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‘While most of America is suffering through one the worst economic
downturns in U.S. history, the Obamas are living the high life at your
expense. During 2011, U.S. taxpayers spent an astounding 1.4 billion dollars on the
Obamas. Meanwhile, British taxpayers only spent 57.8 million dollars on
the entire royal family. Does anyone else see something wrong with this
picture? So where did the 1.4 billion dollars go? That money paid the salaries
of their staff members, it paid for their transportation and housing costs, it
paid for entertainment and vacations for the Obamas, and $102,000 was even
spent on a "dog handler" for the family dog Bo. In his new book
entitled "Presidential
Perks Gone Royal: Your Taxes Are Being Used For Obama's Re-election",
author Robert Keith Gray reveals some absolutely shocking details about the
enormous amounts of U.S. taxpayer money that are being spent on the personal
needs of the Obamas. At a time when the U.S. national debt is absolutely
exploding this kind of outrageous spending is completely and totally
inappropriate, but of course the mainstream media is not going to report on
this because they don't want to do anything to put the Obamas in a bad light
this close to the election.
Some
of the things that Robert Keith Gray has uncovered are absolutely mind
blowing. The following are a few facts from
his new book....
-Never
before has so much money been spent on a president and his family during a
single year
-The
Obamas have the "biggest
staff in history at the highest wages ever"
-While
Obama has been in office, Air Force One has been "running
with the frequency of a scheduled air line"
-Obama
has 469 senior staff working under him, and 226
of them make more than $100,000 a year
-There
is always at least one projectionist at the White House 24 hours a day just in
case there is someone that wants to watch a movie.
-The
"dog handler" for the family dog Bo reportedly makes $102,000
per year and sometimes he is even flown to where the family is vacationing so
that he can care for the dog
Are
you outraged yet?
When
the Obamas are at the White House the expenses are outrageous, but the expenses
really kick in to a whole new level when the Obamas go on vacation.
And
the Obamas sure do love to go on vacation.
Over
one recent 12 month period, Michelle Obama spent 42 days on vacation (and that
does not even count Saturdays and Sundays). The following is an excerpt
from a
Daily Mail article about the legendary Obama vacations....
The First Lady is believed to have
taken 42 days of holiday in the past year, including a $375,000 break in Spain
and a four-day ski trip to Vail, Colorado, where she spent $2,000 a night on a
suite at the Sebastian hotel.
And the first family's nine-day stay in
Martha's Vineyard is also proving costly, with rental of the Blue Heron Farm
property alone costing an estimated $50,000 a week.
The source continued: 'Michelle also
enjoys drinking expensive booze during her trips. She favours martinis with
top-shelf vodka and has a taste for rich sparking wines.
'The vacations are totally Michelle's
idea. She's like a junkie. She can't schedule enough getaways, and she lives
from one to the next - all the while sticking it to hardworking Americans.'
As I wrote about the
other day, many Americans are working so hard just to survive in this
economy that they don't ever get to take any vacations at all.
But it doesn't seem to trouble the
Obamas that many of their vacation trips cost more than many American workers
will make in an entire decade....
The following is from a recent Newsmax
article....
A trip to Spain in 2010 by Michelle
Obama, family, and staff cost taxpayers $467,585 and a trip by the First Lady
and family to South Africa and Botswana last year cost $424,142 for the flight
and crew alone, according to Judicial Watch.
Yes, when the family of the president
travels it is going to be expensive, but this is ridiculous.
It can even be insanely expensive for
the Obamas to take a vacation even if they don't leave the country.
For example, in 2010 an Obama family
vacation to Hawaii ended up costing U.S. taxpayers more
than a million dollars.
So how much is too much?
It has been reported that Michelle
Obama spent over
10 million dollars of U.S. taxpayer money on vacations during just one
recent 12 month period alone.
At a time when there are 46 million
Americans on food stamps is this an appropriate amount of U.S. taxpayer money
to spend on vacationing?
It seems that Barack Obama does not
have his priorities in order.
Barack Obama may not have time to meet
with important world leaders such
as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but he sure always seems to
find time to play golf. In fact, since he has been in the White House
Obama has played more
than 100 rounds of golf.
A lot of hard working American men have
not played that many rounds of golf in their entire lifetimes.
Sadly, the Obamas are not the only ones
that are blowing U.S. taxpayer money as if there is no tomorrow.
In a previous article, I detailed how
the U.S. Congress is also living the high life at your expense. The following are
a few facts from that article....
-In 2010, the federal government spent $33,387
on the hair care needs of U.S. Senators.
-In 2010, U.S. Senators pulled $72,370
out of the "Senate Restaurant Fund".
-In 2010, U.S. Senators took $166,673
out of something called the "Senate Gift Shop Revolving Fund".
-In 2010, an average of $4,005,900
of U.S. taxpayer money was spent on "personal" and "office"
expenses per Senator.
-Insider trading is
100% legal for members of Congress, and they refuse to pass a law that
would change that.
So why don't these politicians get
voted out?
Well, the truth is that both political
parties are deeply corrupt, and both parties have learned that they can buy
votes by promising lots of free stuff and
benefits to the voters.
I have written previously about how the
U.S. government gives out free
cell phones and free cell phone minutes each month to welfare recipients.
In the
video posted below, a protester outside of a Romney campaign event explains
that one of the main reasons why she is going to vote for Obama is because he
gave her a free cell phone....
Meanwhile,
our national debt is growing out of control and the middle class is being absolutely crushed by
taxes, regulations and the declining economy that Obama is overseeing.
According to one recent survey, 55
percent of all small business owners in America "say they would not
start a business today given what they know now and in the current
environment."
The economy is completely and totally falling apart, and yet the
Obamas are partying as if it was 1999. Their attitude seems to be
"let them eat cake".
So what do you think about the crazy
amount of money that is being spent on the Obamas every year? Please feel
free to post a comment with your thoughts below....
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government? Well, at this point the federal government in spending more
time and money on redistributing wealth than it is on anything else. In
fiscal year 2012, 62 percent of the federal budget will be
spent on entitlements. How much farther do we have to go until everyone
finally admits that we have become a socialist nation? Our government has
become the largest engine of wealth redistribution in the history of the world,
and the redistribution of wealth has greatly accelerated during the presidency
of Barack Obama. Yes, wealth redistribution as a share of the economy also
grew under George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, but Barack Obama has taken things
to an entirely new level. Back when Ronald Reagan took office, less than
30 percent of all Americans lived in a home where at least one person was
receiving government benefits. Today, an all-time record 49 percent of
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every time you have your friends come over to watch football? Could you
imagine having the government authorities take you to court over a Friday night
card game? Well, down in Venice, Florida authorities are cracking down on
Shane and Marlen Roessiger for holding a Bible study in their home on Friday
nights. The meetings consist of at most 10 people gathering for a
time of prayer and Bible study, but authorities in Venice insist that this is a
"zoning violation" and Shane and Marlen Roessiger are being
threatened with a fine of $250 per meeting. Sadly, this is not the first
time something like this has happened. The truth is that authorities all
over America are seeking to suppress home Bible studies and other expressions
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24 year old age bracket are living at home. But many of them are still in
school, so that is to be expected to a certain extent. What is even more
frightening is that one survey found that 85 percent of all college seniors plan
on moving back in with Mommy and Daddy after graduation. But isn't
college supposed to be about getting the skills and education that you need so
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anything we have ever seen in modern times is coming. Crippling drought
and bizarre weather patterns have damaged food production all over the world
this summer, and the UN and the World Bank have both issued ominous warnings
about the food inflation that is coming. To those of us in the western
world, a rise in the price of food can be a major inconvenience, but in the
developing world it can mean the difference between life and death. Just
remember what happened back in 2008. When food prices hit record highs it
led to food riots in 28 different countries. Today, there are
approximately 2 billion people that are malnourished around the globe.
Even rumors of food shortages are enough to spark mass chaos in many areas of
the planet. When people fear that they are not going to be able to feed
their families they tend to get very desperate. That is why a recent CNN
article declared that "2013 will
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unfold right in front of our eyes. (Read More....)
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kids? If you spend much time with them, you quickly realize that the next
generation of Americans is woefully unprepared to deal with the real
world. They are overweight, lazy, undisciplined, disrespectful,
disobedient to their parents, selfish, self-centered, and completely addicted
to entertainment. And that is just for starters. We feed them insane
amounts of sugar and high fructose corn syrup and then when they become
overactive we pump them full of prescription drugs to calm them down.
Instead of raising our children ourselves, we allow the government schools and
the entertainment industry to do it. By the time they reach the age of
18, they have spent far more time with their teachers, their video games and
the television than they have spent with us. Our young people are #1 in a
lot of global categories, but almost all of them are bad. Young people in
the United States are more obese than anyone else in the world, more sexually
active than anyone else in the world and they become pregnant more often than
anyone else in the world. Of course it probably doesn't help that we have
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significant reduction in pay. Millions of Americans felt that serving
their country and making a difference more than made up for the reduced wages
that they would receive. Unfortunately, those days are long gone.
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paying job with tons of benefits. It is incredibly hard to be fired from
a federal job, and if you stick around long enough you will be guaranteed a
huge pension for the rest of your life. The laziness at some federal
agencies is absolutely legendary. Trust me, I used to work in Washington D.C.
and I have seen the mindset firsthand. Some federal buildings are
absolute ghost towns at 5:01 PM. Hordes of federal workers are just
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and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world. The rest of
the globe looked at us in envy and wondered what we were doing right. But
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our jobs have been shipped out of the country and competition for the remaining
jobs is keeping wages at depressed levels. Meanwhile, the cost of living
just keeps going up and up and middle class budgets are being stretched and
strained like never before. Millions more Americans fall out of the
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at an all-time high. Finding a solution to the decline of the middle
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