Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Obamas' Cost of Living in the White House: $1.4 Billion a Year

 

As Carol touched on yesterday, while the White House keeps its doors closed to the people under the guise of "devastating sequestration," First Lady Michelle Obama is preparing for her glitzy 50th birthday party with performances by Adele and Beyonce. Although the party is being touted as private and therefore paid for by the Obamas, taxpayers will still have to foot the bill for secret service and other accommodations at the White House for the event. Meanwhile, President Obama just held a fancy dinner for Republicans just six blocks away from the White House and of course he took his massive motorcade to get there.

Charles Cooke over at NRO has tallied up the total for the Obamas' cost of living in the White House: $1.4 billion per year.

The executive mansion is not in that much trouble, of course. It’s certainly not in sufficiently dire straits for Air Force One ($181,757 per hour) to be grounded, or to see the executive chef ($100,000 per year) furloughed, or to cut back on the hours of the three full-time White House calligraphers ($277,050 per year for the trio), or to limit the invaluable work of the chief of staff to the president’s dog ($102,000 per year), or to trim his ridiculous motorcade ($2.2 million). If Ellen DeGeneres wants another dancercize session or Spain holds another clothing sale, the first family will be there before you can say “citizen executive.” Fear ye not, serfs: Austerity may be the word of the week, but the president is by no means in any danger of being forced to live like the president of a republic instead of like a king.

More @ Townhall

6 comments:

  1. Funny shit.They want you to commit first.Stand your ground.No sense.

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  2. USC, Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5. All of your beloved congressmen, including the oh-so-constitutional Ron Paul, let it happen along with nearly every citizen of this nation.

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    1. Let sequestration happen?

      If so, hell yes and that was but a pittance. The government should be cut in half for starters.

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  3. No Mr. T....they let soetoro-obama violate Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the US Constitution. Which states one must be natural born to be POTUS. soetoro-obama is not. He is a fake, a fraud a usurper. It matters not what he does for if our legislators, SCOTUS, and the people had demanded compliance with the Constitution soetoro-obama would not be POTUS.

    I was trying to get you and others to read the Constitution. So much for that.

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    1. I fully agree with your first statement, but your wise ass ending statement was uncalled for.

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