Obamas wasteful during hard times
What is the total cost of Mrs. Obama’s 20,000-mile African vacation to hobnob with national heroes like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu?
The Boeing 747 costs some $190,000 per hour to fly. Add Secret Service, numerous White House staffers, chefs, hairdressers and wardrobe managers plus daughters and grandma ad nauseam!
We are in a deep recession, unemployment 9 percent, deficit spending at obscene levels, and government debt near $15 trillion. While Nero fiddles, Rome burns, and Mr. Obama is flying another Boeing 747. Government spending is $105,000 every second, $6.3 million every minute, $380 million every hour!
Sen. Joe McCarthy was asked, “Do you have one shred of decency left in you?” I ask the Obamas that same question.
This profligate personal spending like the Obamas flying to New York for dinner, to Hawaii for golf, and taking a staff of 2,000 people to the recent London economic summit is disgraceful. How can the Obamas stand to look in their mirrors every morning?