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He gets his Christmas Vacation again!!
While most Americans are working thru Christmas and New Years to feed their families and pay their rent.
Or pay for their health.
And along with the state this country is in!!
No way would my conscious let me do that.
His wife , and himself should be doing something along the lines of a public servants.
That's what they are, all politicians.
Maybe at the food shelf or ???
President Barack Obama and his family are scheduled to spend their seventh straight Christmas in Hawaii, according to the White House.
The first family will leave Washington on Dec. 19 for Honolulu on the island of Oahu, according to the White House press office. In the past, the family has stayed on the east side of the island in the upscale town of Kailua, about 45 minutes from tourist-heavy Waikiki. They've stayed in the same $3,500-a-day, beachside rental home for the past three years.
The Obamas have a fairly predictable Hawaii itinerary by now, featuring golf, shave ice, snorkeling trips to Hanauma Bay and dinners out at Alan Wong's.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) told The New York Times that the annual trip is a sanctuary for the president, who spent most of his childhood in Hawaii. “One of the reasons that the president, I think, likes it here is that he can have a sense of normalcy, even within his security bubble,” Schatz said last year. “He can still feel, perhaps, like he did when he was a teenager, just for a few moments at a time.”
Last year, the only holiday surprise from the Obama family came when the president and his daughters returned to D.C. after two weeks, and Michelle Obama stayed in Hawaii. At her husband's suggestion, the first lady went to Maui ahead of her 50th birthday to spend time on Oprah Winfrey's 17-acre estate.
i have a general problem with the expense of presidential travel (among other things like the $1+ million budget for each congressman and the $4 million+ budget for senators). i think we need to set certain rules in stone in advance to limit the travel of the president whether it be fore personal or business travel. the reality is that our president doesnt really need to travel around the world for face to face meetings. he is just going to have to accept limits on vacations to pre-determined domestic stops or pre-determined budget limits.
Wahhh.. Who honestly cares. It is the holidays and the first family wants to spend it in Hawaii. So what. Pretty much every politician will be going somewhere or taking time off for the holidays. This isn't anything new and never will be anything new.
To the OP, so you think that all politicians should never get a vacation and if they have time off, they should spend it in a soup kitchen?
IMO the costs of the presidency needs to be paired down a bit. The president should be required to reimburse the nation for use of official resources for personal reasons. The British Royal Family, prime minister, etc are only allowed to use Royal Air Force transport jets for OFFICIAL BUSINESS.
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Barack Obama and his family cost the taxpayer $1.4billion per year, according to a recently published book.
By contrast, the British Royal Family costs less than $60million each year.
Couldn't care less. Hopefully they'll build the presidential library there, too.
If you want to find something positive in this the island does have active volcanoes, is vulnerable to tsunamis, and itself occasionally experiences 6.5+ earthquakes...
To answer some questions some of you had.
This why I made the thread.
This is why I do not like it. Mobile Site Preview
Obama vacation to Hawaii, Africa cost taxpayers nearly $16 million http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...ly-16-million/
Obama trips to Hawaii, Africa reportedly cost taxpayers nearly $16 million
By Malia Zimmerman
Published March 27, 2014
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U.S. taxpayers spent nearly $16 million to fly the Obamas to, from and around Hawaii and Africa, Air Force records obtained by Judicial Watch show.
"The Obama family 2013-2014 vacation to Honolulu cost $210,877 per hour for travel alone; at 36.9 total hours, the cost to taxpayers for the vacation's flight expense was $7,781,361.30," Judicial Watch said in a statement, noting an increase of $3,695,006.10 from flight expenses for the Obamas' 2012-13 Hawaii Christmas vacation.
Wahhh.. Who honestly cares. It is the holidays and the first family wants to spend it in Hawaii. So what. Pretty much every politician will be going somewhere or taking time off for the holidays. This isn't anything new and never will be anything new.
To the OP, so you think that all politicians should never get a vacation and if they have time off, they should spend it in a soup kitchen?
"Never get one, "that question is to the extreme.
Sure, take some family time for Christmas.
But, the extravaganza and cost to taxpayers, Nope!!!!
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