equipment and ground transportation the president needs. The Congressional Research Service estimated that the cost of operating Air Force One is nearly $180,000 per hour. Ultimately, a presidential vacation can cost taxpayers an additional $1 million or considerably more than if the president had just stayed put in the White House. How significant this is within a $3.5 trillion federal budget is something voters can decide for themselves."
Five myths about presidential vacations - The Washington Post

Not about days...it's about COSTS, are you people this stupid?... Sorry, silly question!
 
Want us to reach into the Wayback File and audit prior Presidents' vacation spending? Or no?

I have no problem with that, run with it you dumb liberal hack!

Obama Family and Staff Cost Taxpayers 1.4 Billion in 2011

Obama s Summer Vacation Costs Taxpayers 37 Billion LOLOLOL

Obama s Family Vacations to Cost Taxpayers More Than 20 Million

Not surprising instead of burying me with facts from reputable sources you have to call me names and use partisan ones.

"Hack" hehe, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

What are the links, Mr. bipartisan...FACTS?


Where's the proof of your idiotic OP that says they spend more than $3 MILLION a DAY??
 
Want us to reach into the Wayback File and audit prior Presidents' vacation spending? Or no?

I have no problem with that, run with it you dumb liberal hack!

Ah...insults


a blog


Newsmax. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Disprove them... I'll gladly read DU, or Salon, or HuffPo....:badgrin::badgrin::badgrin::badgrin::badgrin:
 
Want us to reach into the Wayback File and audit prior Presidents' vacation spending? Or no?

I have no problem with that, run with it you dumb liberal hack!

Ah...insults


a blog


Newsmax. :lol: :lol: :lol:


With NO documentation.

Not one fact to be found.
 
Want us to reach into the Wayback File and audit prior Presidents' vacation spending? Or no?

I have no problem with that, run with it you dumb liberal hack!

Obama Family and Staff Cost Taxpayers 1.4 Billion in 2011

Obama s Summer Vacation Costs Taxpayers 37 Billion LOLOLOL

Obama s Family Vacations to Cost Taxpayers More Than 20 Million

Not surprising instead of burying me with facts from reputable sources you have to call me names and use partisan ones.

"Hack" hehe, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

What are the links, Mr. bipartisan...FACTS?


Where's the proof of your idiotic OP that says they spend more than $3 MILLION a DAY??

Dispute it with YOUR facts and links.... easy Muttley...DO IT!
 
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