(Found at Boortz)
I was just sitting here pondering this story when it hit me why I haven't been blogging... Jugear's Big Adventure. I am so fucking sick and tired of seeing that sumbitch's face I could scream. Everyday, I say to myself as I turn on the intertoobs, "What will The H.N.I.C. and his D.C. Clown Show fuck up/steal today??"
Turns out, they swiped our credit card and First Klingon, M'Chelle and her whelps took an all expenses paid (by you and me - ed.) week long vacation in Paris and London. And after the little shit storm that blew up over that $350K tour of NYFC on AF1, they aren't even gonna tell us how much this cost us.
(CNSNews.com) – America may be in the midst of a deep recession, and the nation may be facing unprecedented deficit spending and debt, but the White House will not reveal the cost to taxpayers of the European vacation that first lady Michelle Obama and the president’s two daughters, Malia and Sasha, took last month.
There's some more of that "Transparency" they were talking about. Definitely "change" too. I don't remember any First Ladies* flying off to Paris, JUST for vacation, on OUR DIME, especially when some states are facing double digit unemployment thanks to their husband's and their party's dipshit socialist policies!!
( *DISCLAIMER: I do not include M'Chelle in the list of First Ladies. By default, the job title calls for a "Lady". Any references to M'Chelle as "First Lady" are from the quoted article and are products of the author's PC delusions..)
Now, let's pretend that I have no idea what it takes to transport V.I.P.'s around and I ask a reporter...
Travel by an American first lady typically includes the military passenger jet that carries her and the children, Secret Service personnel to provide security, and a separate cargo plane to haul official vehicles.
First Lady Michelle Obama’s tour of Paris with her children included a convoy of 20 vehicles, according to news reports. She also moved by “motorcade” through London.
The full cost of such a trip would also include the expense of meals and lodging for Secret Service agents and possibly other staff.
Just the payroll for pulling this off would set me up for retirement. And can you imagine the mini-bar tab for The First Klingon's detail...
Agent Smith - "GODDAMMIT!! That's the last fucking time!!!"
Agent Jones - "For what??"
Agent Smith - "I swear to Christ, if that Wookie bitch tells me one more time to jump off the side rail of the limo and get her some fuckin' chicken from a street side stand..."
Agent Jones - "OK.. OK.. calm down. Remember when you were asking why we call the F.N.G. "Chicken Fucker"?? Where do you think "baby got back"?? A bucket of chicken is easy... Ask Washington over there about learning how to juggle when you get promoted to "Melon Man". Come over here and fix yourself a drink..."
I know that The Secret Service are professionals who don't let personal feelings or politics stand in the way of completing the mission, the safety of their charges, but ya gotta wonder about some of the off duty conversations...
In response to inquiries from CNSNews.com last week about the cost to taxpayers of the first lady’s European vacation, the White House did not provide a figure.
“Like previous administrations, the first lady will follow all the rules and regulations that are related to reimbursement for personal travel,” Michelle Obama’s press secretary Katie McCormick Lelyveld told CNSNews.com in a written response.
Though White House rules for vacations, or unofficial travel, requires reimbursing the government the equivalent to the cost of what a commercial flight would have been, such a reimbursement would amount to only a fraction of the total cost of the first lady’s European trip.
So we get paid back for the costs of three First Class tickets?? Oh, well, it's all good then. But when the bill comes due next month, we get to pick up the tab for the hundreds of people who made this thing work, the machines and the fuel they used ferrying this racist, elitist, "All for me and none for thee, Honkey!" hump-butt bitch on a vacation?? Have I got that right??
White House Military Office estimates from fiscal year 1998 that said the first lady’s passenger plane costs between $2,958 per hour to operate, while the Air Force estimates it to cost about to $10,789 per hour.
Using these 1998 figures, the costs break down like this:
Washington to Paris - $22,185 to $80,917
Paris to London - $1,952.88 to $7,120
London to Washington - $20,706 to $75,523
Now lemme see... (*whips out cypherin' paper.. mumbling.. carry the two... mumble, Shit! erase that..., naught from naught leaves naught... mumbling... divide by zero..)
Total projected cost in 1998 dollars just to fly M'Chelle and Thing 1 and Thing 2 on vacation -
$44,843.28 to $163,560.50...
Inflation adjusted for 2009 dollars...
$58,834.02 to $214,591.38
What was it Jugears Hussein al-Chicago said about farting around on jets when times are tough???
In late November 2008, after reports that executives of the financially troubled auto companies had been using private jets, then-President-Elect Obama said, "I thought maybe they're a little tone-deaf to what's happening in America right now."
