On 11/30/2011 10:46 AM, Robert Green wrote:
"The Daring wrote

schmatta skipped

It's quite funny how the P.L.L.C.F. crowd vilifies the banks and
corporations while ignoring the excesses of the elite they worship
so much as they spend taxpayer money like drunken sailors on all
the jumbo jet flights all over the country and the world. Of course
The Messiah needs his golf game to clear his mind while he struggles
with the weight of the world on his shoulders. ^_^

It's even funnier how so many people find fault with those they dislike but
overlook the same faults in people they like:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n4735360.shtml

The Bush Legacy:

National Debt Increase: $4.9 trillion.

National Debt as of Jan. 15, 2009: $10.6 trillion
Debt when Mr. Bush took office: $5.7 trillion
(Source: U.S. Treasury Dept.)

Number Of All Sporting Events Attended: 98

Number of Cabinet Meetings: 49

Number Of Visits To Camp David: 149, totaling all or part of 487 days.

Number Of Visits To His Texas Ranch: 77, totaling all or part of 490 days.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/0...4226,072-a-Pop


Estimates the cost of those flights:

. . . dimbulbs are still nattering about the cost of this [Obama's] day
trip. Never mind that President Obama has been working for five months
without a vacation, unlike the most vacationing president ever, Junior W.
Bush. Try to google the cost of those 77 trips to Crawford TX on Air Force
One and the information is nowhere to be found. Because it was never
reported. I had to calculate the costs myself.
At a bare minimum, for the flights alone, Bush's 77 vacation trips to
Crawford cost us $226,072 per trip.

That's $17,407,544 so he could ride his bicycle in the woods and clear brush
for the cameras.

The minimum cost per trip to Crawford TX is $226,072. That's just the
estimated cost of flying Air Force One round trip - about two hours of
flight time each way at $56,518 per hour.

http://oversight.house.gov/documents...3550-47530.pdf

THE COST OF PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE
PRESIDENTIAL POLITICAL TRAVEL
PREPARED FOR
REP. HENRY A.WAXMAN
This report assumes that flight operating costs are $56,518 per hour for Air
Force One and $14,552 per hour for Air Force Two. These figures are based on
the per hour cost figures cited by GAO for fiscal year 2000, adjusted for
inflation.

According to the Congressional Research Service, the President's domestic
travel also involves the use of accompanying cargo planes. This report
assumes one cargo plane accompanies the President on each trip at an
operating cost per hour of $6,960. This figure is based on the per-hour cost
cited by GAO for fiscal year 2000 for the C-17 cargo plane, adjusted for
inflation.

Factcheck says:

http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/pre...vacation-days/

President George W. Bush spent even more time away from the presidential
mansion in the nation's capital than Reagan. Of the 77 total "vacation"
trips the former president made to his Texas ranch while in office, nine of
them - all or part of 69 days - came during his first year as president in
2001, according to Knoller.

Nice work if you can get it. I'd like to get a job that comes with 10 weeks
of vacation in the 1st year.

So Dufe, before you start throwing rocks, better look around carefully to
make sure you're not smack in the middle of a big glass house. Bush could
have saved a lot of taxpayer money by spending less time away from the
Whitehouse. That $17 MILLION bill, BTW, is grossly underestimated because
of all the security that had to be maintained at both the Whitehouse AND
Crawford. It's just the bare minimum figure.

I'm sure, by the way you're constantly critical of Obama, that you think you
could do the job without any need for any kind of R&R like golf. I'm also
sure that you believe that you'd have the economy mended and the free world
all patched up by now. To that I say: "Those who can, do, those who cannot,
teach and those that can do neither post to Usenet."

--
Bobby G.


Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, how many times do I have to explain to you that I'm
not a Republican? Republicans disgust me but Democrats are special,
they horrify me. ^_^

TDD