AF One Bill for Africa vacation:$6.5 Mil- military closes pools, no fireworks

[LadyGunSlinger]

Michelle and the rest of the Obama family touched down in Tanzania Monday and the first lady thanked the people of the East African nation for a 'warm welcome - music, dancers & drummers.'

Read more: Michelle Obama takes Twitter by storm on Tanzania leg of Africa tour, spending the day managing the account usually run by her staff - NY Daily News

Michelle Obama is going social during her African visit, taking over the Twitter account

 

[J.E.D]

NIce headline. Faux News?

You're still dumb. FYI.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

Music , dancing and drummers for their family trip! Oh yipeeeeee LOL 100 MILLION DOLLARS for the African dance fest!

 

[rightwinger]

Michelle and the rest of the Obama family touched down in Tanzania Monday and the first lady thanked the people of the East African nation for a 'warm welcome - music, dancers & drummers.'

Read more: Michelle Obama takes Twitter by storm on Tanzania leg of Africa tour, spending the day managing the account usually run by her staff - NY Daily News

Michelle Obama is going social during her African visit, taking over the Twitter account

Glad to see the Obama family representing our country

Fantastic global ambassadors

 

[rightwinger]

I said in a different thread, the base we are stationed at did indeed nix fireworks this year. However, we are still having a celebration. Including bounce houses, food vendors, games and a concert.

The only difference this year from last is that the fireworks has been replaced with "a laser light show".

Doesn't count

Our founding fathers did not have laser light shows

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57589236/report-obamas-africa-trip-could-cost-$60-100-million/

At the end of June, Mr. Obama and his family will take an eight-day trip to sub-Saharan Africa

But the also paper reports that, due to "a confluence of factors," Mr. Obama's three-country trip could be "one of the most expensive" of his presidency.

"Obama's trip could cost the federal government $60 million to $100 million based on the costs of similar African trips in recent years, according to one person familiar with the journey, who was not authorized to speak for attribution," according to the Post. The paper said that it received the internal planning document from a "person who is concerned about the amount of resources necessary for the trip."


According to the Washington Post, the expenses listed on the document include:



"Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency.


Military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with sheets of bulletproof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family will stay. Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president's airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close."



Other sources of expense include the use of 56 vehicles and hundreds of Secret Service agents, according to the Post. The document, however, did not note specific prices.


Mr. Obama and first lady Michelle Obama had reportedly been planning to go on a safari in Tanzania, but the Post says that trip was canceled after reporters inquired into the cost and purpose of the trip.


At a press briefing on Friday, White House spokesman Ben Rhodes defended the trip, noting that "we have not traveled to Africa in the same way that we've traveled to other regions in the world" and that "Africa's a critically important region of the world."

"We have huge interests there... So for the United States to say, 'We're a world leader except in this continent' doesn't make any sense," Rhodes told reporters. "From a foreign policy perspective, in some respects, people believe this trip is overdue. And, frankly, there will be a great bang for our buck for being in Africa, because when you travel to regions like Africa that don't get a lot of presidential attention, you can have very long-standing and long-running impact from the visit."

 

[Wildman]

What kind of a Commander In Chief goes running around all over the world with his family on vacation spending 10's of millions of dollars while his troops are cut to bare bones for simple pleasures they rarely get to partake of?? This THUG, that's who.

you really want to know what kind of CIC ? for starters he is a muslime, he hates America, he hates us patriots, he is a muslime sympathizer, he hates the Constitution and Bill Of Rights, he hates our military. he truly is Satan

/

need more proof ??

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

Military families cut and go without while Odumbo and his family vacation in Africa.. Hawaii at Christmas wasn't enough..

For George Bush the cost of flying Air Force One to his Texas ranch was approximately $56,800 per trip, for each of the 180 trips according to Media Matters. President Bush spent Christmas during his two terms at the White House so his staff and secret service could spend the holiday with their family,

The Latest Obama Outrage: the Family's $100 Million Vacation - Money Morning

 

[Wildman]

What kind of a Commander In Chief goes running around all over the world with his family on vacation spending 10's of millions of dollars while his troops are cut to bare bones for simple pleasures they rarely get to partake of?? This THUG, that's who.

There were state visits and at least one conference also attended by former President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.........you know.

what a fucking loser.., you got nothing better than "Bush did it, Bush did it, Bush did it,"

 

[Wildman]

How much did the US shell out for security and other costs for Bush, Jr.'s African trip this week?

Now appearing in the dictionary under the entry for the word inconvenient:

HuH ?? WTF ???

 

[J.E.D]

you really want to know what kind of CIC ? for starters he is a muslime, he hates America, he hates us patriots, he is a muslime sympathizer, he hates the Constitution and Bill Of Rights, he hates our military. he truly is Satan

At least he can spell.

 

[rightwinger]

How much did the US shell out for security and other costs for Bush, Jr.'s African trip this week?

Now appearing in the dictionary under the entry for the word inconvenient:

HuH ?? WTF ???

Is Bush going to reimburse the taxpayers for security on his vacation?

 

[rightwinger]

you really want to know what kind of CIC ? for starters he is a muslime, he hates America, he hates us patriots, he is a muslime sympathizer, he hates the Constitution and Bill Of Rights, he hates our military. he truly is Satan

At least he can spell.

He is trying to impress on us that Muslims are slime

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

Yes we know you Zombies only care when Booooooooooooooooosh does it or did it.. We get it.

 

[J.E.D]

you really want to know what kind of CIC ? for starters he is a muslime, he hates America, he hates us patriots, he is a muslime sympathizer, he hates the Constitution and Bill Of Rights, he hates our military. he truly is Satan

At least he can spell.

He is trying to impress on us that Muslims are slime

Oh....not very clever

 

[Wildman]

Wait...every base I've ever been to does not have its own fireworks display. Where are you getting this stuff?

The article in the OP

Very odd...been stationed at Newport, Corpus Christi, Kingsville, Pensacola, Pt Mugu, Moffett, North Island, Miramar, Barber's Point, and even Jacksonville Arkansas with the Air Force over the 4th one year. NONE of those bases ever held fireworks displays themselves. Out in town, local parks were where they were at. (Tho one year at P-cola, we had an afternoon thunderstorm on the 4th that knocked out the power and made the sky very dark and everyone in the BOQ started firing off bottle rockets. It was like a mini-war zone.

when were you at Pt Mugu, Moffett, North Island, Miramar, Barber's Point, ??

 

[J.E.D]

Yes we know you Zombies only care when Booooooooooooooooosh does it or did it.. We get it.

Yep

 

[J.E.D]

Oh wait. What was the First Lady doing there? Was that a vacation on the taxpayers' dime?

 

[J.E.D]

 

[Wildman]

Michelle and the rest of the Obama family touched down in Tanzania Monday and the first lady thanked the people of the East African nation for a 'warm welcome - music, dancers & drummers.'

Read more: Michelle Obama takes Twitter by storm on Tanzania leg of Africa tour, spending the day managing the account usually run by her staff - NY Daily News

Michelle Obama is going social during her African visit, taking over the Twitter account

Glad to see the Obama family representing our country

Fantastic global ambassadors

why do you the Obozos ??