as the economy continues to struggle and the government struggles with no solution in sight for the fiscal cliff....here's how Obama responds: Spoiler he plans a 20 day vacation at a $4M cost to US taxpayers. Un-facking believable Spoiler http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/1...f-obama-plans-a-20-day-4mil-hawaiian-holiday/ As America worries about the Fiscal Cliff, Obama plans a 20-Day, $4mil Hawaiian holiday Posted on November 30, 2012 at 9:34am by Mike Opelka Mike Opelka Print » Email » Comments (1) The Obamas are about to embark on a 20 day Hawaiian vacation that will run from December 17th to January 6th. The cost to U.S. taxpayers will be around $4 million. I’m pretty comfortable with the President of the United States having more vacation time than the average person. He’s got a big job to do. It just seems a bit extravagant to be handing taxpayers a $4 million expense as the country is worried about the Fiscal Cliff and the future of our economy. If you think the $4mil cost is overblown, let’s look at the breakdown of the expenses to be paid by ordinary citizens, as it is being reported in Hawaii: Obamas plan a 20 day $4 million dollar taxpayer paid vacation Credit: AP TRAVEL: $3,529,622 The biggest expense is President Barack Obama’s round trip flight to Hawaii via Air Force One. The U.S. Air Force has listed the cost of travel as high as $181,757 per flight hour. Travel time for Air Force One direct from Washington D.C. to Hawaii is about 9 hours or as high as $1,635,813 each way for a total of $3,271,622 for the round trip to Hawaii and back. There’s also a cargo plane needed to bring various vehicles to wherever the President will be for an extended period of time. The cost to bring the cargo plane back and forth is estimated to be $258,000. LOCAL TAXPAYER COSTS: $260,000 Local police are paid overtime for the President’s visit, which has historically cost Oahu taxpayers $250,000. (We’re not adding in the cost of the Secret Service detail, Navy SEALs, Coast Guard, and White House staff who must also be flown back and forth and housed in a beachfront hotel. This President and any American President deserves the best protection and support that money can buy.) The locals and seasonal visitors will also face significant travel restrictions during the 20 days that the Obamas will be staying in Kailua. How many vacation days do you get each year? For the record, I get two weeks of paid vacation each year… 10 days. And that’s right in line with government stats.
Merry Christmas Mr. President! A very well earned break after a grueling year of putting up with the right wings endless attack dogs. The right better man-up and get this stuff done before the 17th. Time to stop dragging their feet.
I read this title as, The Blacks are lazy. Nice job texx Anyways, who will run the government while Obama is out of town? We're doomed!!
texxx is attempting to troll big time. By including 'lazy' in his thread title he's trying to play on stereotypes while maintaining plausible deniability. Please don't feed the troll.
And of course the early responses from the liberals are to throw the race card. Criticism of Obama isn't automatically racist, guys -- think more critically. It's too easy to just toss the race card when you don't have a logical defense. and yeah, when there's work to do and you decide you'd rather take a vacation, that's lazy. No two ways about it.
Because calling a black man lazy for going on Christmas vacation has no race card implications. :grin:
what a reach I would call Jimmy Carter lazy if he were the President and did the same thing at this critical point
Perhaps if you didn't have a history of trolling & race-baiting and didn't start another completely worthless thread with an inflammatory title, people might take you seriously. When you fire bullets with a thread title like this, expect to be shot at.
lol nobody is defending Obama instead they are trying to claim that the word "lazy" is racist nuff said
Defending him for going on Christmas vacation? Why would anyone have to defend that? How pathetic that you would even bother to post this trash.
I didn't you just mad because for the first time in years theres a president thats worked for his vacation.
You think the majority of America is lazy? That is an extremely un-American thing to say. If you don't love this country feel free to leave.
No what im saying is all the people who sit on their ass and collect government welfare checks are lazy and unfortunately theres a ton of them in America.
