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Aren't you happy there's so much extra cash in the Treasury that Obama can afford to take 3,000 of his closest friends and relatives to India on your dime?
Roll the (money printing) presses, Obama needs to replenish his Debit card.
The unprecedented amount of around $200 million/day 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.
US to spend $200 mn a day on Obama's Mumbai visit
Your story is false. Made up then Drudge picked it up an ran with it as always.
Ask FactCheck: Trip to Mumbai
November 3, 2010
Q: Is President Obamas trip to India going to cost $200 million per day?
A: This highly doubtful claim originated with one Indian news agency quoting an anonymous source in Mumbai. The White House says it is "wildly exaggerated," and theres no evidence to support such a huge figure.
FULL QUESTION
There are reports all over that Obamas India trip will cost $200 million per day. I havent been able to find a credible rebuttal to this but I cant believe it could be true.
FULL ANSWER
This story has spread rapidly among the presidents critics, but there is simply no evidence to support it. And common sense should lead anyone to doubt it. For example, the entire U.S. war effort in Afghanistan currently costs less than that about $5.7 billion per month, according to the Congressional Research Service, or roughly $190 million per day. How could a peaceful state visit cost more than a war?
What else can you get for $200 million? Try the New Jersey Nets basketball team or possibly the Hope diamond if only the Smithsonian were selling it.
The hard-to-swallow claim originated with a Nov. 2 Press Trust of India article quoting an unnamed "top official" in the government of Maharashtra (one of Indias states). The source was quoted as saying that Obamas upcoming trip to Mumbai will cost $200 million per day for security and living arrangements, among other things. The story claimed that the president would be accompanied by about 3,000 people, including Secret Service agents, government officials and journalists, and will stay at the Taj Mahal Hotel the scene of a 2008 terrorist attack.
We find stories based on anonymous sources always deserve special caution, especially when they come from only one news organization. In this case, the anonymous official is not even in the U.S. government, and any information about costs would necessarily have come second-hand at best, an added reason for caution.
Nevertheless, the story was widely repeated without any additional reporting. Soon after the article was released, The Drudge Report a news aggregation website linked to the Press Trust of India article, with the headline "REPORT: US to spend $200 million per day on Obamas Mumbai visit " Later that day, Rush Limbaugh claimed on his radio show that "Five hundred seven rooms at the Taj Mahal, 40 airplanes, $200 million a day this nation will spend on Obamas trip to India." He repeats the "$200 million a day" claim several times throughout the show without specifying its source.
Ask FactCheck: Trip to Mumbai | FactCheck.org
Pathetic attempt to hammer the president yet again.
This sorry excuse for a human being needs to be hammered a lot more. We have only begun to destroy his Muslim Marxist presidency. And his ugly hog of a wife who tries to tell everyone else what to eat. Hasn't she seen her fat ass in a mirror?
From what you offer it appears you think you are a less sorry of an individual than someone that made it to the white house. You are a cocaroach with delusions of grandure. If I were president dangerously stupid people such as yourself would be fed to pigs and chickens.