Mr. President! Have you no shame sir? Have you no shame at all?

“Greg, what say you to this monumental waste of taxpayer dollars?”

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: #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.

@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?

CURT: 34, maybe, he has in mind to stop in AFGANISTAN, and win the war,
single handed. and take the job of KARZEI.
bye

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

SMORGASBORD, maybe they will have the chocolate bar in WINNIPEG,
thank’s for the video. bye

White House, MSM Unable to Refute $200 Million-a-Day Mumbai Trip

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 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

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.

Well, he’s gone and here’s what the Indian’s have to say about his visit:

Yobama!

God’s truth, the city was glad to see him go.

‘Coz not since 26/11, has South Mumbai been witness to such drama over security, such isolation of Colaba and Nariman Point, even Fountain, Metro, Mahapalika Marg and CST, all of which President Barack Obama fleetingly visited in his whistlestop trip to Mumbai. The governments central and state may say what they want, but Obama’s visit has left a bitter aftertaste in the mouth of the Mumbaikar who is accustomed to sweetness around this time of the year because of the sacrifices the city had to make over Diwali to accommodate this guest. True, he is the President of the US, arguably the most powerful man on earth, but so what – how does that matter to us, people felt, and why should our festival be ruined?

Expressing bitterness comes quicker than joy and questioning authority is easier than complimenting it, so this is what BT gathered from the common man about the Obama 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. 🙄

And while Obama’s visit might cost the US taxpayer $200 million a day, it is the poor common man in Mumbai who felt the pinch most…

Large paragraph of the man on the street interviews follows, heh:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/people/Yobama/articleshow/6883686.cms#ixzz14cSOVznN

@ 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. 😉

Am I the only one who noticed that Greg STILL won’t answer the question?

@Greg #53: You said:

“Greg, what say you to this monumental waste of taxpayer dollars?”

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.

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:

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

Are we to take it that you don’t look at this spending spree by Obama as a waste of taxpayer money either?

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.

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

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??

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.

@ 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!!

@ Hankster, #88:

…in our Near Depression Country of TODAY, ANYONE WASTING what this trip cost right now, is an irresponsible SOB!! Period!

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.

That’s tongue twister.Seriously gentlemen,there’s got to be many more important things to discuss than the cost of this trip.

@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“.

@ Smorgasbord, #96:

From the SFGate article that you’ve linked:

“This country’s out of money and we better start thinking,” said Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of the panel created by President Barack Obama. Without “tough choices,” Bowles said, “we’re on the most predictable path toward an economic crisis that I can imagine.”

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.

@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, 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.