Two Travel for the Price of Two!
March 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaIts bad [according to the Left] when a ‘rich person’ has the money AND decides to spend it like this. But when The Obamas do it, its, well, no big deal.
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Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane … No, it’s two planes!
Two taxpayer-funded planes, that is. And on those two planes last Thursday were two occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, jetting across country to the same destination — L.A.
Separate planes. Your money.
Ready for the pain?
You’re going to need a No. 2 pencil and scrap paper for this.
Estimates are that Air Force One costs about $206,000 per hour to operate. You could go on Priceline right now and book a round-trip itinerary from Boston to LAX for between $500 and $1,000 total. For what it costs taxpayers to ferry the POTUS, one-way, to Jimmy Kimmel for the all-crucial mission of reading “mean tweets,” you could book 1,000 round-trip flights from Boston to Los Angeles.
And since FLOTUS took to the skies on her own plane to dance on “Ellen,” you might want to double that.
Oh yeah, add in Marine One, and two separate motorcades, security, etc.
And because they need to do it all again in order to get back to D.C. … double that.
If you did the math, you know the result. Millions of dollars of taxpayer money spent in a handful of hours in one day so that the first couple could travel, separately, in opulence across the country. And all to get their Hollywood cool on to impress people in circles where fist-bumps matter.
Millions of your dollars.
Take heart, though, the president didn’t borrow your plane exclusively for a tacky Tinseltown glamour shot. He also took time to hobnob at a swanky Hollywood fundraiser — his 32nd in 21 visits to the area since he took office, according to the Los Angeles ABC affiliate.
The president’s love for Air Force One has been on display since way back in 2009 when he gleefully hopped aboard the snazziest of all 747s for a 156-mile jaunt to a Democratic Party function in Virginia. He couldn’t contain its awesomeness as he swooned, “Thank you for giving me a reason to use Air Force One. It’s pretty nice.”
There is almost a youthful naivete that makes it OK when this president enjoys his executive toys.
My bigger grievance is with Mrs. Obama, who felt entitled to spend millions of taxpayer dollars for separate travel arrangements in order to promote her relentless “Let’s Move” initiative by performing some kind of Michael-Jackson-meets-Teen-Wolf dance.
I have no problem with “Let’s Move,” Mrs. Obama, I just have a problem with you moving on our plane, with our money.
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