Today, we can all agree, our country is currently in an economic hole.
For a wide variety of reasons we are facing very difficult decisions ahead.
After senselessly wasting trillions of our hard earned money and having nothing to show for it beyond an increased debt load, Mr. Obama recently claimed that he was going to focus on debt and deficit reduction.
If that is true, then why, oh why Mr. President are you leaving on a trip which will cost us $200 million per day?
Mumbai: The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs. 900 crore approx) per day on President Barack Obama’s visit to the city.
“The huge amount of around $200 million would be spent on security, stay and other aspects of the Presidential visit,” a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit said.
About 3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and journalists would accompany the President. Several officials from the White House and US security agencies are already here for the past one week with helicopters, a ship and high-end security instruments.
$200 million per day?
Dozens of aircraft? Hundreds of hotel rooms? Three thousand plus in the traveling entourage? Multiple Marine One helicopters which must be taken apart, flown over to India, and then reassembled?
Mr. President, please allow me to speak for a large portion of the American people for just a moment.
Have you no shame sir? Just stay home.
We work hard for the dollars that you, and your Congress, are frittering away so carelessly and cavalierly.
We the People provide you with some pretty fancy living arrangements there at 1600. You should just stay home.
Stay home and work on what is important.
Better yet, stay home, go play some golf, and save us $200 million per day in the process.
If there’s something really important that you need to discuss with the folks in India, pick up the phone and call them.
And yet, ladies and gentlemen, I think we are happy too early, because, in my view, these elections were not for Republicans, but rather against Obama and his socialism. (Oh how I hate Socialism!)
Now specifically should think about 2012, who Republicans have a real candidate for president?
Palin?
I think not, then who?
Mitch Daniels, Herman Cain, Haley Barbour, Senator DeMint, Rep. Paul Ryan, look around, there are plenty in the stable worthy of a run.
Thank you.
Isn’t Michelle worth it tho?
The Audacity of Hubris.
Michelle’s a Democrat.
can’t wait to get this fool out of the wh. he is evil and i pray that the new congress will hold his diabolical agenda at bay. we also need to get rid of valerie jerret, axelrod, janet apoliantasp? and the rest of evil empire.
thank you fellow americans for making my day! we owe this to our Lord and savior, he has given us another chance.
But on a phone call you dont have hundreds of people waiting on and catering to your every whim while your wife snaps pics for the photo album. He knows he is going to be a one term pseudo Jimmy Carter so he is going to run the tab up till he his forced from the office. He feels he is owed all this.
OF COURSE he has no shame. No leftist has any shame. Otherwise they couldn’t BE leftists!!!!
For a look at how dumb the Indian people think Obama is look at this:
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/obama-and-his-trusted-aide-to-make-their-indian-debut/134305-3.html
President Obama’s visit to India next week will be his first appearance in the Indian Parliament and he’ll be making his debut with his most trusted friend Mr Teleprompter.
November 8th 2010, central hall of Parliament, more than 780 members of our Parliament will see what they have never seen before.
US President Barack Obama’s old and trusted pal, Mr Teleprompter.
Mr TP is always by his side through thick and through thin.
It makes him angry, it makes him laugh, even massage his neck and he gets very upset if it ever takes a break.
Sometimes the pressure gets too much.
But it does with his battery what officials can’t, make him look good.
And we ask isn’t it time for our great leaders to take a cue and go the Obama way?
As Obama comes calling to woo India — he will take no chances and make no mistakes. With a billion eyes on him you can’t blame him if he turns to his trusted aide.
The photos are precious!
Missy #2 Predict Sen John Thune of South Dakota will be Repub. PRES nominee in 2012.
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@Skookum:
I think Mike may be thinking of Michelle Bachmann and yes, she is worthy, they tried to Palinize her, but she’s still standing. Did you know she asked Chris Matthews “hows that leg tingle tonight?”
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/11/michele-bachman-to-chris-matthews-hows-that-leg-tingle-tonight/
MSNBC….unhinged…..again…..and again:
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/11/msnbc-staff-2012-gop-candidates-are-nothing-nobody-can-beat-obama-not-even-fat-boy-christie-video/
I was just being a wise-arse. MB is one of my favorites! I laughed out loud when she cleaned Mathew’s plow and handed him his head.
Such an example of unbiased news reporting. Long live Fox News!
SKOOKS FOX NEWS unbiased. There you go being a wise-arse again.
@rich wheeler:
There you go again Rich.
Making those unfounded, unsupportable accusations.
I was really hoping that some of the leftist “deficit hawks” would have something to say about the gross waste of taxpayer dollars that is going to happen regarding this trip.
Tom, cRAP, Rich, Greg, Larry, B-Rob, Fit fit…. Anyone?
Bueller? Bueller?
Nothing to say about Obie wasting our tax dollars by the hundreds of millions?
Nothing at all?
Whadda matter guys….cat got your tongue?
Or…is it simply more comfortable for you to be consistently inconsistent?
does anyone here ever attempt to fact check anything ? Or is everyone willing to just get sucked into whatever an unnamed “top official” in India says about the costs ? The daily cost of operating am entire carrier strike group is only 1 million per day. So 3000 people would accompany the POTUS ? when you divide 3000 into $200,000,000 that works out to costing almost 70,000 dollars per day per person.Gee does that seem a bit HIGH to anyone else ??? Especially since a huge proportion of those 3000 will be local Indian police and Army personnel? And remember I graduated in the top 90% (bottom 10% of my high school class. Surely some of the more learned posters here should have been able to see that the maths was all wrong here On Oct 31st that same paper cited the total cost to be “hundreds of thousands of pounds” per day “But the extent of the trip to India – which could run up a bill of hundreds of thousands of pounds – is unlikely to win over hard-up swing voters in the US.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1325075/Obama-India-visit-Biggest-US-President-40-planes-6-armoured-cars.html?ITO=1490
But all in all a big thanks for this amusing post. KEEP UP THE BAD WORK !!!
A.C. Nice to hear from you.No response to my right-on House and Senate predictions?
Fox news biased or unbiased is a matter of opinion.We’ve beaten that horse to death.
Agree with J.R. re India blog. RJW
@John ryan:
Poor Jr…wallowing ’round down there in the bottom 10% of his class.
Your source states that the trip could “run up a bill of hundreds of thousands of pounds” agrees with the source I cited.
Got anything at all to indicate that the $200 million per day number is wrong?
No? Didn’t think so.
Thanks for playing though.
@rich wheeler:
What’s to say about the predictions? Some of us came out closer than others.
Where’s your opinion regarding the waste of millions of taxpayer dollars on yet another global escapade?
You guys on the left like to wail and caterwaul about gov’t spending, debt, deficits, etc when it suits you.
Just testing your consistency.
Oh, by the way, Jr’s source doesn’t contradict mine.
@John ryan:
Here’s another source on the $200 million Jr.
Remarkably, it’s the same source you used.
Dayum! I hate it when that happens.
a.c Exchange rate is 1.61-1 How can hundreds of thousands of pounds per day relate to 200 million dollars per day.Not even close.What’s the truth.
India,largest Democracy in the world and one of our closest allies in a region we can use all the friends we can get.
Thanks(I think) for the backhanded complement re my political picks.Interested in who did better overall.
And how about that carbon footprint the “greenest” President evah! is leaving
‘Greenest President Ever’ trip to India has a carbon footprint bigger than the citizens of many US cities
I can’t shake this feeling that he’s fleeing, with 3,000 people, for a reason that we have yet to discern. A very bad one. Watch for something drastic to “happen” while he and his retinue are “gone to the mattresses.”
@Taqiyyotomist:
You know, it’s odd that you should say that.
A few months ago I said to my wife “I have a funny feeling that Obama will be the first US president to flee the country.”
I had been saying the same hing for a while now.Look at all the money ,where did it really go? Look at all the money he given to other countries who hate America.Now he is giving 531 million to Palitins (spelled wrong) Why? Look at the grid shut down last week..Is this pratice to disarm us ? What about what he said”He will not attack back if America is attack” What about all who is in his cabinet ? Wha about our boarders ?Is he leaving it open for who to come in really who?Jihads-Talibans-Brotherhoods ???? What about the name calling of the people of America. What about him saying Iran isn;t a threat…. Hello..Who all is really leaving out of here with that many palnes ? WHO ? tAKE COVER AND BEGAN TO PROTECT YOURSELVES.tHE FRAUD IS PLANNING
$200 million a day WHERE IS THE MEDIA? LET ME GUESS……………….
$200 million a day.
In the era of Obama, mind-boggling spending is unfortunately, no longer mind-boggling. But this is extreme, even by Obama standards.
The cost of Obama’s trip to Mumbai is going to be $200 million, per day!
That is not $200 million for the trip. That is $200 million a day. He is going to have 40 Air Force aircraft, including both 747 aircraft that we typically know as Air Force One. Other aircraft are support aircraft needed to fly in three Marine helicopters (Marine One) for the President. There will be six limousines, plus presumably other vehicles for the Secret Service detail. According to press reports, there will be a party of three hundred with him. Some reports simply call them friends of his, in which case, the actual entourage would be much larger as that would not include the President’s support staff, First Lady’s support staff, etc.
While million of Americans are out of work, he is going to get an all expense paid trip, with his family to the Taj Mahal. I am sure there are a lot of Americans who would like to see that wonder too. The difference is, we have to pay for it.
Speaking of paying for it, the Christmas season is approaching. Obama has famously said he does not buy his children Christmas presents. There are a lot of Americans who would like to buy their children Christmas presents this year, but will not be able to because they are out of work. Yet Obama can blow almost a billion dollars on a junket. A billion dollars of taxpayers’ money.
Oh, and while in India, Michelle is going to meet with commercial sex workers. She could do that in Washington. Come to think of it, can anyone tell curious Americans what it is about this trip that is so special? Is there anything about this trip that could not be accomplished by the American ambassador to India? Or something that could not be accomplished by a phone call?
Of course, Obama wants to act like an emperor. He does not care what the cost is, as long as he gets to spend money.
Perhaps he will be tuning into the election results tonight. He should, since the American people telling him what they think tonight.
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STICKING IT TO THE TAXPAYERS….PICK UP THE DARN PHONE OBAMA!!!!!!!!!HE NEEDS TO BE TRIED FOR TREASON,HURTING OUR COUNTRY MORE AND MORE BY THE MINUTE..PEOPLE OUT OF WORK,PEOPLE LOSEING AND HAVE LOST THIER HOMES.BUT YET THIS FRAUD GOES FOR 2 MILLION A DAY..OH SURE FRAUD YOU FEEL THE PAIN OF THE AMERICA PEOPLE…LOW LIFE FRAUD IN THE U.S.A
RE: Oklahoma bans stonings, amputations for theft, death for apostates, Muslims cry “Islamophobia”
Oklahoma bans stonings, amputations for theft, death for apostates, Muslims cry “Islamophobia”
Oklahoma bans Sharia, Muslims plan lawsuit. Will Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani be available to testify?
“Voters ban judges from using international law,” from Associated Press, November 2:
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Oklahoma voters have approved a measure that would forbid judges from considering international law or Islamic law when deciding cases.Republican Rex Duncan, the sponsor of the measure, called it a “pre-emptive strike” designed to close the door on activist judges “legislating from the bench or using international law or Sharia law.”
Members of the Muslim community called the question an attack on Islam and some of them said they are prepared to file a lawsuit challenging the measure
The “Power of the Gavel” changes in Washington
Largely unnoticed amid last night’s story of the Republicans winning back the U.S. House and making significant gains in the Senate was the Oklahoma vote on State Question 755.
SQ 755 was a state constitutional amendment that will prohibit Oklahoma courts from using sharia law in deciding cases. It passed overwhelmingly last night with 70% support!
But this outcome was by no means a foregone conclusion. On October 7th, a poll was released with these results on SQ 755: 45% in favor, 25% opposed, 30% undecided.
Two major newspapers editorialized against it. The CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) affiliate in Oklahoma spoke out repeatedly against it in the media with its shop-worn “Islamophobia” propaganda.
We here at ACT! for America surmised that the high undecided percentage reflected voter misunderstanding of the issue AND confusion as to which way to vote on the initiative. And when voters are confused on a ballot initiative like this, they tend to either not vote on it or vote against it.
On October 18th ACT! for America launched a two-week statewide radio ad in support of SQ 755. Then, on October 21st, 26th, and November 1st we dropped a total of 600,000 automated calls to Oklahoma voters with a message urging support of SQ 755 from James Woolsey, former director of the CIA.
Additionally, we placed an editorial in one of the state’s major newspapers, sent multiple emails to our members, and conducted several radio and print media interviews.
The 70% support demonstrates that our efforts to educate the voters and clear up any confusion were immensely successful.
This 70% victory was significant because this was the first time voters had a chance to vote in a statewide election on the issue of sharia law. The overwhelming margin sends an unequivocal message to Islamic organizations and Muslims, such as Ground Zero Mosque Imam Rauf, who advocate sharia law for America—sharia law is not welcome here!
As for the other election results, from the ACT! for America perspective the most important consequence is that “the power of the gavel” will switch in the U.S. House of Representatives.
By this I mean key committees, such as the Homeland Security Committee, will likely be chaired by Members of Congress who truly understand the threat radical Islam poses to our national security and who will have a different list of priorities regarding what bills to consider and hearings to hold.
The legislative calendar, controlled by the Speaker of the House, will also reflect different priorities regarding what bills to bring to a vote before the full House.
This is a MAJOR step forward in our legislative efforts on Capitol Hill. Bills we supported this year that didn’t even get a committee hearing will receive the serious and thoughtful consideration they deserve. Prospects for House passage during the next two years of some of our legislative priorities have improved dramatically as a result of last night’s election results.
Without question, most voters were making their decisions based on concerns about the economy, jobs, federal spending and ballooning deficits, and what became known as “ObamaCare.”
But as exits polls I saw revealed, voter concerns about national security were lurking just beneath the surface. Americans are aware of the increase in homegrown jihadism and there is a growing consciousness about the threat of sharia law.
These election results not only bode well for progress in the Congress on our legislative agenda, they also bode well for increased pressure on the Obama administration to adjust the way it is defining and addressing the threat of radical Islam.
http://www.koamtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13433018
Oaklahoma will probably be challenged in court by the Obama/Holder Justice Department.
Hey A. C. Does your wife ever go by the name Flowergirl? Just kidding You really got her started.
Saw your girlfriend Michelle Bachman on CNN.She’s quoting that same 200 million per day from the Indian newspaper.My guess is they don’t have a clue what Obama’s entourage is spending and wouldn’t know a ruple(?) from a British pound from an American dollar,from monopoly money..Pure undocumented B.S.
Mission Accomplished! Did Obama intentionally Nuke the Economy?
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/03/mission-accomplished-obama.html
I Don’t Understand with Obama
***WARNING Adult Language Not Work Safe or PC
but dead on accurate…***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsZpWej8pF4&feature=player_embedded#!
How’s it goingg O.T. Say what you will about this obviously weak economy and whether a recovery has begun but don’t knock the markets.ALL major indices( Dow30,S&P,NASDAQ) up over 35% since BHO took office.
Suprised you buy into that ridiculous 200 million per day figure.
Hope you maintain your professed independence.Congrats to Col.West.As I’ve stated before feel Marco Rubio is the rising star among Conservs. Not so much O’Donnell and Angle.
Best to you and family.Thanks for your service.Let’s have a great Nov.11 and Nov10 (Marine Corps Birthday)
It gets worse:
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/34-warships-sent-from-us-for-obama-visit-64459
34 warships, including an aircraft carrier….3 heavy-lift aircraft, three helicopters and 500 US security personnel have already arrived
Oh, and what is THIS costing?
Obama wants to visit Mani Bhavan —the Gandhi museum.
OK, so far so good.
I bet it is nice.
The route is ~ 1 kilometer from Obama’s starting point in Bombay to the museum.
But Obama wanted to be safe in the congested city.
So…..
He is having our US military engineers build him a bomb-proof over-ground tunnel a kilometer long and 12 feet by 12 feet with air conditioning and CCTV security at all points, plus heavy guarding at each end.
Once Obama is done with the museum and uses the tunnel again to get back to the Taj Hotel the tunnel is destroyed.
Anyone think that Perhaps “the Messiah” didn’t get “the Sermon” delivered to him Tuesday???? I think we should plan on not letting up, and prepare a SECOND Sermon, to be delivered the same date, in 2012. Maybe, he’ll comprehend THAT one, because he is either too DENSE, or too ARROGANT to have gotten the last one!
3000 person entourage???? You know how may planes that is?? Logistics??? FUEL!?!?!?!
34 Naval vessels….. this guy is off his rocker!!!
What ever happened to “telecommuting and teleconferencing????? Didn’t little OBI WAN ever watch Star Trek??? LOL!!!!
Can’t WAIT for him to go!!!!
Islamophobia??? Why?? Isn’t that exactly WHAT THEY DO??? And to want to NOT do that here, they find “offensive”????? Well if they find our “humanity” to be offensive, then I find THEM and their INHUMANITY extremely so!!!
Pavel,
“My observation of Sarah Palin,” says CBS News political analyst Nicolle Wallace, “is that she is one of the shrewdest political figures in our country at this moment. She’s also one of the most electric.”
(CBS) “Most of the candidates Sarah Palin endorsed chalked up victories Tuesday.
And that scorecard leaves pundits wondering whether she’ll now train her sights directly on the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
As CBS News Correspondent Jeff Glor reports, “the former GOP vice presidential nominee backed 43 candidates for the House. Thirty of them won, with races involving nine others still undecided”.
Her record in Senate races was closer: She endorsed 12 candidates. Seven won.
Sarah continues to make asses out of those who think she can’t be smart enough to govern. Name one other person who has been more effective in the political arena since 2008.
Rich, I used poor sentence structure. The example was meant to refer back to Chris M, but it’s fun being a wise arse now and then; unfortunately, it is precisely why it is ill advised to send donkeys to school.
Jay Bookman, of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
“Now think about the impossibility of that. Two hundred million bucks a day? As Factcheck points out, the entire U.S. war effort in Afghanistan — where we have to arm, equip and provision roughly 100,000 troops in a hostile, barren environment — costs us $190 million a day. The claim is simply too ridiculous to be contemplated, let alone believed.
“Yet as the clip above from Fox Business News demonstrates, the absurdity quickly became fuel for the vast right-wing outrage machine. (My favorite part above is where the outraged host, the genius Eric Bolling, insists: “I will tell you unequivocably, I am not making this up, this has been reported, go to the Internet, go take a look.” Really, they gave this guy a microphone and TV time?)”
Coconuts removed from trees in preparation for Barack Obama’s India trip
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/8109295/Coconuts-removed-from-trees-in-preparation-for-Barack-Obamas-India-trip.html
Strangely enough, none of the Obamabot quislings can bring forth a credible source with an alternate dollar figure for this trip.
It’s also strange that these same sniveling quislings who claim to be deficit hawks cannot bring to bear even one scintilla of criticism for Dear Reader.
Greg, what say you to this monumental waste of taxpayer dollars?
An Aircraft Carrier never deploys all by itself. Take a look at the Flotilla and imagine the cost per day for Operations.
http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/navycarriers/blbattlegroup.htm
No Carrier deploys without an Air Wing.
The Carrier Air Wing
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/carriers/powerhouse/airwing.asp
The typical air wing aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier usually contains four FA-18 squadrons, one S-3 squadron, one EA-6B squadron, one E-2C squadron, and one helicopter squadron. You can find detailed information on each of these aircraft by clicking on the silhouette. That will take you to the Navy Fact File for that particular aircraft.
Greg, do you know the difference in PAY between a “Grunt” in the battle field, and the “suits” and guards etc Obama is surrounded with??? Any Idea what his “Tunnel” will cost to transport, or what it cost to have made???? Cost to erect? take down? load up, and Fly BACK to the USA?? The manpower to do all just this ONE thing??? Wake up!!!! And it’s payed for, with “devalued” Dollars…. I’ve already noticed the JUMP in Food prices here….. Labor costs? Nope, Material costs?? Not exactly…. Dollar worth LESS requiring MORE of them to buy goods?? BINGO!!!
Greg.. you crack me up??? Are you like, one of Gibbs lil Flunkies??? LOL!!
But I’ll ask you this, even “IF” the number was off by say, 50% (WOW!) … you don’t think even 100 Million a day, for Obama to strut about, is TOO MUCH????? 50 Million a day??? And, for WHAT???? What “benefit” does the Nation GET for this huge outlay of Cash???? Tell us all about it Greg???
People forget….even Democrats who like Obama forget …. that Obama imposed the Davis/Bacon Act rules on every penny of government money spent paying anyone’s wages.
So, while the Clintons could get away with visiting China for a mere $50 million a few years ago, that cannot happen today.
Not with the Davis/Bacon Act wage impositions.
When you consider those wage impositions $200 million a day makes perfect sense.
He’s having Marine One.. that special Helicopter flown over….. I assume it take s C5a Galaxy to haul that big guy….. What’s the op cost/fuel cost etc for that monster???? It all adds up….
Old Trooper2… Makes perfect sense, but why do they even NEED to go?? He’s flying in by AF1…. not Fa-18!!! LOL!!! (hasn’t got the guts) so why send in the “Fleet”???? He skeered of sumthin???
@Hankster58:
No, no, no….
You got that one wrong.
They are carrying over MULTIPLE (3 or4) Marine One style helicopters.
Those helicopters have to be disassembled, crated, loaded, transported, then unloaded and reassembled upon arrival.
850 plus hotel rooms…45 car convoy…3000 plus person entourage…personal chef…complete communications center…etc,etc,etc…
And on and on and on and on…..
Stay home Mr. Precedent.
Just stay home.
@ Aye Chihuahau, #42:
That’s because most of the costs associated with presidential travel directly relate to security. Details of security arrangements, including the related budget, can’t safely be made public.
There’s not a single credible source for the totally absurd $200 million figure, either. An article on an Indian website wherein an unidentified Indian writer quotes an anonymous Indian official isn’t my idea of a credible source.
@Greg:
Did you miss the remainder of my comment?
Here it is again for your convenience:
Aye, I bow to your superior intel!!
So then, triple the costs I asked about!!
‘
Greg said…”can’t safely be made public.” Hank says, BullSchite!!! What danger to SECURITY, is a dollar amount??? None….. The only DANGER I see to Obama, by revealing the TRUE COST of an escapade like this, is to his NECK!! If people REALLY KNEW how he was screwing them with these MANY trips of his, they’d want to STRETCH it! THAT is why they don’t want to “fess up”!!!!
It’s insane, as is anyone supporting this, and him! There is no important reason, for him to be there at this moment in time. We have Bigger, and more important needs, HERE! Work HERE Mr President, keep the MONEY HERE, Mr, President, quit RAPING THE TREASURY Mr. President…… do something GOOD for us ONCE, Mr. President!!!!
Now answer the Question Greg…….
“Greg, what say you to this monumental waste of taxpayer dollars?”
LET him pay with his money.
India and China represent the 21st Century’s two largest emerging markets.
I suppose the money might be better spent at home, funding remedial classes focusing on critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, there’s no way such a proposal would get through the House now.
AYE CHIHUAHUA: WOULD you help GARY ROBERTS ON “”DRAR MR OBAMA”"
need some ADVICE to get to FA
@Aye Chihuahua: #25 I’m not joking when I say that my fear is that it could go further than that. When Obama looses in 2012 it wouldn’t surprise me if he takes a vacation in an Islamic country or other dictatorship and doesn’t come back. Good luck getting Air Force One and the other stuff back. I have had this fear for some time.
Aye Chihuahua,
Obama just took a beating in the elections. Give him a little slack. He needs to go off some place and pout for a while. Pouting doesn’t come cheap for him. Just think how much his pouting will cost us after he looses in 2012.
@Old Trooper 2: #41 Old Trooper 2
A long time ago I read where there are more people killed by falling coconuts than sharks. It is still a fact.
http://www.unisci.com/stories/20022/0523024.htm
It would have been easier and cheaper to just rope off the trees and tell the Americans not to cross the ropes, but liberals don’t listen to the people here in the USA, so why should they listen to them in India?
SMORGASBORD: YOU know, A coconut, is not a bad thing If it falls on a nut
It will open it, and the substance will be expose,and bring more value to the NUT,
AND people would say, THAT’S a nut case. bye
CURT: 34, maybe, he has in mind to stop in AFGANISTAN, and win the war,
single handed. and take the job of KARZEI.
bye
@ilovebeeswarzone: #58 ilovebeeswarzone
“Some times I feel like a nut, some times I don’t.” Are you old enough to remember that product slogan? I like almost anything with nuts in it, except the US congress. We shook a lot of the nuts out of the tree, let’s keep doing it at each election.
If the president were a nut, what kind would he be?
SMORGASBORD: hi, I might be but I don’t know that slogan, funny how some days we do nutty things, my sister says NUTS are good for cholesterol, I remind her of the fabulous pecan pie,
I had a long time ago, in FLORIDA, in a restaurant where they had a woman baker
in their kitchen, she was a yankee as they call them in the south she could make a german chocolat 7 layers cake and jewish pastrys,
like you never taste before.
bye
@ilovebeeswarzone: #61 ilovebeeswarzone
Maybe the products aren’t sold where you are. See the video below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TA3c1YqCiI
To show you how strange I am, I like chocolate cake without frosting, apple pie, and both right out of the refrigerator.
It is off topic and will comment on topic only now.
SMORGASBORD, maybe they will have the chocolate bar in WINNIPEG,
thank’s for the video. bye
SMORGASBORD: your lucky to have a fridge making chocolat cake and apple pie,
IT must be a CANADIAN fridge, bye
White House, MSM Unable to Refute $200 Million-a-Day Mumbai Trip
http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2010/11/04/white-house-msm-unable-to-refute-200-million-a-day-mumbai-trip/
Curt, you want to add shame to shame on Obama?
Bob Kerrey, a former U.S. senator from Nebraska, is suggesting, Hey, let’s hire someone to run the government for Obama!
The country’s chief executive officer needs a chief operating officer to run the day-to-day government, to cut through budget battles, political fiefdoms, parochialism and inertia to assist the president in keeping this country moving. Let the president’s chief of staff manage the White House – an enormous responsibility in itself. We need a chief operating officer to manage everything else…
President Obama has the authority to create the position of COO within the executive branch, but he should consult with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders and ask their support for legislation to create a statutory position that would remain after he left office, much like that of the chairman of the Federal Reserve or the secretary of the Treasury.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110406882.html
What a back-handed insult to Obama from Kerrey.
And an admission that Obama can read off a teleprompter between vacations but that’s about all.
An obviously preposterous figure appearing in an article in a Mumbai newspaper, written by some anonymous Indian reporter, quoting an anonymous official in the Indian government…and Dana Loesch thinks the burden of disproof is on the White House?
It’s frightening that she’s homeschooling her children.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2010/11/obamas_india_trip
@Greg:
Oh my gosh Greg, this isn’t like a “Bush lied, people died” viral internet issue that lived on for years. Getting a bit touchy?
Bottom line, it’s extravagant during a suffering economy. Eventually the dollar amount will come out, it may not hit the figure that’s being tossed about, but it will still be outrageous.
Greg Bottom line this anonymous source quoted by this anonymous author doesn’t know the difference between 200 million vs 20 million vs 2 million U.S. dollars.What’s a couple of zeros among friends.Don’t ask what “several hundred thousand British pounds”equals.Right wing buys this like it’s the gospel’s truth.C’mon
@ Smorgasbord…… Peter Paul “Mounds” and “Almond Joy” Be CAAAAAUSE sometimes you feel like a nut!! Sometimes you don’t!! LOL!!!
Greg… well, true or false, the fact that so many people ARE willing to believe it about Obama, should tell you exactly how the people FEEL about him!! The guy should realize the lunacy of this. He’s a Pompous ASS!!!! It does NOT take an entourage of 3000 people to have a sit down, to talk about some jobs!! Haven’t you figured out King Obama yet?? EVERYTHING, about him has to be on a grand scale, bigger and better than anyone else….. started with the “Greek Columns” and hasn’t stopped yet!!! The guy is out of touch, and out of control!! All his inner circle have LEFT him, because they know he’s cracked, and going down! The RATS don’t want to get sucked down with him….. so they run.
Yeah Rich, and The Stupid UNIONS drool all over this guy… as he’s setting up deals for more jobs, to LEAVE the US….. so WHO is buying WHAT??? Dumb asses.. funding their own EXTINCTION!
A nice photo of Michele, at least. The photographer caught her channeling Reliable Information about Obama’s travel expenses direct from an anonymous source in India, via psychic link.
Greg,
I have to agree. It looks like she’s having a truly Katie Couric moment. Ewww!
Jeff
Well, he’s gone and here’s what the Indian’s have to say about his visit:
BTW, the Indians are still sticking to the $200 million a day story, now who would pass all that info off to their press? Almost like someone was trying to create a …….distraction, take minds off the election, perhaps.
Large paragraph of the man on the street interviews follows, heh:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/people/Yobama/articleshow/6883686.cms#ixzz14cSOVznN
@ Greg, got news for you Skippy, it is Tax Payer Dollars and not exempt from Public Disclosure.
So much for Accountability and Transparency. Your Defense of this extravagance is quite simply Indefensible. Neither Obama or you have an ounce of shame or integrity on this one.
@ ilovebeeswarzone, Ms Bees, I have been known to walk a mile for pecan pie or pralines in a Hurricane in a driving rain on a dark night.
OLD TROOPER 2: yes , that is hard to beat, a good pecan pie ,not every one can succeed it,
I wish I could. I must try sometimes, bye
Am I the only one who noticed that Greg STILL won’t answer the question?
@Greg #53: You said:
So Greg, what say you to this monumental waste of taxpayer dollars? You going to answer this, or do we only get another (half)witty remark??
@rich wheeler #69: You said:
Are we to take it that you don’t look at this spending spree by Obama as a waste of taxpayer money either?
Nope.. he’s a BIG fan of the “Big O”!!! What “O” says is Gospel to Greg !! LOL!! Blow several 100 million buzzing around on his Asian “Joy Ride”?? NO PROBLEM sez Greggy!!
Antirocks AND Hankster TOTAL cost of this trip is SUBSTANTIALLY less than ridiculous quote of 200 million PER DAY.How can you guys buy into that anonymous sources B.S.?
Isolationism as a governmental policy has been out since the 1940′s. Conservs. plan on bringing it back? Good luck.
rich, are you saying that with the economy the way it is, you have no problem with Obama’s junket?
@rich wheeler:
Says who Rich?
Says who?
Where are the figures which reflect what you claim to be the official accurate cost?
Where are they?
Oh, that’s right…there are no figures forthcoming from official sources.
I think what happened here is that the Indian gov’t official unwittingly let the cat out of the bag on the cost of this trip and the WH and the entire leftist front has been desperately, and unsuccessfully, trying to herd that cat ever since.
Even if the trip cost half of what the press reports have said, my criticism still stands.
Mr. Obama should have stayed home.
The country cannot afford these sorts of massive expenditures.
If there are pressing matters which must be discussed with people in India, then let him pick up the phone. AT&T has international long distance rates and, if Obie took advantage of them, we’d all be better off for it.
@ rich wheeler, We are far from isolationist at this point in history. No Embassies or Consulates have closed and there is no shortage of overseas involvements for the US Government.
As a matter of fact numerous US Corporations are stagnant in hiring/building in the US due to over regulation and poor domestic policy in the US but conducting business overseas is ongoing. The Government has continued to make it more profitable to manufacture products off shore. The ban on domestic drilling/energy production due to over regulation keeps driving up the cost of production as well. Russia and China are taking advantage of US over regulation and are doing nicely.
A POTUS that does not understand the US economy certainly cannot comprehend the Worlds economy much better. When Government over regulates an economy things stagnate. Private enterprise grows the economy when not overburdened with over regulation or worthless policies.
With no Official cost figures for Obama’s latest vacation, there is no accountability there. It would be far wiser to get our House in order than to be traveling in rock star fashion. This trip is Campaigning on a World scale when no governing domestically has occurred even by accident.
The time for Campaigning is long past. The time for governing is long overdue. That was a comment from one of Our Allies made yesterday over dinner.
OLD TROOPER 2: YES, the main focus should be in AMERICA FOR AMERICA FIRST.
SO many SKILLED PEOPLE are right here, some in companies who need to expand,
so to create jobs which are so needed by the people, even as those same people elect the one who are against creativity in the work place, which is so needed to be ahead of
their problems.
CHANGING is returning to the real values, not false hope aim at the people to believe
bye
Happy 235th Birthday USMC! Hope all jarheads have a great day.
A.C. Is this the same Indian source that said trip cost “hundreds of thousands of British pounds?”
Rich, easy way to end this, SHOW US THE COMPLETE BILL!!!! But NOOOOOOOOOO… we’re told we cannot know the costs, for “Security Reasons”???? How will showing expenses in any way cause security to be hampered??? BS!! Just like we cannot see his College papers, Senate papers, Birth papers etc etc….. When you go to these great lengths to NOT show something, you have something to hide. Sorry, Is200 m a day accurate, don’t know, and thanks to Obummer hiding the TRUTH from us once again, we probably never WILL know!! Well I take that back, once we BOOT him in 2012, the Conservative replacement “May” let it out…… be kind of like Bush and 2000 election, when the left crapped all over Bush, accused him of theft of the election etc…. and, when the LEFT did a COMPLETE recount later of, they found, INDEED, Bush had WON Florida, and BIGGER than the first announced numbers!! Did you see Olberman, Matthews etc, go on, and ADMIT THEY WERE WRONG??? NO!! Liberals NEVER admit when they blow it, they LIE, cover up, and then refuse the truth….
So, to quote a movie line… Obama.. “SHOW US THE MONEY”(you spent) on this trip!!!!
How hard is that???
But he won’t….. Rich, have you no curiousity as to WHY NOT??? Or are you a Brain Dead “O” head???
Come on, you want to prove me wrong, so why don’t you ask him to fess up the numbers??? Afraid??
@Greg: You STILL haven’t answered the question –
So Greg, what say you to this monumental waste of taxpayer dollars? You going to answer this, or do we only get another (half)witty remark??
@rich wheeler: Neither have you. I guess the both of you are too cowardly to go on record saying that in the middle of this recession that the US economy is in the midst of, you have no problems with Obama’s wasting of taxpayer dollars – no matter the cost.
The ad hominum abuse rolls off my back like ducks in the rain. (There’s your half-witty response.)
I actually have little to say about this monumental waste of taxpayer dollars because I’ve seen no actual evidence of its monumental level. (I sure would have liked to have seen a photograph of that kilometer-long, coconut-proof above-ground tunnel.) More likely it was very expensive to the degree that all presidential travel is very expensive, in a world crawling with organized terrorist networks and lunatic assassins of every description.
India and China are both important emerging markets. Occasional presidential good will tours are conceivably important to our future economic relationships with them. Displays of economic power are possibly calculated. The President of the United States should probably not show up in a bad suit and check his entourage into the Indian equivalent of a Motel 6.
You shuck and jive just like a textbook LIBERAL!!
I see NOW, you wish to “limit” it only to “Monumental” waste….guess HUGE waste is ok??? 
well WHO is going to determine “Monumental??? 
When you are not looking like you’ll win, you seek to change the rules!!
Why do you seek proof of the “tunnel” now, every news source on the PLANET reported on it!! And you are still in denial??? You’re like those “Neo-Nazi’s who say the HOLOCAUST never happened!!
To make their twisted beliefs more able to be accepted (in their minds anyway).. point being, the REALITY of it SUCKS, no matter HOW you “slice it”…
and in our Near Depression Country of TODAY, ANYONE WASTING what this trip cost right now, is an irresponsible SOB!! Period!
Deny that away……
And Roll that off your back!
@ Anticsrocks… and he never will answer it. the answer would prove him wrong, and we’ve ALL seen how lefties cannot do that, if a Liberal were to admit fault.. they’d flash fire and vanish in a puff of smoke and thunder!!
H ankster< I can visualyze that, 2 months ago, I had the biggest thunder right above my head,
and afterward I found out all the phone wired under the roof where burn up,
the tecknician fix one but the 2 other phones are still burned,
It must have been a LIB.
bye
@ Hankster, #88:
Any thoughts about the $10 billion in Indian trade deals he announced from Mumbai on November 6? It’s estimated they’ll generate over 50,000 new U.S. jobs.
Maybe Obama’s tunnel was monumentally expensive because it incorporated state-of-the-art stealth technology, rendering it totally invisible to news cameras.
anticsrocks #86 I’ll go on the record to say “in the middle of this recession in which the U.S. economy is in the midst of” is a real toungue twister.
’s is unparalleled.
Hankster #88 Your strategic use of
You guys gotta be birthers.
I’m going out for a Birthday drink.Suggest you guys do the same.
Semper Fi
That’s tongue twister.Seriously gentlemen,there’s got to be many more important things to discuss than the cost of this trip.
@ rich.. er thank you!uh Thank you verry much!! LOL!
Do I want to talk about this crap? nope, BUT, that ATTITUDE is actually the PROBLEM!!!
That “what’s a few 100 million”?? A few million/billion her, a few there.. all “drops in a bucket” until you start making drops fall like rain…. and THAT kind sir, is what the Government has done. And they are KILLING the nation doing it!
Birther?? Not really, but the same applies, WHY do we not require a guy like Obama, to “prove up” like I do, to get a lousy License to drive?? Money, paper records, whatever, when you start to “just ignore/let slide things”… you are done. It’s NOT the Governments money, It’s MINE, it’s YOURS, it’s GREG’S etc…. and I think we have legal RIGHT to see it treated, like the General population would spend it, if it was there own!! TIGHT FISTED, and NOT like some drunken fool at a blackjack table on the Vegas strip!!!
But that’s just me…. your opinion may vary….
@Hankster: #89
“…they’d flash fire and vanish in a puff of smoke and thunder!!”
Actually, they would “vanish” just as quietly and quickly as they could. Either way, I don’t care how they “vanish“, as long as they “vanish“.
@Greg: #91
“Any thoughts about the $10 billion in Indian trade deals he announced from Mumbai on November 6? It’s estimated they’ll generate over 50,000 new U.S. jobs.”
How many jobs did the almost $1,000,000,000,000 stimulus generate for us so far? How many houses did the bank bailout save? I have only heard of one so far.
Can you name one promise, other than ObamaCare, that your king has kept. Remember when he “promised” that 95% of us won’t get a tax increase? That is out the window. Your king wants to eliminate hundreds of tax deductions and reduce Medicare and Social Security benefits.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/11/10/bloomberg1376-LBOK5T1A74E901-289J5LS1RAHS2PDLB32UTU6J9Q.DTL
I am guessing my question will go on your long “Do not answer” list. Will you at least tell me what number I am?
@ Smorgasbord, #96:
From the SFGate article that you’ve linked:
What part of that statement can any reasonable person disagree with?
As I’ve stated around here more than once, any serious approach to dealing with the looming debt and deficit crisis is going to involve both spending cuts and tax increases. Everybody is going to have to compromise on something. There’s simply no other way out of this mess.
Without stimulus spending we might well have seen a precipitous economic collapse into prolonged depression. How many indicators suggested that was coming? Roll back the clock two years and consider the financial system crisis, the nose-diving stock market, and the skyrocketing monthly job loss rates. We can argue about emergency measures the Obama administration took until the cows come home, but at least the U.S. economy didn’t crash and burn.
Republicans can either spend the next two years playing politics-as-usual, or get down to the serious and unpleasant business of working on systemic fiscal problems with their political opponents. Since the new majority ran on the issue of fiscal responsibility, maybe they should consider doing that. I don’t really give a tinker’s dam who ultimately gets credit, so long as real solutions spreading the necessary sacrifices equitably come out of it.
Here’s the draft of the Debt Commission’s proposal, if anyone is interested.
Instead of going $4 trillion further into the hole over the next decade, we’d be going $4 trillion in the direction of fiscal responsibility.
But not without some pain for both political parties.
@rich wheeler: So I got a bit wordy and you can file that comment in the Department of Redundancy Department.
Now to the issue, as long as Obama spends it, you have no problem with the amount.
Bush took 8 years to add $3 trillion to the national debt. Obama topped that in his first 20 months in office.
Libs like you and Greg castigate Bush for his spending, yet you praise Obama for his…
Kinda says it all.
@Greg: #97
I find it hard to believe, but I agree with almost everything you said. The republicans are already saying that they won’t get rid of the earmarks. As long as we have a campaign system that requires politicians to use someone else’s money to get elected I don’t see a whole lot of changes. They have to do what the money tells them to do.
We need a system of electing officials where they are not allowed to spend any money. One suggestion was to have the Federal government pay for it, but how do you figure out who qualifies for it and who doesn’t? The money has to be taken out of the equation.
If a system could be set up that takes the money out of elections, then the only people the politicians would have to please are the voters.
Greg, look at the title page of your link at #98.
It is NOT the Debt Commission’s proposal.
It is the proposal of the two co-chairs of the Obama Debt Commission.
(In other words, it was trial balloons.)
Obama has already thrown their recommendations under the bus.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/11/obama_throws_his_fiscal_commis.html
Remember that Obama made an end-run around Congress in even setting up this commission.
According to the US Constitution, Congress has the purse strings, not Obama and the Executive Branch.
Congress will come up with their own proposal.
It is called the budget.
Obama will likely veto it.
@Greg: #98
You and the other liberals haven’t learned that lowering taxes increases revenue. I have lived long enough that I have gone through several recessions. Each time the democrats raised taxes, the economy went down. Each time the republicans lowered taxes, the economy went up.
Many experts now agree that if taxes had been cut during the great depression, it would have been over with sooner. Raising taxes in a recession is like a person who is having a hard time paying off their debts, so they get another credit card. You get out of debt by CUTTING expenses, not INCREASING them.
Look at the chart below and ask yourself where our economy would be right now if we would have kept up the same policies:
http://lgstarr.blogspot.com/2010/09/job-gains-losses-by-congressional.html
Look how quickly the jobs went away after the democrats took office.
@ Nan G, #101:
Yep, you’re correct. It’s a draft document consisting of the co-chairs’ recommendations.
Flowergirl: hi, ThIs must be a first, and the right way of doing was applied to get results,
that’s what I call TRANSPARENT, THE people was handed the truth and they knew what to do,
70% vote for. FANTASTIC, YES people are hopeful now, that things are changing ,
and to the advantages of the PEOPLE who had lost the power to redress the wrong,
NOW a different tune will come about, as clear to see,
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