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Obama's Hawaii Vacation: $8 Million; Secret Service: $317k; Nailing A 40-Foot Chip: Priceless
Thanks to the deep digging from Judicial Watch, we now know that President Obama's Christmas 2013 vacation to Hawaii cost taxpayers a handy $8.1 million. The itinerary, we are sure, was very similar to this year's golfing (and shave ice) extravaganza, which explains why, the known total expense to the American taxpayers thus far for all Obama travel is now $70,880,035.78. Well, it's only fair right?
Judicial Watch announced today that it recently received expense records from the Department of Homeland Security revealing that Secret Service expenses for the Obama family vacation to Honolulu during December 2013-January 2014 cost taxpayers at least $316,698.03. These new expenses bring the total for the Hawaii Christmas vacation trip to $8,098,060.33. The Secret Service waited nearly two years to produce the requested numbers to Judicial Watch.
The heavily redacted records were obtained on December 28 in response to a January 6, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. According to the records:
- $91,751.78 in car rental expenses were paid
- $224,974.05 in accommodation expenses were paid to Cabana Girl, LLC and Paradise Luxury Rentals
The documents are heavily redacted and the Secret Service is withholding 28 pages in their entirety.
Saying he was “eager to skip town” Obama took his family to Honolulu on December 20, 2013, for a 17-day Christmas vacation. As reported by The Washington Post:
The presidential motorcade ferried the Obamas across Oahu, the state’s most populous island, to the well-to-do oceanfront neighborhood of Kailua, where as in years past they have rented a private home for what this time will be a 17-day holiday vacation.
For the sixth straight year, Obama plans to spend Christmas and New Year’s in Hawaii, gathering with extended family and friends — and, yes, perfecting his golf game.
In March 2014, Judicial Watch released flight expense records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that for this Hawaii vacation the Obamas incurred $7,781,361.30 in flight expenses alone (36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour).
This was the first Judicial Watch FOIA request about Obama’s security costs the Secret Service has answered since July, 2014.
Last month, Judicial Watch separately sued the Department of Homeland Security for ignoring 19 other FOIA requests. The FOIA lawsuit asks the court to enjoin the Secret Service from continuing to withhold responsive documents from Judicial Watch (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:15-cv-01983)).
The known total expense to the American taxpayers thus far for all Obama travel is now $70,880,035.78.
“It seems our lawsuits finally got the attention of the Secret Service. It is easy to see why the Secret Service, reeling from its own scandals, covered up these outrageous expense numbers for just one of Obama’s luxury Christmas vacation,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
“The $317,000 in Secret Service expenses are only the tip of the iceberg for the true cost of Obama’s 2013 vacation in Hawaii, which has now skyrocketed to $8,098,060. It is nice to know that Obama’s ‘tradition’ of Christmas vacations in Hawaii comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.”
Priceless!!
You're welcome Mr. President.
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But he droned women and children and wedding parties while he was on vacation. And told lies about NSA spying. So it was worth it.
Obama family 'costs taxpayers $1.4 BILLION per year' (that's 20 times more expensive than British Royal Family)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210323/Obama-family-costs-taxpa...
Enjoy it while you can, Barry. Your day of reckoning will come and the world will know you for the imposter puppet that you are.
Not sure how you describe your comment, J S. Double Negative, Negation of the Negation, Mixed/Simple Metaphor.
A Filthy Lying Cunt is O'Barry.
Lighten up, y'all. Even Jesus said there would always be the poor, though I'll wager he never thought that one man could make so damned many of them. Meanwhile, back on the links...
"Nice shot, Mr. President."
where are da Knee grows?
Gas Grass or Ass... Nobody rides AIR FORCE ONE for free!
I got an e-mail today, sporting a Photoshopped O'Blammie with a bald head.
Caption said " Oh, Look ! Michelle shaved her pussy ! "
Priceless.
HaHa
Please post a link.
Do wookies go 'Bear' down there?
eeewh.
you need to announce a warning before others gag reflex
Does that wookie shave include the cost of the hedge clippers needed?
If by reckoning you mean, delivering $200K half ass speeches, then yeah, he's a year away.
It makes one cringe when filling out your income tax return!
I don't have a problem with him going on vacation. I have a problem with him coming back from vacation.
Worthless clown... Why pay for his vacations ?
Has anyone seen this BS about 0bozoCare,
Looks like BS from the Ryan's Omnibus to extend consequences of 0care past the "Selection" date next year, Go Hitlery!
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Why the hell are any of these *president* allowed into Washington...shouldn't they be chained to a golf course for the 4 year term? Then serve a life term in prison?
I think we would be much better off if we just eliminated the Presidency.
Hey, look it only took eight long years to get one on tape allegedly.
ZH copy/paste algos go nuts over Obama - a President went on holiday and it cost money...what a revelation.
Oh, of course the EXTRAVAGANCE couldn't possibly be an issue.
You probably think the Obama family's frequent and garishly expensive vacations are resented only because they're black, right, Drone?
and Normalcy throws a touchdown
inewsroom - im guessing ur a democrat who has zero problem raising someone elses taxes in-order to pay for free shit for anyone so-long as they vote your way, for your way of thinking, regardless how extra hard those people have to work in-order to full-fill your ideals.
there once was a president by the name of calvin coolidge. i suggest you do a little research on who he was & how he ran that house. oh, and here's a little nugget: at the time, we were a little less-than $19 trillion in debt.
That would be rayciss.So Ill just say;
Look at the price of peanuts nowadays.
newsroom -- you waited all day to post that insipid inane superficial sophmoric comment? pathetic
ObamaClaus said Ho, Ho, Ho, F you taxpayers....
http://comicallyincorrect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Santa-audit-600...
Still working tirelessly to help the Middle Class, I see...
Barry at least does not belong to any class.
In fact he has no class to speak of.
But Bush
I have not had a vacation since 1969 when the Apollo Moon Landing was televised. Methinks the one per cent took all the disposable income, and discretionary income, over my lifetime so that the 1% could have $8 Million dollar golf vacations on my dime.
They'll be back for MOAR, Master.
MOAR
Your organs are next...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/28/opinions/hill-organ-donor-rules/index.html
Maybe so, but one cannot get blood from stones, or people that have no money whatsoever. Frankly, if I don't find full time work soon I will be selling all of my furniture, tools, and machinery, just to eek out some survival rent, and food. After that I will be taking a dirt nap to save on the costs of living.
Note: People can be taxed to death, but dead people cannot be taxed back to life, thank God.
This man is a box full of bad surprises, as said before the worst, most narcissistic president ever.
life is like a box of chocolates, one of them ended up in the white house
No library for you.
the politicos call themselves public servants.
Public Enemies is more appropriate buzz!
agreud
I CRINGE when I hear them refer to themselves as "Public Servants" as if they've been making some great sacrifice in the name of aiding their country and fellow citizen.
97% or better of politicos are in it only for themselves, which explains the state of the nation.
THE BARNHARDT AXIOM:
The fact that a given person is holding or seeking high-level public office is, in and of itself, proof that said person is morally and/or psychologically UNFIT to hold public office.
So…
I think your percentage is a little low.
Self Serving Parasites.
Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord...
Some folks inherit star spangled eyes
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer Moar! moar! moar!
[/Creedence]
Fortunate Son.
That song always reminds me of G. W. Bush.
The man has no class, no discretion, no sense of shame. He is all ego. Most really rich folks have the good sense not to flaunt it when in the company of the less well off. Here we have a president, governing in the time of America's deepest depression and he is out golfing in the sun. Someone should tell him that it doesn't look good.
When I'm rich I plan to be the soul of discretion. I will not eat caviar until you at least have beans. If I get really really rich I'll personally see to it that there are weenies with your beans.
On the other hand if some sucker is paying the bill.......maybe we'll both have 2 of everything.
That is what it looks like Barry, you are dining on the peoples dime while the people suffer....wha...OK then..we'l try the cake...
We're not in the time of "America's deepest depression..." Only someone with no sense of history believes that. All you have to do is go back 7 years - we're you not on this planet in the fall of '08?
Seriously? Do you know how many prior presidents have done the exact same thing?
GW had the following amazing display of sincerity and concern.
'And Bush drew liberal scorn in August 2002 when he began a round of golf in Kennebunkport with a somber denunciation of a bus bombing in Israel.
"I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers," he said. "Now watch this drive."'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCm9788Tb5g
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-s-vacations-and-golf-outings--by-the-numbers-211532262.html
and he never golfed again while in office. He also went to see the wounded on a weekly basis, without the press.
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FORE !!!!!! WARD.
yeah, it fair to y'all da rubes cuz y'all da rubes vote him in...'n den pay fo' it all too peepses...'n den go back to woik da nex day...to pay fo' da nex one...it be like votin' jus' gib dem pahmission...
Oh yeah? How much has GW's Iraq endeavour cost us?
This is the price he negotiated with the neo's for giving them everything they want. Unlimited vacation expenses!
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If someone put a cap or three in obama's noggin I would grab my AR and run outside and blast 5.56 rounds skywards like it was a muzzie wedding. When that clown got elected I put aside my bias and said to myself, well, he's in, I hope he can back up his promises. 7 yrs later I have grown to despise the SOB. The WH lit up with the rainbow flag, I will carry that despicable image to my grave. Fuck obama in his man pussy with a broken INBEV beer bottle.
At least he stopped the NSA from spying on congress before he went to Hawaii, right? Kerry said that they straightened out the whole Syrian debacle, so that deserves a 17 day Hawaiian vacation, surely.
Don't worry, we have already added the billions to our new digital currency expansion here at the Fraudural Reserve.
It's all funny money anyway, until the prices of goods and services skyrocket and the store shelves are empty and the rioting begins.
By then, us A-holes at the Fraud will take our positions in our fully stocked bunkers to ride things out as you serfs fight among yourselves and try to figure out how it all happened.
Yes, the secret service goes with the president on vacation. Something that has been done for decades with Bush, Clinton, etc. That's a non story.
Obama: Making ____________ great again!
Fill in the blank
well hey what's the problem. Just CEO Perks.
Nigga Pleazz !
$70m is about $0.005/taxpayer. Get a grip.
billions, trillions, quadrillions....
not a penny will be repaid anyway, so what the heck.
a $2 TRILLION inflow from tax receipts, and annual expenditures of $3 TRILLION = $1 TRILLION deficit/year.
It's how a $9 TRILLION debt has now turned into $20 TRILLION debt during Obumma's presidency.
It is estimated that in 4 years, the cost to just pay the interest on this growing mountain of debt will cost $2 TRILLION = entire amount of tax receipts. It won't be long now. The rubber band is set to snap. long overdue. I hope the recoil tears their hand off. I hope they get their share of suffering, as the public does their suffering.
when we are piss assed broke it does matter... "I feel your pain"... FUCK YOU.
Please show the math.
Sucker, I downvoted you because either your facts or your math is SUCK.
Most of the approximately 243 million adults in the United States, as of 2013, pay some type of federal taxes. About 122 million Americans pay federal income tax.
$70,000,000 / 243,000,000 taxpayers = $0.28 each
$70,000,000 / 122,000,000 taxpayers = $0.57 each
Aint the point though,
Collectivism SUCKS.
Didn't what Michelle make for being in The Force Awakens pay for some of that?
We probably should be thankful thats all it cost! A nigga will always take advantage of free shit.
Who in their right mind would want that fuck head in the oval office?
Leave him be...the longer he is on vacation...the better off we all will be
2 or 3 years from now you'll be begging him to come back. The assholes in line for his job will make him look like a genius.
Gimmie summadat social just-us!
Must be nice to take an $8 Million vacation when you make $400,000 per year, and a $50,000 expense allowance.
The expendetures recirculeted tax revenue to the populace. A win win.
The populace paid that tax money... It went to his enjoyment.
How did a majority of tax-payers win?
economy driven economy.... till it doesn't..
Playing golf is like dying and going to hell. I remember playing with my friends in high school and couldn't get to the 18th hole fast enough. It's comparabloe to watching grass grow. I never went back.
#DOUCHE
END THE FED!
Are we hoping we get some change from that?
Fuck you, your family and everything you entail you cocksucking demon muslim piece of shit. i hope you die a torturous gruesome death at the hands of your muzzie fuckboys.
Just curious. Is Cabana Girls, LLC an escort service? Because I don't see a line item expense for hookers for the Secret Service.
If the President of the United States of America makes a yearly salary of $500k why does that President get an $8 Million dollar vacation?
I am unemployed so I think I should get at least a $16 Million dollar vacation given what O'Bummer gets.
When you are the most admired man in the world whats a few fiat dollars.
17 day vacation! WTF?? Seems they keep getting longer every year. It must be exhausting, destroying your country from within and destabilizing the entire world.
Keep working and paying taxes, you stupid White people; King Tut, deserves more time off.
I really need to find the vid, showing his golfing form...
I've seen it, he clean misses the ball and a secret service guy surreptitiously drops another ball into the cup.
We are talking Minigolf with the Windmill course on the third hole where the Secret Service stops the fan motor from turning the windmill blades so the President of the United States of America can get through the third hole and onto the shot that goes through the Clown Mouth and over the bridge to the fifth hole Pendulum Course, eh?
If the President gets through the entire Minigolf circuit he gets a free milkshake at the canteen.
Hang all these motherfuckers
Since Obummer in essence works for me, and I am in essence paying for his vacation, I think I will deduct the expense from my income taxes.
I'd be happy to buy him a one way ticket back to Kenya. Hell, I'd even spring for first class.
Does anyone around Obama tell him that he's ridiculed and held in contempt by large numbers of the American people?
What will he and his "wife" do after he's kicked out of the White House
People can then call him "One Dumb Nigger" on the street and not get arrested or killed by the Secret Service.
"Obama signs law giving himself, Bush lifetime Secret Service guard"http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-signs-law-giving-himself-bush-l...
So, taking the total figure of $8,098,060.33 and subtracting the expense of taking Air Force One from Washington to Hawaii of $7,781,361.30, the cost of Obama's vacation per se is a total of $316,699.03 for accommodations and local transport for a four-person family and an entourage of dozens. As opposed to the roughly $8000 in airfare and $5,000 in accommodations which the Obamas would have paid if it were a private vacation rather than the travelling circus which perforce accompanies the head of the most powerful nation in the world.
Sorry, this is a non-issue. All but a fraction of the costs are attributable to the fact that a President travelling without his Goon Squad will be murdered within 48 hours. Air Force One exists because a President CAN'T fly on a common carrier without risking the lives of everyone else on board as well as himself and his family. Especially a President who has attached such a devoted following of enemies as this one.
Granted, we have had Presidents who were better equipped to protect themselves without the professionals than this one. But there's nothing in the job description that requires POTUS to be able-bodied ex-military with self-defense skills. That's a requirement that used to be attached to monarchs, but we've always insisted that our Presidents are Civilians.
Where is a tactical nuke when you need one?
<-- CabalA$$LickerLiarAddictObamma loves playing with white balls
at the cost of millions
I think this headline should be:
It cost taxpayers at least $316,698.03 for Obama to take his guns on vacation!
Fancy paying that absurd amount of money for somebody to take down the USA ! Out of this world ! The USA taxpayers must have ROCKS in their heads !
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