Obama's Sequester Vacation--$100 Mill

Yes, we can't keep the White House open for tours and military servicemen cannot get their education help, but the Obamas can go on a $100 million vacation. (And that estimate is probably very low.) Yes, we need to worry about sequestration but not our President!

This man is the least concerned President ever. Even Jimmy Carter wore a sweater when he turned down the thermostats at the White House. Obama probably increased the temps and ordered more caviar. 

Anyone who thinks that he cares about you or your family is naive. He is concerned with one person and one person only--that is Barack Hussein  Obama. No one else. We doubt he really cares about his wife and daughters. We know that Michelle had no problem going away for vacation while he celebrated his birthday at the White House, alone. There is not a lot of love there, only political power and a whole lot of  "what can I get" attitude.

This upcoming trip is the most expensive vacation they have ever taken and it occurs while the country is trying to recover from one of the worst economic patches in history. That does not matter. The image of him spending time in Africa, his father's continent, is the overriding thought and damn the cost. "America owes it to the Obama family."

So there you have it, our imperial President. Bush went to his home in Texas and worked. Reagan went to his ranch and chopped wood.  Obama globe trots the world and plays.  Three different Presidents, two different attitudes toward America. Which would you rather lead this country?

Conservative Tom

Obama Family Vacation To Africa… $100 Million, Shooting Holes In Sequester-Impact Lies… Priceless

June 13, 2013 by Sam Rolley 

Between $60 million and $100 million worth of Federal assets — including a large naval ship, 56 support vehicles, truckloads of bulletproof glass, fighter jets and hundreds of Federal personnel — will soon be shipped to sub-Saharan Africa. Is a small scale military operation being planned in an area of civil unrest? Nope… President Barack Obama is taking the wife and kids on vacation.

The costly preparations for the Presidential were revealed in documents obtained by The Washington Post. The newspaper reports:

Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency.

Military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with sheets of bulletproof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family will stay. Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president’s airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close.

The extraordinary security provisions — which will cost the government tens of millions of dollars — are outlined in a confidential internal planning document obtained by The Washington Post. While the preparations appear to be in line with similar travels in the past, the document offers an unusual glimpse into the colossal efforts to protect the U.S. commander-in-chief on trips abroad.

While Obama’s predecessors have also taken costly family trips to the same region, the current President’s costly African adventure comes after months of his warning that across-the-board government budget cuts would cripple public services. His Administration made the decision to shut down White House tours to drive home the point.

Mrs. Obama, She Ain't Your Normal First Lady

Michelle Obama likes to spend our money as if she was something special and in her mind she is!  The trouble is that she does not respect the people of this country nor does she understand the remarkable journey that the country has provided she and Barack.  They want more and more  and like any spoiled child are less and less thankful. Like Eva Peron, Marie Antoinette and Imelda Marcos, these "first ladies" (note the lack of capitalization) wanted all their country could provide and gave little back except outrageous spending.

Maybe it is time for Michelle to live out her life as an average citizen, however, we doubt that will ever happen. We expect that after they leave the office either this year, in four or when Barack is thrown out, we can expect the Obamas to be another divorce statistic when Mrs. Obama finds someone who can more adequately fund her spending.

Conservative Tom

“Material Girl” Michelle Obama, Our Modern-Day Marie Antoinette – while Barack Obama preaches Class Warfare

Read More About: Glitzy Spanish vacation, No. of Americans on food stamps increase from 32-46 million, Salary $317000 per year, winter in Aspen Co, X-mas in Hawaii

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From: The Amateur by Edward Klein
http://israel-commentary.org/?p=4656
If Michelle ever had any reservations about Barack’s grandiose political dreams, they didn’t come from her qualms about politics, but from her belief that he wasn’t aiming high enough. For example, when he ran for a seat in the Illinois State legislature, Michelle told him that it was “too small time.”
For the first several years of their marriage, Michelle and Barack lived in a flat in a lower-middle-class neighborhood. But after Barack’s memoir Dreams from My Father hit the bestseller lists and he joined the United States Senate, the couple moved to a million-dollar mansion, and Michelle landed a cushy job at the University of Chicago Medical Center with a salary of $317,000 a year. It hardly seemed a coincidence that Valerie Jarrett was the medical center’s chairwoman, and that a hospital board member, Kelly R. Welsh, was an executive vice president at Northern Trust Company, which had extended the Obamas a $1.3 million home mortgage.
Chicago-style cronyism marked Michelle’s tenure at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Given all her righteous talk about “fundamental change,” “access,” “opportunity,” and “fairness,” everyone expected Michelle to promote programs to assist the underprivileged denizens of the black South Side. Instead, she helped launch a program, dubbed the South Side Health Collaborative, to save the hospital millions of dollars by redirecting poor and uninsured patients from its emergency room to surrounding community hospitals in the South Side. The University of Chicago’s Medical Center beds were reserved for prosperous patients who used profitable procedures.
The president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Dr. Nick Jouriles, released a statement saying Michelle’s program came “dangerously close to ‘patient dumping,’ a practice made illegal by the emergency Medical Labor and Treatment Act, and reflected an effort to ‘cherry pick’ wealthy patients over poor.”
Michelle’s actual annual salary, between the university and serving on six boards of directors, including Walmart, approached $500,000.
On February 18, 2008, upon the nomination of her husband, Michelle blurted out her true beliefs about the country that had treated her and her husband so well. Speaking in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, would-be First Lady Michelle Obama said, “For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.”
Another example of Michelle’s impulsive, narcissistic nature was her decision to go on a lavish vacation to Spain even though practically her entire staff advised against it. She overruled them and flew off on an Air Force 757 along with three shifts of uniformed plainclothes agents and military personnel Her security entourage numbered seventy people. Her vast army of support personnel checked into the Villa Padierna Palace Hotel in Marbella, a five-star resort on the Spanish Costa del Sol.
The trip cost American taxpayers several hundred thousand dollars, and the backlash was harsh and immediate. A column by Andrea Tantaros in the New York Daily News was headlined: Material Girl Michelle Obama Is a Modern-Day Marie Antoinette on a Glitzy Spanish Vacation.”
Though the trip to Spain garnered most of the publicity, it was hardly Michelle’s only foray into expensive vacations. Between August 2010 and August 2011, she spent a total of forty-two days on vacation – or one out of every nine days. (During the same period of time, the number of Americans on food stamps increased from thirty-two to forty-six million.)
In February 2012, just weeks after a seventeen-day Christmas vacation in Hawaii, Michelle decided she needed another break With gas prices at an historic winter high, the government struggling to cut the federal deficit and many American families forgoing their annual holiday vacations. Michelle thumbed her nose at political convention and jetted off with Sasha and Malia on Presidents’ Day weekend for the upmarket ski slopes of Aspen, Colorado.
“Several people had known about the ‘low-key’ vacation with the Secret Service in town for the past few days scoping out places for the family to relax and enjoy what the resort has to offer” wrote Aspen Daily News columnist Carolyn Sackariason . Pritkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo confirmed that he had met with the Secret Service and had loaned seven deputies to help protect the first lady and her family.
The question naturally arises: Why would someone who is as politically savvy as Michelle Obama do such foolish things? The answer seems to lie in Michelle’s personality, which is acquisitive and materialistic by nature. For her forty-fourth birthday, Obama bought his wife something she had long coveted—a set of diamond stud earrings. He spent $5,000. She promptly returned them in exchange for bigger diamonds that cost $12,000.
“Michelle has expensive tastes,” writes Carol Felsenthal in chicagomag.com. “It was she who wanted to trade up from their two-bedroom condominium on the first floor of a three-story walkup, for which they had paid $277,500 in 1993, to the $1.65 million six-bedroom Georgian revival Kenwood mansion that landed them in a deal with the wife of Tony Rezko, the convicted felon and fundraiser/fixer….”
I guess for our own Marie Antoinette, it is now not such a bad country after all.