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Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year, perks questioned in new book
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.
In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family.
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.
Bob M.
September 28th, 2012
Reminds me of an old Eurythmics tune – “The King & Queen, of… Kenya…”
Livin on Winchell-Mahoney Time
September 28th, 2012
We could build a pretty nice prison for the 0bamas and Holder for that kind of money, and a lot of dog meat & rice to keep them happy.
dba_vagabond_trader
September 28th, 2012
More reparations.
Noodengr
September 28th, 2012
I am sure we will see a big expose on MSNBC about the excesses of the obumas just a week before the election. Aired in primetime with plenty of publicity on all networks so that folks can tune in.
Oh wait, i am back from vacation in lala land
and got to face reality. The story will be about how much of her own money Mrs Romney chose to spend on the dress she wore to the debate.
MAJ Mike
September 28th, 2012
Heh! Typical. Just grabbing anything that’s not nailed down while they can. Leadership we can be proud of?
Corona
September 28th, 2012
“The little faggot got his own jet airplane.
The little faggot is a billionaire.”
Maudie N Mandeville
September 28th, 2012
BET Television News reporting on this story to its viewers:
“A new book out today shows that taxpayers in England are spending a whopping 57.8M on their royal family.
By comparison, taxpayers in the U.S. are spending only 1.4B on staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family. Some are asking, ‘Is racism involved here’?
Dr. Tar
September 28th, 2012
Wait, the royals (who have strip billards parties in Vegas and run around an estate in France topless) managed to spend $57.8 mil – and that’s with Kate and Willy’s honeymoon kicked in extra this year.
Meanwhile, Moose and Sperter spent 24 times as much for their vacations.
We need a new travel agency in the WH. Say, didn’t the Clintons fire them all and replace them with cronies during their term in office?
Stirrin the B.S.
September 28th, 2012
Those two are are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton on steroids. You owe us, suckahs!!!
MNHawk
September 28th, 2012
Imelda Marcos is even in awe.
Noelegy
September 28th, 2012
Yeah, nothing says “man of the people” like paying a dog handler $102K a year.
Then again, maybe the dog handler earns his/her salary by keeping Bo safe from Barry.
eternal cracker p
September 28th, 2012
The bill would be half as much, but it takes two trips to haul Moose’s ass.
norman einstein
September 28th, 2012
This is not related to the champagne and caviar expenses, but I found it interesting.
White Hut staff salaries:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/2012-Annual-Report-White-House-Staff.csv
I should warn you…by the time I got to the ‘K’s, I had a nearly uncontrollable urge to beat myself on the head with a meat tenderizer.
This guy must be laughing all the way to the bank:
“Taggart, Jr., Hugh T.”, Employee, 94837 Per Annum, ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR OF SEARCH AND FILE”
95K to “search and file”???
Hybrid Lemon
September 28th, 2012
As if we needed anything more to despise them.
Hybrid Lemon
September 28th, 2012
@ Noelegy
A “White House Dog Handler” is known as a Chef.
Stirrin the B.S.
September 28th, 2012
@Norman – I don’t even want to look. But it sure would be nice to see 60 Minutes do a segment on it…..as soon as pigs fly, of course.
Anonymous
September 28th, 2012
Just spreading the wealth is all.
jwm
September 28th, 2012
Well, OK-
Just as long as Satchel and Malaria had fun in Mexico.
JWM
jus sayin yo
September 28th, 2012
that’s JUST how WHITE folks’ll DO ya – barry soetoro
Carlos The Jackal
September 28th, 2012
In case y’all hadn’t noticed, we’re not getting our money’s worth.
Maybe a complaint to the BBB…
locknload
September 28th, 2012
That’s a lot of ice cream and golf
Lowell
September 28th, 2012
Nobody else gonna’ mention you can see Mitches’ dick in that picture?
berlet98
September 28th, 2012
Interpreting Four Winkers
A knowing wink can denote many things and connote far more.
Drudge.com recently featured an un-related collection of four notable winkers– President Barack Hussein Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack’s wife First Lady Michelle Obama, and Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin, all of whom share the common trait of being proven dissemblers.
Now, interpreting the meaning–if any–behind a wink or a nod is an iffy proposition but making educated guesses on what the winker was contemplating based on his or her past history, future aspirations, and known personality is very possible and not mere idle speculation.
It’s not known to or at whom the president was winking in his Drudge picture but, considering his ambitions and constant campaigning and fund raising, he is clearly reflecting approbation or agreement probably with someone on the Obama re-election team since winning four more years has been Obama’s fixation for the past 3 3/4 years.
Still, it’s a grimacing wink, possibly indicative of his awareness that he has screwed up royally and that his background primarily as a radical community organizer hardly qualified him for the presidency in the first place. It certainly couldn’t reflect Obama’s discomfort with his plans to sell out our country to the Russians when he has more “flexibility” because that realization would make him grin, not grimace. (See below)
Hillary Clinton is famous for a number of questionable accomplishments but friendly winks aren’t among them. In fact, her Drudge-photo is more suggestive of a grandmother in urgent need of Gas-X than it suggests any degree of friendliness.
Hillary’s gastrointestinal issues may be attributable to a grudging acceptance that daughter Chelsea will never bless her with a grandchild or, more likely, to a gnawing regret that she now works for a man both she and her hubby consider incompetent and that, in 2016, she will be almost as old as John McCain was in 2008.
Maybe poor Hillary would have been better off had she “stayed home and baked cookies and had teas,” as she said 20 years ago. It’s conceivable that she might have been able to protect Bill from the sexual ravages of that orally-obsessed tart Monica Lewinsky. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=28208.)