Royals cost US 1.4 Billon Last Year
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Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year

Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks.

In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family.

Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that Obama isn’t the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in.

Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4 billion spent on the Obama family last year is the “total cost of the presidency,” factoring the cost of the “biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever,” a 50 percent increase in the numbers of appointed czars and an Air Force One “running with the frequency of a scheduled air line.”

“The most concerning thing, I think, is the use of taxpayer funds to actually abet his re-election,” Gray, who worked in the Eisenhower administration and for other Republican presidents, said in an interview with TheDC on Wednesday.

“The press has been so slow in picking up on this extraordinary increase in the president’s expenses,”

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(09-28-2012, 11:44 AM)Simon Peter Wrote: Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year

Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks.

In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family.

Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that Obama isn’t the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in.

Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4 billion spent on the Obama family last year is the “total cost of the presidency,” factoring the cost of the “biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever,” a 50 percent increase in the numbers of appointed czars and an Air Force One “running with the frequency of a scheduled air line.”

“The most concerning thing, I think, is the use of taxpayer funds to actually abet his re-election,” Gray, who worked in the Eisenhower administration and for other Republican presidents, said in an interview with TheDC on Wednesday.

“The press has been so slow in picking up on this extraordinary increase in the president’s expenses,”

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You complain that he's not creating jobs or contributing to economic recovery, then you complain that he's hiring people to do things and putting money into the economy.

Make up your minds!


http://www.politicususa.com/cost-obama-c...-bush.html
http://news.yahoo.com/comparison-recent-...00657.html
http://www.politicolnews.com/all-the-pre...vacations/
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/an...n-2355535/
http://politic365.com/2012/05/08/obamas-...-the-most/
http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/06...gno/150723
http://open.salon.com/blog/mpbulletin/20...ion_record

Oh. That's right. You're hoping that no-one will notice that you are completely and totally wrong.
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The peasants are revolting because the GOP keeps filibustering bills that could actually improve things.
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This peasant is voting and not whining about Obama all day long.
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