Actually Rex, none of that is true. A real news story was even done about this, story as an example of how the right wing media/echo chamber doesn't have a mechanism to debunk lies.

The true cost of the trip is never released for security reasons, but it is NOWHERE near 200 million per day. The war in Afghanistan doesn't even cost 200 Million per day. The secretary of the US Navy even thought it was comical that even the idea of repositioning 10% of our fleet around India was even suggested.

Obama certainly travels with an entourage, but not one THAT big.

I really wish you would fact check things before posting them. I hope you start to realize the sources you use to obtain info about Obama have an agenda, and that agenda ain't the truth.

Posting your video 3 times? I know...I know...I know... Two of them are in your signature.

1st off... Rachel Maddow is a lesbian cunt. 2nd... I can not gut more than 20 seconds of listening to her talk, let alone looking at her face. For the life of me I can not figure out why she is still on the air.

Now lets talk about the REAL ISSUE here PowerStroker! 200 Million dollars a DAY is a whole lot of fucking money and I trust that this figure is accurate and trying to be re-called by the left leaning media for VERY OBVIOUS REASONS.

40 Airplains, 870 Rooms (Some even at the 5 star Taj Mahal!), 2000-3000 people are going from the Obama camp, on top of the press (Who may or may not being paying for their trip depending on if they kiss and tell).

Is 10% of our war ships being sent to India? It's quite possible. They been planing this thing for months, yet this is the first I am hearing of some trade deal the Democrats have cooked up. Has anyone even got access to this trade agreement? Or is it so chock full of special intrest kick-backs for Obama that we need not view it?

No PowerStroker... It is quite possible this trip could be costing tax payers $200 million per day! Why it could not have just been a tele-confrince with todays modern web cam facilities is a good question. WHY DO WE NEED 2000 PEOPLE OVER IN INDIA? It takes 2000 people for Obama to sign a peice of paper? What about all the security cost, vehicle rentals, motorcades, food, drink and such?

YES IT CAN BE COSTING US 200 MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY TO SEND THE GOLDEN CHILD OVER THERE!!!!!! NOT ONLY THAT HE'S GOING TO BE THERE FOR A WEEK! So that would mean the REAL TALLY would cost us $1,400,000,000.00, for you people that don't know, thats 1 billion four hundred million bucks! The reason why they are not disclosing this information is because it would cause an up-roar! It already has caused an up-roar, and I bet Obama is just saying "Fuck the American Public, they know I am full of shit now so I better start getting mine!"

Let's also not forget Michelle Obama's little visit overseas. Another 5 star hotel that was bought out while she and all of her friends frolicked over there with tax payer security.

Let me ask you this PowerStroker... When your dealership sent you to go train for the new 6.7 PowerStroke engine, did Fords get you a 5 star hotel? Did they allow you to take along 3000 friends? Did they allow you to spend time visiting local fesivals or did they fly you home right aftewards?

Do you feel the President should be doing ANYTHING other than business while visiting other countries on tax payer dime?

You find a video made by someone other than Rachel Maddow and I'll watch it.

Rachel Maddow has ZERO credibility with me! ZERO!

There are some things I am willing to bend on, but not this one. Rachel Maddow is NOT a credible source for information. Hell you might as well be watching iCarley!

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It's not just 15 minutes of Rachel, it has lots of other intervews including a clip from the Pentagon's press conference where the Pentagon spokesman debunks the story.  You believe the Military don't you??? 

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Powerstroker, maybe YOU need to watch the video once more. The clip you speak of that was repeated over 5 times in the 60 seconds I watched NEVER DEBUNKED THE STORY!

What was said by the Penagon spokeman was "We do not disclose the dollar amount of Presidential trips".

THAT WAS IT!! So how in the WORLD can you say he debunked the story when he did not even answer the question? Gawd you people are desprate and SOOOOO exposed!

 

CNN's Anderson Cooper dresses in military uniform now? Interesting. 

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Don't worry PowerStroker! There are Republicans right this very moment keeping close tabs on what it is actuall costing for Obama's vacation to Asia. The amount of $200 million per day must have been a safe estimate given the information and projections.

If anything, so long as this awarness keeps the Obama Administration from getting carried away it was worth it, don't you think?

Let me ask you this PowerStroker, what do YOU think Obamas vacation will cost tax payers per day by the time all is said and done? Just take a wild guess at what you might think the cost would be, and also let us know what you think would be an acceptable dollar amount to be.

If by the time all is said and done they ended up spending $120-175 million a day I think it would be safe to say the person who made the statments wasnt far off, and there was reason to question the amount spent.

For Obama, someone who campaigned on change and getting the economy back in gear people only expect him to walk his talk. No one is saying there isnt going to be cost involved in sending him overseas, but when it looks to be more of a vacation than work, Americans have a right to call him on it.

After all the American people arent hosing an intergalactic kegger for Obama and his overseas pals!

So you are actually suggesting that everyone piled up on airforce one? Were you working for the Polish government at one time recently PowerStroker? Because you know that money saving idea didn't work out too well for them.

It's safe to say that at LEAST 10-20 planes were used. Let us not forget the military war birds that also tag along side. Let us not forget about all of the plane trips interstate that it took getting all of these people in one spot. Then as you mention all of the normal people who would normally be on 12 hour shifts getting overtime and possibly some additional pay for having to be gone for 10 days. Let us not forget the ride home, as some of these people will not be staying the entire 10 days.

With regards to the media, yes many of them are being paid for by the media outlets, but to claim they are all pilled up on Airforce one for an overseas trip like this is just laughable to me anyway.

Now there are also hotel expences, and other such things as security and paying local law enforcement for motorcades, trimming the coconut tree's ect. Not to mention cost for food, as the idea of airforce one sending out brown bag lunches for everyone is also laughable to me.

Also lets keep in mind he isn't just going to India, he is also going to Indonisia and Japan! Why in the hell he is going to Indonesia is beyond me, is there something pressing that merits this trip? Or is he just dying to get back to his homeland?

Also what about Japan? What pressing issue is going on there that needs him over there? It's clear to see there is a lot more expence to this whole thing than just Obama going to India, because from there everything above is X3 considering the intellagence and amount of money that went into planning this whole thing.

I think it's safe to say this little vacation was cooked up under his administration, and is a fine example of what kind of wastefullness has been going on. Many do not buy that his trade deals that brag up close to 52,000 American jobs compares to the millions of jobs we have already lost to India, and as of recent reports it appears as there is some disagreements over the trade deals. Are we to expect that Obama will just sign anything put infront of him just so he can say he got the job done? Even if it's bad for Americans? Kind of brings back memories of the healthcare law and how he has recently admitted that he rushed it thru without thinking.

So please PowerStroker, give this some effort. Let me know what is so important about Obama making a visit to Indonesia and Japan. Also please let me know why he has left to get a trade deal in the works without first making sure everyone was in agreement? Seems like this could just be a total waste of time, money and resources that if you include all the security, rooms, planning and secret service prep work could be costing us 200 million a day if the whole number was devided by the 10 days he will be gone. There is also a good chance bassed on his past craftmanship that he will sign just about any peice of shit trade deal, if only to say "He got it done". We all know what we call them people in our business PowerStroker.... We call them HACKS! 

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He is the President of the United States and leader of the free world,  He is the ONLY person who can launch our Nuclear arsenal, and if he feels the need to go anywhere at any time, it is his perogative to do so.

They could be an alli in any of our dealings with China, either that or maybe Obama wanted some sushi.  He's the President, he can do what he wants.

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Yes PowerStroker, he is the President. And there are many other examples of people abusing their power who have fallen in the past as well. Obama still has to follow the laws, he is not a dictator. If he doesn't he gets fired early.

Hey PowerStroker!

NEWS FLASH!

The Democrats have been in control the past two years! The Republicans are in there now and these rediculous expendatures WILL COME TO AN END! IF IT HAIRLIPS THE PRESIDENT.

REPUBLICANS HAVE THE PURSE NOW BUDDY. How do you stop a Democrat that is drunk with power on the publics money? You cut off the money!

Maybe you don't know much about how the government works, but in the Senate you need X amount of votes to do what you are claiming. In case you forgot the Democrats used to hold VERY LARGE majorities in both the House and the Senate, and thus why we now have a new healthcare law.

Do some reading PowerStroker. Here is a link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster

Um... I think it's safe to say this trip was cooked up well before Brown getting in. Even with Brown taking office, it was no match for the super-majority the Democrats had at the time.

Now things are diffrent. The Republicans OWN the House, and need to turn far fewer Democrats in order to cease this out of control government intervention. In the case of the two Independents, well they will likley be found guilty of corruption once a serious issue has the parties split. The money seats are held by two Independants, and 1 or two weak Democrats.

How much do you want to bet the Democrat Senators wont be so quick to just ignore the wishes of the American people after the schalacking they took November 2nd?

Oh and I thought it was funny when you claimed Obama could do whatever he wanted because he was President. Seems a certian Volcano in Indonesia was able to spew more hot air than Obama, thus sending him packing. So much for thinking he can do whatever he wanted, or perhaps he realized his trip might actually CREST the $200 million mark, into the $200 BILLLION range if you include all the shotty agreements that will cost us money down the road that he plans to sign.

I THINK THE ESTIMATE OF $200 MILLION WAS TOO KIND! I THINK THIS VACATION HE IS ON WILL END UP COSTING AMERICANS TRILLIONS! All for a measely 52,000 jobs building war birds. Meanwhile what India want's in return is to quit punishing businesses for sending jobs over there. Say Ta-Ta to another 200,000 jobs! NO PUN INTENDED!

-- Edited by Administrator on Wednesday 10th of November 2010 05:12:11 AM

Can we get a link to your claims about Mike?

Or is he claiming that after the bad trade deals take hold, the actual vacation cost will be in the TRILLIONS when devided by 10?

Are you effing serious!?

A Yahoo BLOG!? LOL

Please see the requirements for a credible news desk in the "Open Challenge to Politickers thread".

And please try again.

Meet the new boss.... Same as the old boss...

^^^^Why don't you log in Rex?^^^^

I call it "taking a rex"

Still waiting on proof of the trips cost please.

Um... Rachel Maddow said herself in that video that security expenses are NOT disclosed, so it is safe to say your claims about this stuff being public record are somewhat false.

Yes I do feel that if you took all the resources it took to plan and execute this trip it could very well be in the $200 million dollar per day area if divided by the amount of days he was gone.

This is the big problem with Big Government. People like me and you should not have to spend time trying to figure out if our government is lying to us. If we had less corruption there would be more trust. More trust would equal more progress and a better quality of life. Don't you agree?

Yes I did watch over half of the video you posted. More than half of the half I did watch was a lot of repetition. I am all for learning something new, and I understand her approach to informing people is to take a comedic angle, but some people don't feel this is funny, and that there are serious issues here that merit more professionalism. I think your girl Maddow could be a good reporter if she was more serious, but that would likely cost her the liberal audience she currently enjoys.

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Not at all...  Obama is given a travel budget with a specific dollar amount which is public record.  This dollar amount is much less than 2 Billion dollars, therefore, if he made a single trip that cost 2 Billion dollars, the money had to come from Congress.  There is no way a bill can be passed through both houses of the congress and become law without it being public record - what's the point of making law that you keep secret?  While it may be true that you will never see the specific reciepts for hotels, meals, fuel ect, it is true that Obama doesn't have the power of the purse, and if he wants to spend money beyond the travel budget appropriated to him, he needs to get that money from congress - and that WOULD be public record if it happened.  But our inability to find any such record is proof that you are wrong on this issue.

Yawn... Does that budget include the salary of people who set up the trip? How about security, and all of the other things? Our inability to find such recorded proof is a good indication the $200M claim has merit. Is it my problem to find out? NOPE. But you know what? I and many others will be thinking about that come 2012, so you see it's really more to the Democrats advantage to just come clean with some proof.

You want to divide $200 million PER DAY by the NUMBER of Days he was gone???  That argument doesn't make any sense.  If you took 200 Million divided by 10 days that would be 20 million per day, but the key word is 200 Million PER DAY - there is no fancy division required to make idiotic statements Rex.

No! I suggested deviding the ENTIRE cost of the trip (whatever that might be) by the number of days he was gone. I am pretty sure the dollar amount would be close to $200M per day. Sorry if I confused you. So PowerStroker, have your Democrat buddies given you any ideas as to the total cost of the trip?

I just wish you would actually make an effort to see if the government is lying to you, and admit you're wrong when you cant any proof of it.

The proof is in the pudding. Unfortunately the cupboard seems to be locked along with the fridge. How the fuck am I going to tell if the government is fucking me? I don't have security clearance. Although I really did LOVE the headlines of "Obama brings home the bacon from India" given the rather large populations of Muslims there. LOL

You should watch the second half now please, I won't make you sit through the first half again, but it would mean a lot if you did watch the second half.  There's less repetition in it, and a lot more debunking.

Sorry PowerStroker, but the full extent of the damage Obama has done while on vacation in Asia has yet to be made clear. It is quite possible whatever trade deals he signed will cost us MUCH MORE than $200M per day. Really it could end up costing us $1 trillion per day by the time is all said and done. That would be $10T for the trip. You want to keep going with this? 

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 The salaries of full time security and staff is going to be an ongoing expense whether they are in India or whether they stay home.  Accounting doesn't work that way Rex.  Obviously running the government is expensive, but to pretend those expenses dont begin to exist until he boards a plane to India is ridiculous.  A more appropriate question would be how much did the expense of running the Obama administration increase per day during his India trip.  Your tricky math is purely partisan, and you know it.

PowerStroker you are so full of shit I bet your eyes are brown! For you to make such an IGNORANT suggestion that the cost of security detail to protect the President at the White House is the same as loading up a plane full of security personel and sending them overseasis not only ludacris, it just makes you look like a retard. Wake the hell up PowerStroker, not all Americans are as ignorant as you, Obama and the Democrats hope they would be. This is just one of many hits your credibility has taken in here.

No they haven't, I don't expect them to, and I don't care.

YOU DONT CARE? LOL How about checking out this link here and letting me know how much you don't care.

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Care to revise your bullshit statement PowerStroker?

Brilliant answer Rex, and so typical

What you don't like Chocolate pudding? Or are you feeling somewhat sick after realizing your party affiliation is part of the PROBLEM and not part of the solution?

Better to just assume you're getting fucked then, and spend your life being angry and cynical eh?

I am an grumpy elitist... It works for me.

 

Oh no, not MUSLIMS.

I guess the irony of that one went RIGHT over your head huh PowerStroker!? Obama brings home the bacon from India was an actual HEADLINE from MSN.COM PowerStroker, not something I just made up.

Actually, I want to rub your nose in all of your idiotic statements.

$10 Trillion dollars is a whole lot of money to spend on a vacation, even by a King's or Dictators standard. Losing the purse must have really been a smack in the face for the Obama Administration. Guess they figured they might as well get one last big spend in before the American people took away the credit card.

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You must skim thru my postings because if you actually read them it would have explained how I got that figure.

$10,000,000,000,000.00 is "Big Pimp'n" by anyone's standard.

Trump familys elaborate lifestyle is a logistical nightmare at taxpayer expense

 

On Friday, President Trump and his entourage will jet for the third straight weekend to a working getaway at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.

On Saturday, Trumps sons Eric and Don Jr., with their Secret Service details in tow, will be nearly 8,000 miles away in the United Arab Emirates, attending the grand opening of a Trump-brand golf resort in the Beverly Hills of Dubai.

Meanwhile, New York police will keep watch outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, the chosen home of first lady Melania Trump and son Barron. And the tiny township of Bedminster, N.J., is preparing for the daunting prospect that the local Trump golf course will serve as a sort of northern White House for as many as 10 weekends a year.

Barely a month into the Trump presidency, the unusually elaborate lifestyle of Americas new first family is straining the Secret Service and security officials, stirring financial and logistical concerns in several local communities, and costing far beyond what has been typical for past presidents a price tag that, based on past assessments of presidential travel and security costs, could balloon into the hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a four-year term.

Adding to the costs and complications is Trumps inclination to conduct official business surrounded by crowds of people, such as his decision last weekend to host Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for a working dinner while Mar-a-Lago members dined nearby.

The handful of government agencies that bear the brunt of the expenses, including the Defense and Homeland Security departments, have not responded to Washington Post requests for data laying out the costs since Trump took office.

But some figures have dribbled out, while others can be gleaned from government documents.

Trumps three Mar-a-Lago trips since the inauguration have probably cost the federal treasury about $10 million, based on figures used in an October government report analyzing White House travel, including money for Coast Guard units to patrol the exposed shoreline and other military, security and staffing expenses associated with moving the apparatus of the presidency.

Palm Beach County officials plan to ask Washington to reimburse tens of thousands of dollars a day in expenses for deputies handling added security and traffic issues around the cramped Florida island whenever Trump is in town.

In New York, the city is paying $500,000 a day to guard Trump Tower, according to police officials estimates, an amount that could reach $183 million a year.

This month, The Post reported that Secret Service and U.S. Embassy staffers paid nearly $100,000 in hotel-room bills to support Eric Trumps trip to promote a Trump-brand condo tower in Uruguay.

This is an expensive way to conduct business, and the president should recognize that, said Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, which closely tracked President Barack Obamas family vacation costs and said that it intends to continue the effort for the Trump administration.

The unique thing about President Trump is that he knows what it costs to run a plane, Fitton added, noting that Trump should consider using the presidential retreat of Camp David, a short helicopter ride from the White House, or even his golf course in Northern Virginia. Of Mar-a-Lago, Fitton said, Going down there aint free.

For Trump, the costs come with an additional perk: Some of the money flows into his own pocket. While Trump has removed himself from managing his company, he has refused to divest his ownership, meaning that he benefits from corporate successes such as government contracts.

 

[Documents confirm Trump still benefiting from his business]

 

The Defense Department and Secret Service, for instance, have sought to rent space in Trump Tower, where leasing a floor can cost $1.5 million a year though neither agency has disclosed any details. In addition, Trumps travel to his signature properties while trailed by a press corps beaming images to the world allows the official business of the presidency to double as marketing opportunities for his brand.

The White House did not address broader concerns of the costs and potential conflicts inherent in Trumps early travels. But White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told The Post this week that Trump is always working, even when he has left Washington behind.

He is not vacationing when he goes to Mar-a-Lago, Grisham said. The president works nonstop every day of the week, no matter where he is.

Trumps frequent travel belies his repeated criticism of Obama as a habitual vacationer enjoying taxpayer-funded golf getaways. It also comes after his own promises: He told the Hill newspaper in 2015, I would rarely leave the White House because theres so much work to be done.

Presidential families have for decades been guaranteed round-the-clock protection, no matter the expense or destination. Every presidency has brought new operational challenges and lifestyle habits, from George W. Bushs frequent stays at his remote ranch in Texas to Obamas annual trips to Marthas Vineyard and his native state of Hawaii. Judicial Watch estimated that Obama-related travel expenses totaled nearly $97 million over eight years.

But based on the first four weeks, Trumps presidency appears on track to cost hundreds of millions of dollars more.

 

The burden is especially acute for the Secret Service, the presidential protection force that has endured years of budget short­ages, low morale and leadership shake-ups, including the announcement this week that its director, Joseph Clancy, is stepping down.

Agents are now tasked with guarding multiple homes and protecting Trumps four adult children, including the globe-trotting sons running the family business and daughter Ivanka, whose family recently moved into a Northwest Washington neighborhood.

There was an anticipation of how stressful it was going to be on the agency, but the harsh reality is that the stress is just overwhelming, said Jonathan Wackrow, a 14-year Secret Service employee who served in Obamas detail and now works as executive director of the risk-mitigation company RANE.

Even veteran agents, Wackrow said, are feeling the pressure of the monumental task, including manning high-security perimeters in Washington, Florida and New York, along with protecting family members private-business travel across three continents.

Its a logistical nightmare, Wackrow said. Agents are at severe risk of burnout, and the very last thing you want is to have your agents burned out.

A Secret Service spokesman said the agency is equipped to handle the demands of a Trump presidency. Every administration presents unique challenges to which the Secret Service has effectively adapted, according to an agency statement. Regardless of location ... the Secret Service is confident in our security plan.

Experts and local officials have pointed to security and logistical concerns surrounding Mar-a-Lago, the lavish estate that Trump turned into a club in 1995 and now calls the Winter White Hous

 

Club members pay $200,000 to join a fee that has doubled since his election and $14,000 a year to belong, giving them access to the beach, tennis courts, a spa and, now, on occasional weekends, to the president.

But Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), who represents Palm Beach, said Mar-a-Lago is a poor choice for a presidents long-term home: an exposed oceanfront club on a narrow, busy island, where traffic problems were already routine.

Mar-a-Lago is no Camp David, Frankel said. Its not set up with the intention or the forethought of keeping the president safe.

The challenges for Mar-a-Lago as a presidential home were apparent from pictures posted on social media last weekend by club guests including close-up images of the presidential limousine and a picture of a military official carrying the nuclear football.

In one Instagram video recorded Friday night outside Mar-a-Lago, a woman fawns as men with earpieces inspect under the hood of a line of cars heading into the club: The Secret Service is so hot.

The weekend brought the presidential entourage to two other Trump properties, as Trump and Abe golfed 27 holes at the presidents courses in Jupiter and West Palm Beach. The events meant global publicity for the Trump brand and even more security complicationThe federal and local governments have spent considerable sums to help safeguard the sprawling estate on items big and small.

In advance of Trumps Super Bowl weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago, the Secret Service paid for a bevy of security costs, including more than $12,000 for tents, portable toilets, light towers and golf carts, purchase orders show.

The bills have racked up outside the club, too. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said Trumps 25 days in the county since the election have cost local taxpayers about $60,000 a day in overtime police payments.

Local officials said the U.S. Coast Guard has run round-the-clock shoreline patrols alongside Mar-a-Lago when the president is in town. A Coast Guard spokesman declined to share costs or specifics, citing security concerns.

The Town of Palm Beach recently implemented a presidential visit seasonal traffic mitigation plan in hopes of stemming the islands worsening traffic woes. Running every weekend until May, the plan includes a town order demanding sanitation and public-works crews leave the island every Friday by 3 p.m.

Local officials usually learn only a few days in advance that the president is coming, said Kirk ­Blouin, the towns director of public safety. We plan as if he is going to be here most weekends, Blouin said, because otherwise its too hard to plan.

Overseas travel by Trumps adult sons is adding to the burden on taxpayers.

Eric Trump and his security detail flew this month to the Dominican Republic, during which the presidents son met with developers proposing a Trump-brand luxury resort. Purchase orders showing government expenditures for that trip are not yet available, but records show that Secret Service officials traveled there in advance to scope out the area staying at the five-star, oceanfront AlSol Del Mar hotel at a cost of $5,470.

After this weekends trip to Dubai during which early Secret Service hotel bills have already surpassed $16,000, records show the Trump brothers will travel to Vancouver, B.C., for the Feb. 28 grand opening of another Trump-brand skyscraper.

 

[Eric Trumps business trip to Uruguay cost taxpayers $97,830 in hotel bills]

 

The State Department has declined to provide details related to its expenditures for Trump family travel around the world, including the participation of embassy staffers when Eric Trump and Don Trump Jr. travel on behalf of the family business.

The best public estimate for the full cost of Trumps presidential getaways may come from a U.S. Government Accountability Office report in October, which estimated that a four-day trip for President Obama cost taxpayers more than $3.6 million.

During that Presidents Day weekend trip in 2013, Obama flew to Chicago to give an economic speech, then to Palm City, Fla., to golf with Tiger Woods and the owner of the Houston Astros baseball team.

That money went toward operating aircraft flown in from 10 states including Air Force One, which costs an estimated $200,000 an hour to fly as well as assorted watercraft, military working dogs, rental cars, hotel rooms and a Coast Guard rescue helicopter.

The trip drew the ire of many Republicans in Congress, including Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who requested that the GAO review Obamas costs. Asked whether Barrasso would file a similar request for Trumps trips, his spokeswoman said equating the two presidents trips would be misleading". President Trump was in Florida with the Prime Minister of Japan, Barrassos press secretary, Laura M. Mengelkamp, said in a statement. Regardless, every level of the federal government needs to be mindful of the way it spends taxpayer dollars.

In November, when Trump spent a weekend at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., the 8,000-resident township received just 48 hours notice demanding an all-hours security detail of six police officers from its 16-officer force.

Township officials have begun preparing for the possibility that Trump will make up to 10 visits this year, including a potentially extended summer stay for the first lady. Officials there offered a projection, based on seven Trump trips, that could cost the township more than $300,000.

Bedminster is a small municipality with a small police force and a small budget, Mayor Steven E. Parker (R) wrote in a letter asking for federal help in recouping security costs. We want to welcome President Trump with open arms, but we dont wish to burden our taxpayers disproportionately for these visits.

 

David A. Fahrenthold and Carol D. Leonnig contributed to this report.

PowerStroker wrote:

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Trump familys elaborate lifestyle is a logistical nightmare at taxpayer expense

By Drew Harwell, Amy Brittain and Jonathan O'Connell February 16 

David A. Fahrenthold and Carol D. Leonnig contributed to this report.

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 That's because Trump just got elected President and is setting up his base... Unlike Obama who moved into the White House like a section 8 case, Trump actually has property and established clubs that only increase the prestige of the office. 

You see... The White House "made" Obama... Whereas Trump "makes" the White House. There is a big difference here PowerStroker! Trump hit the ground running, and as such it cost a little more to protect him and set up his Northern and Southern White House. As time goes by, you will see that these efforts - once in place, operate at a much lower cost over time and the best part is we're actually seeing RESULTS! Unlike when Obama first took off for an overseas trip to Copenhagen to try and secure the Olympics for Chicago, only to come home empty handed. No surprise there.

I wonder PowerStroker, at this point in Obama's tenure, how many trips had Obama already taken overseas or outside the country? I am going to have to check that out, as I am pretty sure, as of now, Trump has not left the country once! That's not to say he won't, but it's clear Trump's travels INSIDE THE USA are much more beneficial to Americans!

You didn't get the memo? The Playboy mansion has been sold and as part of the agreement Heff just gets to stay there until he dies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-playboy-mansion-idUSKCN10R2FT

Stoma will be leaving early today folks... Not to return under his "Stoma" handle again.

He was begging for it, so we gave it to him.

Enjoy!