for those vacations.Obama may have taken fewer vacations,but what is the cost verses Bush’s vacations taken at his ranch in Crawford,Tx or the family home in Maine.You can not count Camp David,that is a perk that goes with the job,but tax payer money spent on unnecessary lavish vacations is not.
iris054,the point I am trying to make is the cost not the quantity..Show me figures,then I will discuss the matter with you.
The problem is the libs love to point out all of the "vacations" Bush took, but never quite give you the full story.
True he spent a lot of those "vacation" days at Camp David. But what they don’t tell you is this is a very secure government complex, full communications and security are already installed. The only difference between Camp David and the White House is it’s in a rural setting with golf courses and other "perks". Been there, seen it, don’t know why the big fuss. Anything comes up it’s a short helicopter flight back to Washington
His trips home to Texas? Again, security is already there to protect the family, it has full communications. When he goes home it still does not require massive plane fulls of personnel and equipment.
Now lets compare to Obama. Martha’s Vinyard? Libs will tell you that Obama paid for his own vacation….this is true. He paid for the rental of the mansion…but not for the cost to fly himself and family there on Air Force1…the two planeloads of armored vehicles, the plane full of secret service agents, their pay and lodging while he vacations.
What is really telling…..he’s doing this just months after getting blasted for the costs of his past vacations to Hawaii and another to Martha’s Vinyard, another to Chicago, other wastefull trips to for the family to Spain…….you get the idea.
His chief spokesman stated “I don’t think Americans out there would begrudge the notion that the president would spend some time with his family.”
True. But us poor, middle class Americans have to settle with taking the family out to a movie (at the cost of about $100 or more)….
This president is an insult!