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Obama's One-Night-Stay At Brisbane G-20 Cost Taxpayers $1.7 Million
Having secured for himself the most expensive suite of all the leaders at the G-20 meeting in Brisbane, Australia on November 15th, The Daily Mail reports that President Obama's 4,096-room entourage of security guards and assistants cost taxpayers a stunning $1.732 million for the one-night-stand against Putin. "Some folks are being ripped off..."
The president's own room was the most expensive of all the world leaders at the summit as he based himself at the $2,000 (AUS$2,500) a night Marriott Hotel.
Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott opted for the thrifty $270-a-night Rydges hotel, while Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe required just $170 of public funds for his stay at Novotel.
China's Xi Jinping came closest to Obama's bill, spending $1,450 on his room, followed by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who handed British taxpayers a $1,070 bill for his stay.
And as The Weekly Standard adds,
The estimated total cost for the three hotels was about $1,732,000; based on an estimated 4,096 room nights, the per room cost comes to $423 per night.
The Justification documents for the three contracts state that the cost is "fair and reasonable based on the pricing available across the city of Brisbane at the time of the visit."
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Finally, the G-20 leaders were up-in-arms over Putin moving 3 warships near Australia's waters... how did they feel about Obama invading them with over 4000 Americans?
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Look, there's the inflation the Fed has been saying exists!
Wow this shit is crumbling faster than I think.
We ripped off some folks
We hired some hookers
huh, sterotypes...some r true with some folks i reckon
Putting that black ass in goys face again.
The last official act of any government is to loot the nation
You can't hold *this* president accountable (for anything.) That's rayciss. Or at least half rayciss.
So why the hell does a room cost $2000 a night?
Better get the drool trays out, zh'ers gon git mad at dat o'bungler!!! Dis unprecedentad!!
Um, yeah, I'm pretty fucking mad, considering I'm facing an unaffordable tax bill in a few short months while this asshole piece of shit spends more in one night than I'll make, gross, in a decade.
Now please explain to me what the fuck "precedent" has to do with anything. Better yet, just explain what your dipshit comment is supposed to mean in the first place, especially since you felt it was so important that it just had to be up at the top.
If you're makin ~200k and facing an 'unaffordable TAX bill' you probably should spend more time worrying about your accountant than Obama's travel costs.
This article is bullshit clickbait - obamas travels are not out of the ordinary (how many times did the bush family go for vacation in africa?? at least this wasn't a vacation) only reason tyler posts this shit is for the predictable mouth drooler zh response, so I'm just joining the fun. Dat blaq man stole'd my monay!!!
"But Bush..." Wtf, way to pile on the stupidity. We're all a little dumber for having read that.
No, nowhere near 200K. I could've said 2+ decades, but the point was [probably] clear to anyone who has more than a couple brain cells to rub together. I'm not sorry if that excludes you.
Alright well we all know being poor in US&A sucks and certainly y'all is taxed too much. But imma say the evil black man's perfectly-in-line with past expenditures on travel ain't the real source of your problems, it's a nice partisan distraction though.
Right, because I clearly blamed my lot in life on Obama's travel schedule. And clearly my criticism here stems from my hatred of black men in general.
James Cole, slayer of strawmen, attacker of "clickbait." Truly the hero we neither needed nor deserved.
whaddya all expect, he's the emperor!
The government is looting the nation.
The Chinese (and their Asian counterparts) are sucking our bank accounts dry as we borrow money to fill our storage units with more crap.
...and the Money Changers (counterfeiters) are frantically creating trillions of virtual dollars for the billionaire boy's club.
tick, tick, tick, tick....
Reagan had "Voodoo Economics".
I present to you "Negro Economics". Spend like Jay-Z and Bae!
And f off all of you saying "racist". Its true.
Niggin it up...
If we get some more Obama hotel exercise room wimpy-workout pictures like last year's meeting, it'll all be worth it. A bargain at twice the price.
4000 rooms? You'd need to rent out Sydney Opera House just to meet and confer with all those advisors. If you need that many people to give advice the deal is too complicated and should be scrapped. I'd like to have the commemorative pen concession though.
Running a Teleprompter is hard. Don't forget, they have to prepare in advance everything he says and everything he thinks, and it is all being done by political appointees.
"Don't forget, they have to prepare in advance everything he says and everything he thinks" - that's tough when the choomwagon's involved...
Yep, I thought that figure looked dodgy as well. It turns out that it was 4000 room-nights, not rooms.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamas-one-night-brisbane-australia-...
While we are on the topic of extravagent over-expenditures, note that the 6,000-strong police force brought into Brisbane to defend the puppets made 14 arrests throughout G20. Fourteen.
http://youtu.be/vmKoiHHqOEU?t=31m24s
HAHAHAHA. Obama has since moved on to something more masculine....Stretchkins
https://www.stretchkins.com/?MID=5487401
Fuck It All! We have a printing press. We should pay that shit daily to keep the S.O.B. out of this country until his term expires.
(But maybe Kenya would give us a discount)
Meanwhile:
King Barry the XVI and Michelle Antoinette say:
"Let them eat sludge-cake."
http://www.bdcwire.com/teens-thank-michelle-obama-with-gross-school-lunch-photos/
He needs over 4000 people to go to a fucking meeting? Bull! It's a party!
50 are little boys, so you have to do this fractionally for it to make sense.
FORE!
Yeah, Obama thinks 'Boyz II Men' is a delivery service...
Lot of bullshit and $$$ for a nigga to be ignored, no?
No, no, it's the green's fees. Outrageous.
good campaign contributors, all of them
add to it the cost of jet fuel and obviously expensed dinners, hookers and blow for the entire entourage...... 1.7 Million is just the tip of it all.
All this to accomplish exactly jack levels of shit.
I'm sure it's all in good intention, like bringing up the GDP. I'm sure they'll be adding that very soon
Harry Truman paid for his own train ticket home after his last day in office; To this pompous self-serving asshole and his 4100 man entorage.This is how far we have fallen.
While millions of americans are struggling and 5 million american children are without a home. Let them eat Cake indeed.
"This is how far we have fallen."
I'll say that this is also emblematic of how much white guilt there is, that obombya is not held accountable at all, for anything. But I'll qualify that by asking, what does it mean to be 'white' and what does it mean to be 'black' - it's all misnomers and PC BS.
At least the Chinese are starting to catch up to us!
At this rate, they'll have surpassed us in arrogant "leadership" and GDP in a few years.
right. they should have taken tents.
I'd be glad to pay for it if only he decided to stay there.
No thanks - Mr Abbot's more than enough. (Along with the self - interested horde that count for "Politicians" these days in Australia)
...... what else would anyone expect from the corrupt incompetent arrogana narcissistic illegal indonesian kenyan alien muslim sociopathic pathologic liar in chief fudge packer only interested in its overpriveliged, opulent, grand imperial golf lifestyle on the backs of hard working tax paying U.S. citizen serfs and peasants....
Nothing but the best for the Nobel Prize Winner - he has earned it
Was Abe staying in a fucking broom closet...?? How in the hell is their a sub-$200 room in a place swanky enough for King Obama...??
He used points.
Abe has enough problems without being considered a spendthrift. Perhaps the smartest thing he has ever done.
He'd have been able to shave even more off by staying at a Formula 1 "establishment" - $99 a night used to be their "standard" rate!!
He stayed in the Fardman, top drawer though!
pods
Kinda like when Kramer was housing Japanese in his dresser
Japanese are used to very small spaces
Americans like Obama need big spaces, also it feeds his ego
i bet he rolled the ice machine into his room and is charging other leaders to fill their buckets.
No, you're thinking of Joe Biden. That's something Uncle Joe would do.
You know when he's at home in Delaware he charges his Secret Service detail rent to stay in his guest house. No lie. Charges guys rent who are there to protect him with their lives. What a compassionate American.
klintoons do the same in shataqua.
America the frugal: US Consumer Sentiment Survey | McKinsey & Company
penis inferiority complex
Maybe that is why I could not see why anyone would spend that kind of coin on a room.
:D
maybe I meant a penis WITH an inferiority complex
Nothing is too good for the worst president in US history, Barry Soetero. Did this tab include golfing privledges?
Woodrow Wilson was the worst IMO
We had some folks issue moar treasuries.
We face-ripped some people....
http://itmakessenseblog.com/files/2010/11/king-Obama-has-Spoken.jpg
Now that's folksy!
It's all free money anyway right?
Why the fuck must over 4000 people travel with that stupid cunt obama? 3000 was too embarrassing or something?
Or maybe they needed 4000 rooms most of which were to house his fat assed hypocritical wife's hypocritical fat ass. Stupidest fucking POSident ever.
Because the narcissist in chief needs that many sychophants and suck ups to feel good about himself.
Good thing we have a strong dollar right now...it could have been more....wonder if he ate roo on the barbie????
One Night in Brisbane
Brisbane, Antipode setting
And the city don't know what the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the slum world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time flies, doesn't seem a minute
Since the bathhouse had the catamite in it
All change, don't you know that when you
Play at this level, there's no ordinary venue...
Ebola Czar to Leave White House in February
Isn't this the same guy who didn't show up for any meetings?
dupe
Get 'im boy!
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Jesus fucking christ folks.
1.72 million quid for one night for this cunt? For this prompting reading imbecile? Does that not fuck you off? Fucks me off like.
This fucking idiot cunt swans around the world on your coin, just like mine mind, but mine seems to have a bit of a brain, yours is brain dead like, and on that type of coin, could make an entire county solvent? That not fuck you off?
Barry Sotero is a badly fitting puppet of badly fitting idiots who think we will swallow more of their nation wrecking, nation dividing, bollocks. Man against man and let these fucking imbeciles off the hook?
Dont think so cunts. Not this time you 'Rulers', just take a look at the mullato idiot cunt you thought you could divide nations by. Even the slowest of the down-syndrome kids have sussed Sotero out.
Imagine how the parents feel, and I mean no harm by any disabled child. Common sense isnt very common no more, and you all know this.
;-)
Love the mix and his cunts!
He's the highest ranking member of the FSA, what do you expect?
The downvoting cunt who says nowt,
Fancy a chat about that idiot cunt you think is the saviour of the free world then? After six years you fucking clown?
Come on then, put the Mix right then you fucking imbecile.
Or not eh?
Stupid fucking cunt.
;-)
This place be infested with either idiots, or downright cunts, and dont take my fucking word for it folks, read the the threads.
;-)
Though it may seem expensive, you need to look at the added productivity of him NOT being in the US.
and an anal cream pie, from Reggie
That's a nice gift for Australia's local economy. Now how about the US economy, or do you need a third term for that?
4000 posse for BO.
4000 Navy crewmen on 3 warships for VP.
TAXPAYERS got screwed either way.
Difference there being the 4000 crewmwen on the Russian "flotilla" are recycling their Country's taxpayers' monies back into their own economy - via their families, and the jobs / families of the Russian Navy support staff. Also, with the very evident anti-Russian sentiment amongst the G20 membership - having a means of fast relocation to "Russian Territory" would have been a very wise move on behalf of VP - it's called "covering your bases".
Obama "recycled" YOUR taxpayers' money into the economy of a foreign economy (ours - not that I'm particularly proud of that).
Mr Abe really set the best example, demonstrating frugality by actions rather than words.
So - the comprison isn't really that valid, is it.
FBI profilers mantra: "Behaviour reflects personality."
We checked-in some folks.
I wonder what shitlist you had to make to NOT go to Brisbane?
Let me be clear, it's Bush's fault.
Ben Yellin can print that. Fuck You Bernanke
"Obama's One-Night-Stay At Brisbane G-20 Cost Taxpayers $1.7 Million
Didn't cost me a thing. I checked. Gold, silver, steel and lead all accounted for.
An American, not US subject.
There is NO such thing as a "taxpayer." That is their euphemism for the victims of their theft. They want their victims to feel as if they have a hand, and a say, in how their money is spent. That way the "tax victims" won't pay attention to how their wealth was stolen from them in the first place.
That should be an impeachable act...
The rooms cost that. The travel was much more.
Scowly face at Putin.
That'll show him!
That's outrageous! There should have only been 4,095 rooms. I would have given the guy whose job it was to check for funnel-web spiders the day off.
4,094 rooms, no reason Mother in Law could't bunk in with the Pres.
A round of golf? Priceless. ;-)
ONE NIGHT STAND WITH CHOOM GANGSTA
'Meh, $1.7 million. Wait until they see the tab I'm going to run up in Hawaii this Christmas! Some folks are gonna be pissed!'
You didn't pay that!
The whole world did and will continue to do so, as long as they are using the Dollar, or are forced to use it. The US is exporting its Dollar inflation.
To Obama "Hotel bills don't matter" any more than "Deficits don't matter" to Darth Vader Cheney. For the exact same reason: The USD.
Capisce?
p.s. What, did they have a blue light special for Blue and Wine-red ties?
Fuckers should have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
what a lot of vitriol over such a trivial topic.
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Anyone want to make a guess as to how many tens of billions of dollars the stock market would go down if the President was assassinated?
Penis contest.
"Who's got the ruler? Whoever is longest gets to screw the other guys wives, while the rest watch."
Maybe thats why he doesn't bring Michele. And why Vlad's nickname is "The Impaler".
What's that old saying - '______' $rich...?
"Living well is the best revenge."
I wonder if he tipped the bellhop.
Well one thing is for sure. If the Portugese or the Greeks were at the G20 they would have stayed with relatives for the night.
Fuck the room fee, the plane tickets for that many people has got to be at least 3 times that much!
"Hey - everybody got a lapel pin. I didn't get a lapel pin!"
Put it on the Great Grand Kids tab.
it was in the budget, so its ok everyone! or check that, the "Continuing Resolution"
Did anyone expect Caliph Obama to stay at Motel 6 ???
Back in the late 1970s they had just built the first motel in Window Rock, Arizona.
An elderly Navajo came in to the desk and asked:
"how much for a room??"..
The desk clerk told him....
The elderly Navajo, taken aback with the price, responded:
"How much will it be if I only want to stay the night, instead of buying it??"
Does the Secret Service per diem include hookers?
Do we know the mini-bar tab?
that's highly suspicious.......
The POTUS is just helping the economy. His $400 per night room will help the service sector hire more employees and they will spend more money. duh
The next question is how did he get 4000 people to Australia?
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It cost the city a few million in lost revenue as it all had to be shut down for security so Obomya could drive to a speech at Brisbane University.