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The Taxpayer Cost To Maintain Obama's Golf Handicap: Over $3 Million

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As the nation shivered through February and March and saw it's gross domestic product collapse as humans hibernated, President Obama sought sunnier climes to ensure US supremacy on the world-leader's golf handicap rankings. As The Washington Times reports, however, Obama’s trips this year to the golfing playgrounds of Palm Springs and Key Largo cost taxpayers nearly $3 million for flight expenses alone on Air Force One.

 

 

 

And much, much, much more

 

As The Washington Times reports,

The activist group Judicial Watch said the trips in February and March cost $2,952,278 for flight expenses of Air Force One.

 

Mr. Obama combined his trip to Palm Springs with an event to highlight California’s severe drought. Critics noted he spent the rest of the weekend golfing on exclusive courses in the desert that use about 1 million gallons of water per day to keep them green.

 

During March 7-9, the First Family spent Spring Break at the exclusive Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, Fla., where members must have a minimum net worth of $35 million to join. Other expenses of that trip have not been made public.

 

It is clear that the Obamas continually abuse the perks of the president’s office at taxpayer expense,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And it is particularly interesting that Obama has chosen to take not one but two luxury vacations back-to-back while inveighing against ‘income equality.’ President Obama’s waste of the hard-earned tax dollars of working Americans on unnecessary luxury travel is an abuse of office.”

 

According to records obtained by Judicial Watch, through Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuits, the Obamas and Vice President Joseph R. Biden and wife Jill have spent more than $40 million taxpayer dollars on trips since 2009.

Well, it's not like there was anything else going in the world...?!

But there's always time to relax...

 

Action man: Vladimir Putin is often pictured partaking in various sporting activities - often topless - such as horse riding in southern Siberia's Tuva region
Topless: Russia's president Vladimir Putin went topless during a fishing trip to a national nature reserve in Tuva, Russia
Topless: Russia's president Vladimir Putin went topless during a fishing trip to a national nature reserve in Tuva, Russia
He landed a 21kg pike on a trip to Siberia.

Russia's president Putin with binoculars on the vacation

Reindeer me! Putin was also introduced to some local reindeer when he reached dry land

Russian President Vladimir Putin
Russia's President Vladimir Putin holding a pistol during his visit to a newly-built headquarters of the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Department (GRU) in Moscow.

Need for speed: Vladimir Putin driving a Renault Formula One car on a special racing track in the Leningrad region outside St. Petersburg

 

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Sun, 05/11/2014 - 11:22 | 4748059 loonyleft
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no upvotes for you here. Don't you know you can't mention Bush and Obama as if they are similar? Clearly you need to understand that this time is different, and it's Obama, and it's bad and everyone is covering for him. 

You just wait. This will end when the next president Mr. republitardo gets in power. 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:20 | 4748279 RevRex
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but but but but Busch.......both parties are the same......that's why the media treats them like polar opposites.....one always bad, one always good.....

 

 

Libertarian voters are dumber than Obama voters who HAD a job.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:23 | 4748285 RevRex
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And it cost 6 million to fly Reggie Love, Kal Penn and Bobby Titcomb to and from DC and Obama's vacation spots, so Obama could get homosexual bjs and anal sex.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 16:16 | 4748707 Milton Waddams
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According to Bob:

 

Upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town,
Asking for Mr Brown
I wanna know who (is Mr Brown)?
Is Mr Brown controlled by remote?

O-o-oh, calling duppy conqueror,
I'm the ghost-catcher!

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 17:10 | 4748848 NoTTD
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I thought one of the advantages of being black in America was that you didn't have to golf.

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