21 Days, and $4 Million. That is the length and cost of President Obama’s vacation, with the taxpayers footing the bill. President Obama has recently announced that he will be taking a 21 day vacation to Hawaii for some quality relaxation time, with his vacation at the beach costing the taxpayers over $4,000,000. This total bill for the trip includes the President (and his family’s) extended security, housing for him, his family, his assistants, and the secret service, Air Force One’s flight, and numerous other expenses.
I don’t doubt that President Obama has a tough job. It’s arguably one of the most stressful jobs in the nation. But hasn’t he taken enough vacation, enough relaxation, and played enough golf already?
He’s played over 100 rounds of Golf and vacationed 17 times. During this recent election, he held hundreds of fundraisers and made multiple appearances on every talk show and Comedy station, ranging from The View to Jay Leno. Now that the campaign is over, shouldn’t he be getting back to work? I don’t dispute the fact that he needs and deserve some vacation time- maybe four or five days. Or even a week. But 21 days?
There are so many pressing issues right now; the Fiscal Cliff is soon to come, and another Government shutdown will be underway. Palestine has just been declared a state by the United Nations, and this will drastically affect both American and Israeli international affairs. North Korea is now back at it with rocket threats, and Iran is threatening Israel again. The Jobs crisis is still here, and we’re $16 Trillion in debt.
President Obama, enjoy your vacation. But maybe you should shorten it, from 21 days to maybe a week? You deserve a break, but this vacation is costing the taxpayers $4 Million, which could benefit the country in many other ways. And remember, Mr. President, you have played a lot of golf in your term. Perhaps a shorter vacation?
November 30th, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Number of vacations days taken over each of the following predident’s first 31 months.
Reagan 112 days
Clinton 28 days
George W. Bush 180, (still the all time leader over his 8 years at 977 days, or 32% of his total time in office, was spent on vacations or retreats}
Barack Obama 61 days
November 30th, 2012 at 8:49 pm
Obama took ZERO vacation days in 2012. As for the costs? I imagine other presidents also used AF-1, took the secret service along, and maybe even took their families along.
1.) “…But hasn’t he taken enough vacation, enough relaxation, and played enough golf already?….”
-According to who? How has Obama spent his time compared to his predecessors? It would be nice if you included some numbers for comparison. Perhaps his predecessors spent MORE time vacationing.
2.) “….every talk show and Comedy station,”
-Exaggerating a bit?
3.) A 100 rounds of golf in what? A year? 4 years? Ever heard of people talking business and making deals while playing golf?
You know, it would be nice when you people on the right criticize Obama for stuff like this, you actually COMPARE his actions to other presidents, and MAYBE give us some CONTEXT, instead of just throwing out numbers recklessly.
Perhaps if you had some FACTS, like Buzzbee just presented, you guys wouldn’t be “Obama-whining” so much.
November 30th, 2012 at 9:09 pm
Ass holes been on vacation or campaigning since day one.
Just cuz ya show up for work doesnt mean you’re there.
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“RonM Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Andy Z – I never called Beck a Republican if you re-read my post.”
RonM Says:
November 28th, 2012 at 10:25 pm
“Great to see a GOP media icon polishing up the party brand by selling a jar of piss online.”
The Republican Party (also called the GOP, for “Grand Old Party”) is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party…
idiot
November 30th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
also called the GOP, for “Grand Old Party”
Huh. I thought it stood for Geriatric Outdated Pissants.
November 30th, 2012 at 9:24 pm
Bush served 8 years, not 4, morons.
And its not about “how many days”.
All of us know any president can operate from anywhere and usually does vacation or not.
Its about productivity, or lack thereof.
We are more fcked up now after 4 years of Barry than we were after 8 years of Bush.
This place is small. Every time he comes here it screws up everything on half the island.
He should fly in at Kaneohe MCB, from there you can walk to his bungalow in about an hour.
“Clinton 28 days”
How many hours in 8 years was he getting his dick sucked under the desk ?
November 30th, 2012 at 9:29 pm
How many hours in 8 years was he getting his dick sucked under the desk ?
Certainly more than you.
November 30th, 2012 at 9:30 pm
Hey Micky – Sean Hannity, like Beck, is a “GOP media icon”.
READ: MEDIA ICON……although neither are registered Republicans.
Still having the facts/comprehension problems?…..LOL
And what are you doing now? Cross-thread trolling?
November 30th, 2012 at 9:36 pm
“This place is small. Every time he comes here it screws up everything on half the island.”
I’ll bet the local merchants and business people don’t mind. Probably brings in 10-20 $million to the local economy. Increases tourism. The local chamber of commerce wishes Obama would visit more often no doubt.
I’ll bet you don’t here them complaining.
November 30th, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Correction: “hear”….them complaining.
November 30th, 2012 at 10:31 pm
What a message to the public. He is driving Americans to the unemployment line while he flies presidential class to Hawaii.
December 1st, 2012 at 5:04 am
For starters I do not believe that the $4 million dollar price tag is a total. The total cost is probably closer to $4 million PER DAY!
Bad enough that maintaining the Obama White House costs us more than $1.4 BILLION dollars per year. The Queen of England and her whole royal family only cost the UK about $50 million per year. The UK easily makes that back and more in tourists who come to see the royals.
December 1st, 2012 at 11:05 am
Andy Z – Can you tell me how much the previous White House expenditures were?
I believe Bush’s White House and travel costs were higher.
December 1st, 2012 at 12:03 pm
“I’ll bet the local merchants and business people don’t mind. Probably brings in 10-20 $million to the local economy. Increases tourism. The local chamber of commerce wishes Obama would visit more often no doubt.
I’ll bet you don’t here them complaining.”
You’re an idiot. I’m writing this because I hear them complaining
Obamas presence brings in 20 mill ?
His joint is in fcking Kailua, and all traffic is sent away except for residents.
Theres not much to spend money on in Kailua, it snot Waikiki where he does go cept for occasional private small dinners.
The state uses bookoo resources and money that are not set off by any fanfare spending.
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” a matter of weeks, Kailua residents will see the familiar street barricades fronted by U.S. Secret Service agents and Navy Seals and the U.S. Coast Guard stationed in canal and ocean waters.
The President, who spent some of his childhood years in Hawaii, brings his wife, two daughters, Sasha and Malia, with dog Bo in tow, each holiday season. They settle into the small town community known for its spectacular sparkling beaches, warm turquoise ocean, rolling surf, country shops and restaurants and friendly people.
The homes where they stay are just a two-minute drive from Kaneohe Bay and the Marine Corps Base Hawaii, where the Obamas and friends can access private white sand beaches and military workout facilities.
While many residents welcome the First Family, others are disheartened by the restrictions put on air, water and road travel while the President and family are in town, especially because it is the holiday season and many families on vacation want to use their boats or surf and paddle in the welcoming ocean waves fronting the Kailua homes. In addition, the President’s caravan of at least 22 vehicles including an ambulance can easily overwhelm the community that typically has single lane streets.
Adding to the controversy surrounding the President’s visit is the cost of the trip.
With the staff, special forces, local police presence and equipment, the President’s visit adds up annually to at least a $4 million vacation courtesy of the Hawaii and federal taxpayers.
While the President and his friends pay for their own rental homes, taxpayers pick up the cost of security and waterfront housing for the Secret Service, Navy Seals and Coast Guard as well as staff accommodations at a plush beachfront Waikiki hotel.
TRAVEL: $3,629,622
The biggest expense is President Barack Obama’s round trip flight to Hawaii via Air Force One.
A Congressional Research Service report released in May 2012 said the plane typically used by the President, a Boeing 747, costs $179,750 per hour to operate. 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.
The cost for USAF C-17 cargo aircraft that transports the Presidential limos, helicopters and other support equipment to Hawaii has never been disclosed in the years the President has traveled to Hawaii. 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.”
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He goes to a shave ice joint of a sandwich shop and eats on camera with some schmuck for a photo op.
LOCAL TAXPAYER COSTS: $260,000
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/residents-alerted-to-obamas-hawaiian-holiday-plans/123#comments
Our main industry is tourism
No one comes here to see Barry.
Kzailua is avoided while hes there because all the detours and blockades
It is actually a hindrance to the industry and royal pain in the ass during Christmas.
Wise and get yer lips of his shlong
December 1st, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Whats the best way to get cookie crumbs out from under keys ?
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:01 am
Yeaah Mitt the shit would have probably paid for his own vacation.
December 3rd, 2012 at 6:46 am
Accept food stamps from Democrats?
or
shut your power off, unplug the keyboard and remember it can still hold a dangerous charge. pop the key up with a micro screw driver, or kitchen knife. Don’t lose the spring underneath.
December 3rd, 2012 at 7:09 am
The Secret Service controls most aspects of presidential travel, including cost. Anyone who claims to know the price of a presidential trip is either lying or ignorant…. or both.
December 3rd, 2012 at 9:30 am
“Hey Micky – Sean Hannity, like Beck, is a “GOP media icon”.”
TA;
“The Secret Service controls most aspects of presidential travel, including cost. Anyone who claims to know the price of a presidential trip is either lying or ignorant…. or both.”
Whoever sets the itinerary is responsible bro.
If Obama wants to go the moon all the SS does is draw the schedules and plans around security protocols.
Hundreds of publications do columns on the cost and represent a pretty fair ballpark figure among most of the them.
Washington cant put an accurate price on anything.
Gimme a break
December 3rd, 2012 at 9:58 am
Ron;
“Hey Micky – Sean Hannity, like Beck, is a “GOP media icon”.
READ: MEDIA ICON……although neither are registered Republicans.
Still having the facts/comprehension problems?…..LOL”
Why ? Because no one follows your backasswards thought process ?
I’m a GOP media icon and I’m not registered at all, and idiots like you call me a republican.
Or, to be more clear, since were dealing with you.
You automatically go on republican bashing rants when anyone at a sight called “Right Pundits” says anything.
And we are not all republicans, but you assume we are.
So, spare us your Weasely sht
You’ve pegged yourself dufuss and were just following your lead.
Capice ?
prolly not
“And what are you doing now? Cross-thread trolling?”
I’ll use other threads to make my point as I would any source.
Or can your linear mind not grasp that concept ?
December 3rd, 2012 at 10:08 am
Thank you Patrick.
The ants took care of it for me.
December 3rd, 2012 at 10:35 am
Gotta love the recent trend of right wingers disassociating them selves from the GOP.
“I support EVERY Republican conservative politician and policy, reject every Democrat (they’re ALL Liberals) politician and policy, but that doesn’t make me a Republican.”
Nice “plausible deniability” for when one loses elections or otherwise has their political ethos exposed as vacant.
Like the whole RINO B/S. “Our failed Republicans aren’t wrong, they’re just not REAL Republicans.”
December 3rd, 2012 at 10:53 am
These peoples logic is based on there only being two cookie kinds of cookie cutters.
What they fail to realize is that its the dough that makes the difference.
These are the idiots that look at me with all my silver and long hair and flash me a peace sign.
I fire up a doobie and flip em off, play some Nugent.