...And they puzzle over the debt..

[ironglow]

  This journalist offers some "food for thought";

   
    This is from Mark Knoller of CBS:

The pilots and crew of Air Force One are flying more hours than a rookie on a beer run. They are tired of it too, and are adding more crew to Air Force-1 - I know this for a fact because I'm one of the instructors that trains the crews. Our company ( Atlas Air) has had the Air Force-1 and E-4 contract for over two years and I've been doing it for about 8 months now.


Last year (2010) Obama flew in Air Force One 172 times, almost every other day.


White House officials have been telling reporters in recent days that the Democrat doesn't intend to hang around the White House quite so much in 2011.  They explain he wants to get out more around the country because, as everyone knows, that midterm election shellacking on Nov. 2 had nothing to do with his health care bill, over-spending or other policies, and everything to do with Obama's not adequately explaining himself to his countrymen and women.


And with only 673 days remaining in Obama's never ending presidential campaign, the incumbent's travel pace will not likely slacken.


A t an Air Force-estimated cost of $181,757 per flight HOUR (not to mention the additional travel costs of Marine One, Secret Service, logistics and local police overtime), that's a lot of frequent flier dollars going into Obama's carbon footprint. $80 Million every time it lands & takes off.


We are privy to some of these numbers thanks to CBS' Mark Knoller, a bearded national treasure trove of presidential stats.   According to Knoller's copious notes, during the last year, Obama made 65 domestic trips over 104 days, and six trips to eight countries over 22 days.  Not counting six vacation trips over 32 days.


He took 196 helicopter trips, signed 203 pieces of legislation and squeezed in 29 rounds of left-handed golf.


Obama last year gave 491 speeches, remarks or statements.  That's more talking than goes on in some entire families, at least from fatherly mouths.


In fact, even including the 24 days of 2010 that we never saw Obama in public; his speaking works out to about one official utterance every 11 waking hours.   Aides indicate the "real good talker" believes we need more.


Related:  Obama spends nearly half his presidency outside Washington , plans to travel more


Related:  Vacationer-in-Chief Spends $1.75 Million to Visit Hawaiian Chums


Obama has spent over $100 million taxpayer dollars flying around in Air
Force One, and probably another $100 million on his entourage.  Obama is just another tin-pot dictator living lavishly at the expense of his subjects.


And we seniors have to "tighten our belts" because we aren't getting a COL A again this year... and none last year!

THANKS TO A LL WHO HELPED PUT THIS GREEDY PHONY IN OFFICE!! 
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    ...And the politicians in DC..sit areound, wondering where they can cut spending !

[DDZ]

Now Michelle is planning her next trip to Africa with the kids and her Mom. She says its to engage the young people. I bet that trip will be worth every cent to the tax payers. While most of the tax payers have to tighten their belt the Obama's fly around the world to appease themselves, spending millions like there is an endless pile of money.
Then we have to listen to some of our clueless congressmen and senators say things like, "If everyone would just give a little more we could reduce our debt."
Liberals biggest problem is that they can never admit that they are wrong when it comes to spending and social programs. They think that they just haven't done enough yet. Their mentality is, "We can fix it just give us more money."

[GUNNUT in Iowa]

  This journalist offers some "food for thought";

   
    This is from Mark Knoller of CBS:

The pilots and crew of Air Force One are flying more hours than a rookie on a beer run. They are tired of it too, and are adding more crew to Air Force-1 - I know this for a fact because I'm one of the instructors that trains the crews. Our company ( Atlas Air) has had the Air Force-1 and E-4 contract for over two years and I've been doing it for about 8 months now.


Last year (2010) Obama flew in Air Force One 172 times, almost every other day.


White House officials have been telling reporters in recent days that the Democrat doesn't intend to hang around the White House quite so much in 2011.  They explain he wants to get out more around the country because, as everyone knows, that midterm election shellacking on Nov. 2 had nothing to do with his health care bill, over-spending or other policies, and everything to do with Obama's not adequately explaining himself to his countrymen and women.


And with only 673 days remaining in Obama's never ending presidential campaign, the incumbent's travel pace will not likely slacken.


A t an Air Force-estimated cost of $181,757 per flight HOUR (not to mention the additional travel costs of Marine One, Secret Service, logistics and local police overtime), that's a lot of frequent flier dollars going into Obama's carbon footprint. $80 Million every time it lands & takes off.


We are privy to some of these numbers thanks to CBS' Mark Knoller, a bearded national treasure trove of presidential stats.   According to Knoller's copious notes, during the last year, Obama made 65 domestic trips over 104 days, and six trips to eight countries over 22 days.  Not counting six vacation trips over 32 days.


He took 196 helicopter trips, signed 203 pieces of legislation and squeezed in 29 rounds of left-handed golf.


Obama last year gave 491 speeches, remarks or statements.  That's more talking than goes on in some entire families, at least from fatherly mouths.


In fact, even including the 24 days of 2010 that we never saw Obama in public; his speaking works out to about one official utterance every 11 waking hours.   Aides indicate the "real good talker" believes we need more.


Related:  Obama spends nearly half his presidency outside Washington , plans to travel more


Related:  Vacationer-in-Chief Spends $1.75 Million to Visit Hawaiian Chums


Obama has spent over $100 million taxpayer dollars flying around in Air
Force One, and probably another $100 million on his entourage.  Obama is just another tin-pot dictator living lavishly at the expense of his subjects.


And we seniors have to "tighten our belts" because we aren't getting a COL A again this year... and none last year!

THANKS TO A LL WHO HELPED PUT THIS GREEDY PHONY IN OFFICE!! 
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    ...And the politicians in DC..sit areound, wondering where they can cut spending !

Numbers don't compute.  (Not saying I disagree with the concept of the article, just don't make it so easy to shoot holes in it.)

[magooch]

Even if the dollar numbers don't jibe, it sounds like to me that Congress needs to live up to their responsibility and clamp down on the spending.  It's not that I want Obama to stick around D.C.; that can't help things at all.  But this guy has brought this outrageous type of spending to a head and it's long past due that the President and his entire administration be put on a budget.  The same goes for Congress itself.

[ironglow]

  Right you are, Gunnut..  I didn't write the article, I just happened to pick it up.
  It looks like this Mark Knoller just got his basic figures a bit skewed.  A figure of $ 80,000 per flight might come closer, perhaps he just juggled his zeros.
   In any case, there are many ways they could start to trim the budget...  It was just on the news this morning that the prez has diddled around at 73 golf games since he took office...many of which he flew to.
   It appears they are all very handy at wasting money, If Boehner wants to "talk business"..they ought to get with it and confer in an office in the capitol building..and forget the golf.  Our sinking economy has gone far past the "game" stage in the last 2 years.