Let Them Eat Cake: Obamas’ 17-Day Vacation to Cost $4 Million

[busybody..]

Let Them Eat Cake: Obamas’ 17-Day Vacation to Cost $4 Million




Eat it.


KAILUA, OAHU — The U.S. Secret Service has arrived, street barricades are in place, and the U.S. Coast Guard has stationed itself in the waters surrounding Kailua, Oahu. That is a sure sign President Barack Obama’s security team is preparing for the first family to arrive in the small beachside community as early as Friday night for what is expected to be a 17-day vacation.

The President and his family are traveling separately to Hawaii because he wants resolve the payroll tax cut issue before leaving Washington — and his wife does not want to wait.

But the advanced trip and the cost that comes with it — as much as $100,000 (flight and security) — adds to an already expensive vacation for the taxpayers.

Hawaii Reporter research shows the total cost for the President’s visit for taxpayers far exceeded $1.5 million in 2010 — but is even more costly this year because he extended his vacation by three days and the cost for Air Force One travel has jumped since last assessed in 2000. In addition, Hawaii Reporter was able to obtain more specifics about the executive expenditures.

The total cost (based on what is known) for the 17-day vacation roundtrip vacation to Hawaii for the President, his family and staff has climbed to more than $4 million. Here’s why.

TRAVEL: $3,651,626
The biggest expense is President Barack Obama’s round trip flight to Hawaii via Air Force One, a cost the GAO office estimated at $1 million in the year 2000. Contacted today, the GAO confirmed there is no report the independent office affiliated with Congress has prepared since 2000 to operate Air Force One and Air Force Two.

 

[phrodeau]

Source: some unnamed reporter in an obscure Indian newspaper.

 

[koalabear]

Hey BB, you have some lil yellow neck guy following you around.

 

[busybody..]

Yup, India

Source: some unnamed reporter in an obscure Indian newspaper.

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/with-...-of-obama’s-annual-hawaiian-holiday-rises/123

With More Vacation Days and Separate Travel, Price of Obama’s Annual Hawaiian Holiday Rises

BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - KAILUA, OAHU - The U.S. Secret Service has arrived, street barricades are in place, and the U.S. Coast Guard has stationed itself in the waters surrounding Kailua, Oahu. That is a sure sign President Barack Obama’s security team is preparing for the first family to arrive in the small beachside community as early as Friday night for what is expected to be a 17-day vacation.

The President and his family are traveling separately to Hawaii because he wants resolve the payroll tax cut issue before leaving Washington – and his wife does not want to wait.

But the advanced trip and the cost that comes with it – as much as $100,000 (flight and security) – adds to an already expensive vacation for the taxpayers.

Hawaii Reporter research shows the total cost for the President’s visit for taxpayers far exceeded $1.5 million in 2010 – but is even more costly this year because he extended his vacation by three days and the cost for Air Force One travel has jumped since last assessed in 2000. In addition, Hawaii Reporter was able to obtain more specifics about the executive expenditures.

The total cost (based on what is known) for the 17-day vacation roundtrip vacation to Hawaii for the President, his family and staff has climbed to more than $4 million. Here's why.

TRAVEL: $3,651,626

The biggest expense is President Barack Obama’s round trip flight to Hawaii via Air Force One, a cost the GAO office estimated at $1 million in the year 2000. Contacted today, the GAO confirmed there is no report the independent office affiliated with Congress has prepared since 2000 to operate Air Force One and Air Force Two.

However, the U.S. Air Force provides the most current numbers of $181,757 per flight hour. Travel time for Air Force One direct from Washington D.C. to Hawaii is about 9 hours or $1,635,813 each way for a total of $3,271,622 for the round trip to Hawaii and back.

The cost for USAF C-17 cargo aircraft that transports the Presidential limos, helicopters and other support equipment is not available to the public. However, the flight time between Andrews Air Force Base and Hawaii is at about 20 hours roundtrip, with estimated operating cost of $7,000 per hour (GAO report) for a total of $140,000 per roundtrip. The United States Marine Corps provides a presidential helicopter, along with pilots and support crews for the test flights, which travel on another C-17 flight at $140,000 for a total of $280,000.

Mrs. Obama’s early flight to Hawaii costs about $63,000 (White House Dossier), but add security and personnel for a total of about $100,000.

HOUSING: $151,200


Kailua Beach

The President and his family pay for their own beachfront rental (they are not staying in the Winter White House this year but rather a house on the same street further to the ocean point).

The Kailua rentals are fronted by the ocean and backed by a canal. So, the taxpayers must cover the costs for housing U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Coast Guard and Navy Seals in beach front and canal front homes in Kailua.

That costs about $1,200 a day ($200 allocated per bedroom per day). Since security arrives one day early, homes are rented for 18 days.

That is about $21,600 per home for approximately 7 houses rented at a total cost of $151,200 for security to stay nearby.



HOTEL: $72,216


Moana Surfrider Resort

The President’s staff and White House Press Corps stay at one of Hawaii’s oldest and most elegant hotels, the Moana Surfrider. Hawaii Reporter confirmed they are again staying there this year. Besides its stunningly beautiful view of Waikiki, and its traditional architecture, it is one of the most pricey hotels in the state.

Government rates are $177 per night, but that only is available during certain times a year.

Rooms typically start at $250 but can cost on average as much as $450 a night, and are even higher during the holidays. A hotel spokesperson did not return calls to confirm the rate the White House received.


View of Waikiki Beach from the Moana Surfrider Hotel

A conservative estimate with rooms at the government rate of $177 per day (excluding a 9.25 percent Transient Accommodation Tax and a 4.712 percent General Excise Tax on each bill, meals, internet charges and other charges) means the taxpayers are covering more than $72,216 in hotel bills for an estimated 24 staff.

LOCAL TAXPAYER COSTS: $260,000

Local police over time for the president’s visit has historically cost Oahu taxpayers $250,000 but may be more expensive this year with the extended vacation.

The city ambulance the accompanies the president 24 hours a day through his entire visit is $10,000, according to city spokeswoman Louise Kim McCoy.



UNKNOWN COSTS

There are several costs the White House annually refuses to release, citing security.
■For example, the president’s security usually rents an entire floor of an office building in Kailua on the canal during the president’s stay.
■There are security upgrades and additional phone lines to several private homes where Obama and friends are staying. That includes bullet proof glass installed, home security systems disabled, new security measures put into place and additional phone lines added.
■There is the cost for car rentals and fuel for White House staff staying at Moana Hotel.
■And there are additional travel costs Secret Service and White House staff traveling ahead of the President.

The total cost (based on what is known) for a 17-day round trip vacation to Hawaii for the President and his family and staff and security is an estimated $4,135,038.

Hawaii Reporter annually has requested details on the cost of the President’s trip, but the White House will not release any figures, citing security concerns. A spokesperson has maintained the costs are "in line" with other presidential vacations.

Hawaii Reporter has sought to determine the cost of vacations for the current president and last two presidents but the Government Accountability Office was able to provide those costs and referred Hawaii Reporter back to the White House spokesperson.

 

[phrodeau]

Is that the same paper that printed Obama's so-called birth announcement?

 

[koalabear]

Is that the same paper that printed Obama's so-called birth announcement?

So Oblamer wasn't born!

 

[busybody..]

Is that the same paper that printed Obama's so-called birth announcement?

MORON!

 

[busybody..]

How the One Percent Spend Your Money




Aloha, eh.

 

[busybody..]

White House Fields Question About Michelle’s Extravagant Vacations.

Abee! Abee! Abee! Buh-buh-buh-but….ummmm…..4 people in 2 jets? Nevermind peons! Next question!

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/white-house-fields-question-about-michelles-extravagant-vacations

 

[busybody..]

eat shit

pee ons

http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Obama-Michelle2.jpg

 

[busybody..]

I remember when Haiti had their horrible earthquake, and the people were living in the streets with no water or food, yet whenever a government official showed up, somehow the government people had clean clothing on and looked clean and well fed. This lavish vacation shows that Obama thinks of himself as a dictator of a third world country. Let them eat cake, indeed.

 

[busybody..]

Occupy to protest this lavish, unrestrained excess of the ruling 1% in:
3…
2…

Wait!

What party are they from?

Oh, never mind.

 

[busybody..]

 

[FloridaSmoothie]

What's sad about their HI Christmas vacations is all the staffers and Secret Service people they drag along, taking they away from their families during the holidays.

 

[phrodeau]

What's sad about their HI Christmas vacations is all the staffers and Secret Service people they drag along, taking they away from their families during the holidays.

Got any tears for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers stuck in Iraq the past eight Christmasses?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Now they're stuck in Kuwait...



I heard one fellow being interviewed by ABC.

It's hard coming home. Here, I'm nobody, there I'm somebody. Here I have nothing to offer, there I can see what I'm accomplishing.

Reporter (shocked): Would you rather be home or deployed?

Deployed...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I hope he uses his vacation to to begin working on his NCAA brackets, his backswing, and his three-point range jump hook...

 

[busybody..]

Got any tears for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers stuck in Iraq the past eight Christmasses?

when you cant defend NIGGER

you NIGGERIZE yourself

 

[phrodeau]

when you cant defend NIGGER

you NIGGERIZE yourself

You have hundreds of thousands of posts that you can't defend.

 

[busybody..]

you NIGGERIZE yourself

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Hill reported on Wednesday that President Barack Obama faces a "most difficult decision," namely whether to join his wife and children in Hawaii or to remain in Washington and, in the words of his dissembling press secretary, "to stay and work with Congress to ensure that Americans don't have their taxes go up."

Unreported by the Hill is that this is not the first Hawaiian vacation dilemma Obama has faced or the most difficult. Nor, as shall be seen, is it the first vacation dilemma he will have dissembled his way through.

In late December 1999, while on vacation in Hawaii, Illinois State Senator Obama missed a critical vote on a gun control measure. He had missed votes before -- many of them -- but now he was challenging former Black Panther Bobby Rush for his congressional seat.

When he caught heat from Rush and the media, Obama needed an alibi, and so he turned to the Hyde Park Herald. For some years he had been writing a semi-regular column about state capitol trivia for this neighborhood paper. Indeed, from the 1995 publication of his acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father, to its reissue in 2004, Obama had nothing in print beyond this humble column. Such was the petty political yoke to which our literary master had to harness his outsized talent during these fallow years.

To explain why he had gone to Hawaii, Obama cited the death of his mother, the death of his grandfather, and the subsequent loneliness of his ailing grandmother at Christmas time. To explain why he stayed -- "10-footers on the North Shore" having little currency in the hood -- he rolled out a flu-ridden baby.

"I could not leave my wife alone with my daughter," said Obama, "without knowing the seriousness of the baby's condition and without knowing whether they might be able to get a flight out of Hawaii before New Year's Day." On the plus side he spared the reader any tales of his dog, "Checkers" apparently having stayed behind in Chicago.

No one was buying. Without the protection of the media, Obama came across as just another glad-handing, goldbricking Chicago pol. Rush went on to spank this "tool of the white liberals" in the Democratic primary by better than a two-to-one margin.
And back then at least Obama had an actual relative living in Hawaii.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog..._hawaiian_vacation_dilemma.html#ixzz1hGujIOcp

 

[busybody..]

Obama is a fraud....that was foisted on us by the WHITE GUILT media

we all know what he is

BUT MOST WONT ADMIT IT BECAUSE OF HIS SKIN COLOR

 

[TexasWife25]

"Hawaii Reporter research shows the total cost for the President’s visit for taxpayers far exceeded $1.5 million in 2010 – but is even more costly this year because he extended his vacation by three days and the cost for Air Force One travel has jumped since last assessed in 2000. In addition, Hawaii Reporter was able to obtain more specifics about the executive expenditures.
The total cost (based on what is known) for the 17-day vacation roundtrip vacation to Hawaii for the President, his family and staff has climbed to more than $4 million. Here's why.

TRAVEL: $3,629,622

The biggest expense is President Barack Obama’s round trip flight to Hawaii via Air Force One, a cost the GAO office estimated at $1 million in the year 2000. Contacted today, the GAO confirmed there is no report the independent office affiliated with Congress has prepared since 2000 to operate Air Force One and Air Force Two.

However, the U.S. Air Force provides the most current numbers of $181,757 per flight hour. Travel time for Air Force One direct from Washington D.C. to Hawaii is about 9 hours or $1,635,813 each way for a total of $3,271,622 for the round trip to Hawaii and back.

The cost for USAF C-17 cargo aircraft that transports the Presidential limos, helicopters and other support equipment to Hawaii was not made available. However, the flight time between Andrews Air Force Base and Hawaii is at about 21.5 hours roundtrip, with estimated operating cost of $12,000 per hour. (Source: GAO report, updated by C-17 crew member). The United States Marine Corps provides a presidential helicopter, along with pilots and support crews for the test flights, which travel on another C-17 flight. That is $258,000, not including costs for the 4 to 6 member crew's per diem and hotel.

Mrs. Obama’s early flight to Hawaii costs about $63,000 (White House Dossier), but add security and personnel for a total of about $100,000."


While it is accurate the the Air Force charges $180k per flight hour of Air Force One, if you worked you would understand this: this is funny money, it's a charge-back. At my work, my transferring of 1GB of internet data costs .45 cents, considering I am at or above 250 GB at the least this charge-back is $112.50/month. I am 1 of about 250 within my department, we typically see a charge-back of about $70/person/month for internet usage. This does not mean that we pay $17,500 to the company for internet charges, nor does it mean that cost is in fact $17,500 for our department. It means that accounting came up with a number to assign for data usage to spread the cost around the company, it means that at the end of the year when it looks like we spent $10M on network usage costs that they can put there accounting degrees to work and make us more profitable.

You come off as a complete tool when you cite things like this, think for yourself for once. If you believe that the government is actually paying as an expense $185K in costs/hour to fly a plane you are off your rocker. At the most it is a reallocation of funds from one department to another, it isn't actual cost paid out.

 

[busybody..]

so

be a DUMMY

and

vote for him

 

[jeninflorida]

When you have no idea how hard it is to generate/create $4 million dollars, why on earth would you expect anything else? Politicians and attorneys take wealth from others; they do not generate a dime.

Think about it. I’m sure that Michelle didn’t think about it

Let Them Eat Cake: Obamas’ 17-Day Vacation to Cost $4 Million




Eat it.


KAILUA, OAHU — The U.S. Secret Service has arrived, street barricades are in place, and the U.S. Coast Guard has stationed itself in the waters surrounding Kailua, Oahu. That is a sure sign President Barack Obama’s security team is preparing for the first family to arrive in the small beachside community as early as Friday night for what is expected to be a 17-day vacation.

The President and his family are traveling separately to Hawaii because he wants resolve the payroll tax cut issue before leaving Washington — and his wife does not want to wait.

But the advanced trip and the cost that comes with it — as much as $100,000 (flight and security) — adds to an already expensive vacation for the taxpayers.

Hawaii Reporter research shows the total cost for the President’s visit for taxpayers far exceeded $1.5 million in 2010 — but is even more costly this year because he extended his vacation by three days and the cost for Air Force One travel has jumped since last assessed in 2000. In addition, Hawaii Reporter was able to obtain more specifics about the executive expenditures.

The total cost (based on what is known) for the 17-day vacation roundtrip vacation to Hawaii for the President, his family and staff has climbed to more than $4 million. Here’s why.

TRAVEL: $3,651,626
The biggest expense is President Barack Obama’s round trip flight to Hawaii via Air Force One, a cost the GAO office estimated at $1 million in the year 2000. Contacted today, the GAO confirmed there is no report the independent office affiliated with Congress has prepared since 2000 to operate Air Force One and Air Force Two.