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Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on
Obama family last year,
perks questioned in new book

Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas

Original Article

Posted By:Photoonist, 9/27/2012 12:21:32 AM

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.

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OUTRAGEOUS. And it could be an undercount. We already knew that the staff was being paid too much and Michelle's staff is far too large for any First Lady. Plus all those vacations and the extreme security, even when the daughters went places like Mexico. If we let him back in be assured it will get even worse.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: lylacat, 9/27/2012 12:28:30 AM     (No. 8892539)

Michelle has loved all her expensive, lavish and luxurious vacations all at the taxpayers' expense. She even invited all her family and friends. She really wants her husband elected, as she does not want to lose her perks that she feels she is entitled to enjoy.


Reply 2 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 9/27/2012 12:34:05 AM     (No. 8892542)

That`s 1400 million dollars!!! How many jobs could that have created in the private sector by private industry?

Sadly, we`ll never know....


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: country boy, 9/27/2012 12:35:29 AM     (No. 8892544)

The whole thing is outrageous ... full time move projectionist in the WH (hey dufus, ever hear of Netflix ???), and 100K for somebody to walk the dog.

Really starting to think that anybody voting for this dirtbag is a dirtbag themselves.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Aria, 9/27/2012 12:36:47 AM     (No. 8892546)

"Let them eat vegetables"!!! (while I eat lobster, caviar and drink champagne)

M. Antoinette O.

No wonder they're campaigning their butts off for a job neither of them really wants to do.


Reply 5 - Posted by: homjett, 9/27/2012 12:45:53 AM     (No. 8892553)

As I understand what has been reported, Gov Romney will not take a Salary, same as he did in MA. Or was that a dollar per year. Also, Gov Romney ought to use this in a Campaign Ad. His Vacations will be at no cost to the Taxpayer, let alone requiring all the extra Personnel that Pres Obama has with him when he travels. Gov Romney is a frugal man. The Ad would drive the MSM up a tree, so to speak.


Reply 6 - Posted by: tygerlily, 9/27/2012 12:54:27 AM     (No. 8892560)

1.4 billion a year? I am thinking if Senate, Congress state legislators even the President were UNPAID positions if we'd get a more honest bunch that actually represent the PEOPLE! They have not always been full time JOBS.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Flybynight, 9/27/2012 12:57:08 AM     (No. 8892564)

Too much left unsaid here. How does this compare with previous presidents?


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: KTWO, 9/27/2012 1:09:58 AM     (No. 8892573)

Agree with #7. Details count and comparisons are the best method for certain analyses.

It is obvious the Obama's have been lavish but how much was personal? And the categories?

Probably won't know for years. I consider federal accounting a farce. As Gore said, there is no controlling legal authority when Congress is thwarted or indifferent.




Reply 9 - Posted by: country boy, 9/27/2012 1:54:36 AM     (No. 8892599)

#8, we need details? We've seen the details. obama lives like King Louis XIV.

I don't even remember that Bush 43, 41 or Ronald Reagan ever even took a vacation, except to go to their respective homes for a week or two. Bush 43 and Reagan would chop wood. Bush 41 owns a sailboat. That's it.

None of this jetting around the world, 5 star hotels. What happened to the story couple of years ago when the Big Mooche took a couple hundred of her friends to a huge hotel in India. Reports were it cost $100Million/day.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Charactercounts, 9/27/2012 2:18:58 AM     (No. 8892616)

Well, Obama did say he believes in redistribution. He's redistributing our money to himself.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Margie, 9/27/2012 2:37:27 AM     (No. 8892625)

We did not get our money's worth, so I want it back.


Reply 12 - Posted by: sinic, 9/27/2012 5:42:34 AM     (No. 8892688)

I'd venture a guess that Barry would prefer to cut and run at this point. I don't think he ever had any interest in work of any kind...especially the work that's demanded of a president. He'd be content to take the perks of a former president and Choom on as an "entertainer". The wife? Now THAT'S what's driving Mr. Daisy.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Mr. Hanky, 9/27/2012 5:53:50 AM     (No. 8892695)

And Queen Moochelle was never proud of her country.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Trigger2, 9/27/2012 6:40:46 AM     (No. 8892760)

Apparently, the biggest grifters are in the WH. Who knew.


Reply 15 - Posted by: WhamDBambam, 9/27/2012 7:24:24 AM     (No. 8892839)

Great Kings and Queens of Africa...err...America.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Attercliffe, 9/27/2012 8:02:26 AM     (No. 8892908)

In 2010, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth cost British taxpayers $57.8 million. The population is around 62 million. Multiply by 5.5 to get a rough equivalent of what the cost would be if the UK had the same population as the US and the number is under $318,000,000, nowhere near $1,400,000,000.

According to reported statistics, the Queen costs each Briton 94 cents. If you divide $1,400,000,000 by 314,000,000 Americans, you see that Americans pay around $4.46 each to support the Obamas.

I freely admit to being a math dyslexic so if anyone can come up with more accurate numbers, go for it. (I'm not even going to go into the 47% thing, just double the amount to get a rough number.)

Naturally, I don't think the Obamas are worth even $4.46 of my money. Wait, no wait--make that not worth ANY of my money.


Reply 17 - Posted by: LoneStarLarry, 9/27/2012 9:37:40 AM     (No. 8893167)

And guess what, kiddies??
We get to keep on supporting this kind of life style till he dies...and he is a young man.
The thought sure doesn't give me the "warm fuzzes".

I'm afraid, we got him to raise for many more moons even after he moves back to Hawaii.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: nonsense, 9/27/2012 9:59:04 AM     (No. 8893227)

Can't wait to send them packing to their 35 million dollar house in Hawaii.


Reply 19 - Posted by: mickturn, 9/27/2012 10:18:01 AM     (No. 8893305)

Oh, it gets very expensive to have the Barry Best!

Cough, GAG, Wretch!!!!!!!!!!


Reply 20 - Posted by: JoniTx, 9/27/2012 10:49:57 AM     (No. 8893409)

~~Specifically, Gray said taxpayer dollars are subsidizing Obama’s re-election effort when he uses Air Force One to jet across the country campaigning.~~

HOW do we get an accounting? HOW do we get our money back?


Reply 21 - Posted by: 80coyotekate, 9/27/2012 11:10:28 AM     (No. 8893481)

Trucker Observation: I'll bet that Ann & Mitt don't spent
that much in 10 years.

What's worse is that Moochelle & Barack spend
taxpayer money on federal projects with the same
abandonment of common frugality.


Reply 22 - Posted by: mitzi, 9/27/2012 11:26:32 AM     (No. 8893557)

Just redistributing all the "wealth" to the Obamas ...


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: lil dotty, 9/27/2012 11:45:56 AM     (No. 8893625)

Money well spent? s/o
Refund please....demand a refund

What a waste



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