Michelle’s Gigantic Carbon Footprint
Michelle Obama has a staff that is paid approximately THREE TIMES as much as Laura Bush’s staff costs. Mrs. Obama’s staff salary (not counting fringe, health care, ….) totals $1,448,500 per year
When Michelle Obama was in France it could be said that she was there on official business as she joined her husband the President at a ceremony honoring the 65th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, but for 6 days her and her daughters stayed on in Paris for personal recreation with a 20 car motorcade that included staff and security personnel. The cost to the American taxpayers is unknown as the White House refuses to divulge any financial information about Michelle and the children’s French vacation at U.S. citizen expense.
A late May 2009 first couple “date” that included dinner out and Broadway show cost the U.S. taxpayers an undetermined amount that no official of the White House would divulge. But, in light of the Air Force One joy ride for pictures of the aircraft over New York City, being documented to cost over $250,000, it is likely the “date” cost much more when you consider NY police security, transporting presidential vehicles, security staff, security staff lodging and expenses. Is it possible that the “date” cost you and I closer to $500,000?
How much did it cost to fly a pizza chef from St. Louis to Washington D.C. for Obama staff pizza?
How much did it cost to fly the Hawaiian chef and 20 hand picked entertainers to D.C. from Hawaii for the Obama’s first ever, White House Luau?
This saving the planet by reducing our carbon foot print does not come cheap. Look how the Obama family struggles to keep the oceans from rising and polar bears from dying!
Senator Byron Dorgan WAS hot on the trail of wasteful government spending:
The existing congressional committees, Dorgan says, “have not had the investigators and the time,” to give this issue the focus it deserves. “So, we have held these hearings, and the waste, the fraud, and the abuse is staggering.”
Sorry, Senator Dorgan was talking about military contract fraud back in May of 2008 when George Bush was President. All of that has come to not much. But the North Dakota Senator apparently has little concern over Michelle or Barack’s rather gigantic carbon footprint and taxpayer funded profligacy.
Why is that?
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