We stopped in Johnson City on our way to my son´s house in Nashville. It was one sad deteriorating American City. We´ve seen many of them in our travels. The town of JC has some wonderful old buildings that could be restored to make a vibrant historial old town, but it is obvious that there isn´t much there to make a go of it. The city needs jobs, jobs jobs. Obama dithers while American falls apart. It just makes me so sad.

While Obama takes a 4 million dollar vacation on our dime. I vote my tax dollars go to the families that need it. Not him.

Obama is not important; the people are. Quit believing that he is.

See? The libtards were right all along -- poverty and lack are GOOD!

Not for them, of course, but they´re different and better than the rest of us...

Actual cost of Obama´s 3 week vacation is $35 to $45 million when you add in costs of 24/7 Secret Service, travel/rooms/meals, the AF transports that fly limos and Suburbans in/out, the communication teams, WH staffers, including cooks, valets, technicians. The $4 million figure is as bogus as Obama, but permits ABC/AP/NPR to avoid discussing actual costs.

One wishes Obama would follow his own rule of "we´re not going back", resign and remain in Hawaii, the 57th state. Crazy Joe Biden would be an improvement since we wouldn´t have to pretend that the president wasn´t mad.

The ONLY way we get our country back is to strip Washington of its power - our tax dollars.

Until a very large number of Americans stop paying taxes at the same time through civil disobedience, we are doomed.

If I didn´t know better, I´d swear this was a story from the Great Depression. But we all know that´s silly, don´t we? It´s just a story from the new-new economy, the Perpetual Summer of Recovery part II.

We´re about to enter another Great Depression only this time we´ll have all the misery along with crippling taxes!

Folks get to make their own toys while Obama&Co go to Hawaii. Isn´t America great! Unbelievable.

For me, it has always been a cash-strapped Christmas. So what. It´s normal for me now. I´ve learned to be frugal and practical. I used to make presents. Now that I am un-married and work retail, I watch for the clearance stuff and use my discount.

This Christmas parents will struggle to pay their electric bills and keep a roof over their head, never mind a record number of homeless children, while Zippy and the troupe live high on the hog on our dime.

Could we have a list of the tag alongs this year ? NE have any photos of something we really want to know ?

Frankly, other than here and Drudge there is a blackout on the 4+ million dollar vacation the obama´s are taking with their homies this year. While the "press" waxes eloquently about how we "cash-strapped" families scrape by, and how heartwarming it is that we. the little people, you know, the ones who are PAYING for obama´s "excellent adventures" WE "spark creativity and togetherness", and the "msm" gives the proverbial "pat on the head" to hard-working Americans, while they are packing for their own trips to Hawaii to tag along with their dear Leader..What a Country!