Obama Family Spends Like They Own The Country

Here’s how much the Obama family has spent on vacations over the last eight years

Tré Goins-Phillips December 5, 2016 5:28 pm

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Over the past eight years, President Barack Obama and his family have spent more than $10 million a year for travel and vacations, totaling in excess of $85 million — and the number is still growing.

The numbers were revealed Monday by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. The organization has been tracking the president’s travel spending for several years and just disclosed, based on bills it received this week, that the first family spent almost $5 million in taxpayer money for their annual Christmas vacation to Hawaii last year.

The Obamas, who will officially move out of the White House on Jan. 20, are expected to leave soon for their annual Christmas trip, which last year lasted from Dec. 18 to Jan. 3.

The exact number for the 2015 holiday trip rang in at $4,823,206.88, which accounted for a robust U.S. Secret Service apparatus, flights and transportation and lodging for the security officials. That number does not include the costs for prepositioning aircraft and ships in the area or much of the necessary communications to protect the president and his family.

“The Secret Service and the Air Force are being abused by unnecessary travel,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said in a statement on the matter. “Unnecessary presidential travel for fundraising and luxury vacations on the taxpayers’ dime would be a good target for reform for the incoming Trump administration.”

From the Judicial Watch report:

According to bills obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Secret Service also paid for rooms at the Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki and Golf Club.  The Secret Service also reserved rooms at the Moana Surfrider resort on Waikiki Beach, and the Ala Moana Hotel, which cost a total of $40,249.48 and $671,895.99, respectively.

The Secret Service rented cars from Avis, Alamo, and Hertz — 103 cars for the two-week vacation, totaling $165,893.88 in taxpayer money.

Reportedly, the Obamas stayed at the Hale Reena Estate, which “rents for anywhere between $5,000 to $10,000 a night, depending on the season.”

The first family also dined at several top-of-the-line restaurants while they were on the trip, which — in addition to the fees for the food — required presidential-level security.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the information in January and the documents were released in response to a lawsuit filed on May 6.

Why Would A President Want To Give Up 70 Million In Vacations? Obama Will NEVER Earn That Much Money, NO Less Pay For A House, Cars,Air Travel, Food, Chefs And All The Other Benefits Of The Office! Obama Ain't Leavin'

How Much is President Obama's
Golf Game Costing America?

• Dec 18, 2015 
• Source: AAN 
• by: AAN Staff

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Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan were frequently 

criticized by their opponents for their casual attitudes

 while in office, although later conversations with 

those closest to the two men suggested that this 

was merely a ruse, and that they were both highly

 competent and engaged during critical periods

 of American history. 

It's unlikely that President Obama will get the same treatment. While ISIS is on the march, 

Obama spends his days attending fundraisers and going on vacation. And now, the bill has 

come due. No surprise here, it's huge:

There was the weekend trip for President Barack Obama and his daughters

to New York, including a Broadway show and a private museum tour.

The ski trip to Aspen, Colorado, for first lady Michelle Obama in February.

And lots and lots of golf in Florida, Southern California and Martha’s

Vineyard, Mass.

Now as the Obama family departs Friday on its annual holiday vacation to

Hawaii, new estimates put the price tag of the Obamas’ 2015 trips that are

all or largely personal at $11.6 million for travel costs alone, according to the

conservative group Judicial Watch, based on federal government records.

That brings the overall cost of personal or largely personal travel to at

least $70.5 million since Obama took office in 2009, according to the

group’s analysis.

The costs of Air Force One and other government planes as well as

helicopters, limos and other unique parts of presidential travel often

raise questions about the need.

“My gosh, we can’t afford it,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial

Watch, which is pushing for less personal travel and for security

changes.

But others call it a necessary part of security and convenience for a

commander-in-chief.

“In this environment, I don’t think anyone on either side of the aisle is

advocating for them to do less,” said Dave Carney, a White House

political director for President George H.W. Bush and a critic of what

he called posh Obama vacations. “No one wants to say we need less

security and then something happens.”

President Obama's love of leisure is a slap in the face of an already beleaguered, 

underpaid American tax base. We will be glad to see him go.

 Source: AAN

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obama-s-golf-game-costing-america#sthash.t72m4Llz.dpuf

Who Would Want To Leave A Job That Gives You Multi Million Vacations At Taxpayer Expense?

The Final Bill For Obama’s 2015 Vacations Just Released… Prepare Yourself, It’s INFURIATING

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Seven years ago, then-Sen. Barack Hussein Obama promised Americans that he would refrain from taking vacations — particularly excessive ones — if he were elected president.

The latest report from Judicial Watch makes it clear that he lied to get elected (as if that had been in doubt).

Specifically, the report revealed that Obama has spent $3,115,688.70 on travel expenses this year alone making unnecessary trips to Palm Springs, New York City and Martha’s Vineyard.

Obama’s outing to Palm Springs in June, which in itself cost $2,187,172.20, was for playing golf, while his trip to New York City the following month was for hanging out and “sightseeing” with daughters Sasha and Malia.

His final trip, made in August, was for playing golf again, this time with former president and possible accessory to murder Bill Clinton, as well as a few others.

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“President Obama evidently cares not one whit about the costs to beleaguered taxpayers for his personal and political travel,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in regard to these expensive excursions.

Fitton added that it was highly inappropriate for Obama to use Air Force One, as well as “an army of law enforcement,” just to go sightseeing in New York with his daughters.

“Barack Obama is enamored with the presidency’s trappings of power, and taxpayers are left holding the tab,” Fitton concluded.

Note also that the $3,115,688.70 price tag does not take into consideration security costs, which have yet to be revealed by the Secret Service.

Furthermore, the total amount of vacation expenses accrued by both the Obamas and the Bidens during the past seven years is a ridiculous $70,563,336.75.

And yet this same man just recently vetoed a defense bill that would have empowered our soldiers overseas with the tools and equipment they need to keep fighting the good fight.

Talk about backward priorities …

H/T The Daily Caller

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