Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year, perks questioned in new book

Some pigs are more equal.

Obama gonna get free limo rides when he's the regular fill in for David Letterman
 
Yea...

... Granny realizes the girls is gettin' to be teenagers now...

... but she don't think a Chippendales appearance...

... is appropriate inna Rose Garden.
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The Daily Caller? Isn't that a right wing site? (Yes)
Now for an objective look at this new thing that the right wing decided might be good to rile up the ever loyal goose-steppers who can be counted on to not check up facts.
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Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that Obama isn’t the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in.
Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4 billion spent on the Obama family last year is the “total cost of the presidency,” factoring the cost of the “biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever,” a 50 percent increase in the numbers of appointed czars and an Air Force One “running with the frequency of a scheduled air line.”
Gray doesn’t say where he came up with this number, but one presumes it comes from the Federal Budget. It’s a lot of money, of course, and it’s caused no small degree of outrage on conservative blogs. There’s just one problem, Gray’s assertion that costs associated with the Presidency have “tremendously” increased since Obama took office simply isn’t true.

To establish that, we need only look at a paper produced by the Brookings Institution’s Bradley Patterson [PDF] in which, in one chapter, he lays out the question of what it costs to run the White House. The first point Patterson notes is that this isn’t an easy question to answer:

What are the annual dollar costs, for a typical year, of operating the modern presidency—of running the White House, the whole White House? One of the reasons that question has never been answered (and perhaps never even asked) is because the pathway to the answer is so complicated. One may start with the tab “White House Office” in the annual congressional budget submission of the Executive Office of the President, but that is only an initial fraction. In addition, twenty-two other budget accounts, thirteen of them in other departments, or parts of departments, pay the expenses, and the salaries, of men and women who are in fact members of the White House staff family. Not only are those costs scattered through those twenty-two other budgets, but in at least nine of them the dollars are not in any fashion identified as White House. Realistic estimates have to be made.
Patterson attempted to do that for the Fiscal Year 2008 budget and came up with a figure of $1,592,875,254. This does not include classified outlays for things such as Air Force One. One assumes that the figured that Gray came up with also omits these classified figures. The first thing that jumps out, of course, is that the cost that Patterson came up with for Fiscal Year 2008, when Bush was President, is more than the figure that Gray provides. Since we don’t know exactly how Gray calculated his figures, we can’t say that this ends the debate since he could have left off items that Patterson included, which would be odd since he seems to have started out with the assumption that the President dramatically increased the cost of the Presidency. Nonetheless, it seems rather obvious from comparing these two figures that the assertion that the costs to the taxpayer associated with the Presidency have increased “tremendously” under President Obama are, quite simply, wrong.
For more: The Presidency Costs Taxpayers A Lot, But That’s Not Obama’s Fault
 
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hes just a regular guy who knows how to relate to the average joe, hes their kinda guy living life on their dime. way to go libs.
 
"They be da first blacks in da White House sooz theyz goin to git dem sum before itz too late."

Payback for slavery in their minds.

Give him 4 more years and he will start the open payments for slavery to blacks.....
 
Probably right out of the same braintrust that helped Michele Bachmann come up with that 200 million dollars a day figure for that overseas trip the president made.

The Daily Caller is fasttracking itself into Worldnet Daily land at record speeds.
 
Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year | The Daily Caller


Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks.
Obama sure is living it up while others suffer..

The gov't spends money to entertain presidents? I was always under the impression that entertainers went to the WH (regardless who was president) and entertained the president and the first family for free, in part, because it was such a great honor to be invited in the first place.

Additionally, I have no idea how accurate or inaccurate the $1.4 billion figure is, but my guess is that a great deal of that cost involves multiple layers of security. With that said, who in this country (as in which group of people) seems to harbor such hostility toward the president and his wife that it borders on a pathology? (Hint: You can tune in to your local amplitude modulation frequencies to hear plenty of anti-Obama rhetoric, pretty much any time day or night.)
 
I'd be more than happy to pay the next President a base salary of 1 Billion dollars a year if he'd just follow the f*ckin' Constitution!
 
FORMER PRESIDENTS COST TO TAX PAYERS.
Former Presidents Cost The Government $3.7 Million Last Year.
(and Guess Who The Biggest Spender was?)

That covers a pension, compensation and benefits for office staff, and the government also picks up the tab for other costs like travel, office space and postage.

The most expensive of the bunch was the former President who was most recently in the White House, as George W. Bush clocked in last year with just over $1.3million in costs.

The $3.7million taxpayers shelled out in 2012 is about $200,000 less than in 2011, and the sum in 2010 was even higher.

The cost totals for ex-president don't include what the Secret Service spends protecting them, their spouses and children. Those costs are part of a separate budget that isn't made public.

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Ps. Even Malia and Sasha deserve a spring break. Begrudging these children a vacation?
 
Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year | The Daily Caller


Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks.


Obama sure is living it up while others suffer..

You listen to people like Bachman too much.

You see Black presidents get to have the same things white presidents do
 
I'd be more than happy to pay the next President a base salary of 1 Billion dollars a year if he'd just follow the f*ckin' Constitution!

The Constitution is not written in blood and not the word of GOD. Obsolete and need to be re written. Not worth the paper is was written on.
"I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."

"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."

"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"

Bush - Constitution 'Just A Goddamned Piece Of Paper'
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come on now, why should we complain?

It takes money to take care of a King and Queen
 

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