President Obama has vowed to make a compromise with GOP leaders and to make this impending crisis a top priority. With less than a month away, President Obama has been very busy, but not entirely engaged as millions of Americans are expecting.
The Hawaii Reporter revealed that the Obama's are planning their annual holiday vacation trip to the luxurious Kailuana Place beach side resort. The estimated cost for this trip tops 4 million dollars for only 20 days of a little "R and R."
The characterized "Robin Hood" Commander in Chief has based his entire campaign on this "steal from the rich and give to the poor" persona. He has promised to increase taxes on the rich, and thus far, has not budged from that decision. However, Barry has ridden this perceptive wave for the last time. The top 1% can absolutely afford such a lavish getaway, but could the president?
Barrack Obama is responsible for paying his own rental, but according to the Reporter, everything else- including the security detail, flight on Air Force One, Local Police, staffing, equipment, and the water-front housing for all secret service and security staff- will be picked up by the tax payer.
Those earning within the top 1%, as promised, will be writing the check, and so will you.
99.9% of Americans would jack-pot on a "once in a life-time" Obama vacation. Although, a "once in a life-time" is exactly what this vacation is not. 99.9% of Americans, grinding out forty to sixty hours a week, cannot afford this and will never afford this. 99.9% of Americans cannot dish out 4 million dollars for 20 days of "fun in the sun." 99% of Americans will never earn 4 million dollars in a single year, nor in 20 years.
100% of working Americans will, however, pay for this. But he's the president, the Commander in Chief, the man who has always been there for the poor- thus, deserves the time off considering he has been so actively occupied mending this nation's economic crisis. I do not disagree that Obama is scheming to assault the rich. Nor do I disagree that the President is calculating a treacherous agenda against the everyday working American to feed his gluttonous spending habits within his domestic and foreign policy, and now (as evident) within his personal life as well.
With countless banquette dinners hosting the worlds most rich and powerful, personal performances by celebrity musical artists, and multimillion dollar vacations, we now have come to understand that your majesty Baracckus Obamus cannot fathom a life without extravagance. He is no man for the middle class, and no man for the poor. He is living large feeding off of the writhing, desperate bottom feeders that claw their way each and everyday solely for survival.
He is no different, despite what the media forces down our gullets, than every other ravenous, obese politician who has ever "saddled-up" on the American working-class. Let's go after these ginormous pensions and cut back on some of the perks for these individuals working so very "diligently" on restitching this terrifying financial crisis that they have created.
Want to know how much Obama's trip will cost you? Check out these stats from the Hawaii Reporter:
[A conservative estimate with rooms
at $270 (excluding a 9.25 percent Transient Accommodation Tax and a 4.712
percent General Excise Tax on each bill, meals, internet charges and other
charges) means the taxpayers are covering more than $129,600 in
hotel bills for some two dozen staff.
LOCAL TAXPAYER COSTS: $260,000
Local police are paid over time for
the President’s visit, which has historically cost Oahu taxpayers $250,000.
The city ambulance the accompanies
the President 24 hours a day through his entire visit is about $10,000 to
city taxpayers.
UNKNOWN COSTS
There are several costs the White
House annually refuses to release, citing security.
For example, the President’s security usually rents an entire floor of an office building in Kailua on the canal during the president’s stay.
There are security upgrades and additional phone lines to several private homes where Obama and friends are staying. That includes bullet proof glass installed, home security systems disabled, new security measures put into place and additional phone lines added.
There is the cost for car rentals and fuel for White House staff staying at a Waikiki Hotel.
And there are additional travel costs Secret Service and White House staff traveling ahead of the President.
The total cost (based on what is
known) for a 20-day round trip vacation to Hawaii for the President and his
family and staff and security is more than $4 million.
Hawaii Reporter annually has requested details on the cost of the
President’s trip, but the White House will not release any figures, citing
security concerns. A spokesperson has maintained the costs are "in
line" with other presidential vacations.]
Yes Mr. President, well all know how passionate you are for the middle and lower classes, and how concerned you are for the upcoming fiscal cliff.
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