Crap like this is a smoke screen to distract everyone.

50,000$ a day is chump change.

What does the wars in the middle east cost daily?

Exactly.

Let's focus on something important like wars and social issues. Don't let complete BS like this distract you.

I really don't care what she did at this point. Can I stop her? NO.

And why waste energy trying? I'd rather waste my energy trying to wake people up to the real issues, rather than piddly crap like this joke.

Originally posted by ~Lucidity
It probably costs taxpayers that much a day no matter where she is.

Biggest non-issue of the week to get angry about.

No it is not a "non" issue. The fact is Democrats say they are for the poor and downtrodden however behave like the millionaires most of them are. It is not about how much it cost on a daily basis to protect "Her Majesty Michelle" it is the appearance of living the life of a princess whilst the poor, millions of unemployed and downtrodden struggle on a daily basis just to get by. Have you no compassion? Imagine if a Republican had done this - oh my all hell would have broken loose - and you know it!

Originally posted by muzzleflash


Let's focus on something important like wars and social issues. Don't let complete BS like this distract you.

This is correct thinking. We all need to wake-up and quit whining about insignificant things that WE didn't get ourselves.

Is America held hostage? Yes
Is there a swat team tryin to rescue us? No

Originally posted by Mrmerak

Originally posted by ~Lucidity
It probably costs taxpayers that much a day no matter where she is.

Biggest non-issue of the week to get angry about.

No it is not a "non" issue. The fact is Democrats say they are for the poor and downtrodden however behave like the millionaires most of them are. It is not about how much it cost on a daily basis to protect "Her Majesty Michelle" it is the appearance of living the life of a princess whilst the poor, millions of unemployed and downtrodden struggle on a daily basis just to get by. Have you no compassion? Imagine if a Republican had done this - oh my all hell would have broken loose - and you know it!

Oh you mean like The Bush's trip to Africa? And how the left-wing press didn't make much of a peep about it? Because that's what FIRST FAMILIES do.

You right-wingers try to make this an issue, but when it's your own party doing it, you don't say ****. Either do what I do, and don't say **** about it regardless of party , or.....stop being hypocritical and criticize EVERYONE who does it.

THIS IS A NON-ISSUE

Originally posted by ~Lucidity
It probably costs taxpayers that much a day no matter where she is.

Biggest non-issue of the week to get angry about.

The problem is that alone, they are all non-issues. If the economy was booming, approval for the president was up, and this wasn't the third or fourth unnecessary, completely costly trip....then a non-issue it would be.

However, that is not the case.

At what point do people start actually breaking out the calculators?

[I'm combining Obama & Michelle's "fun"]

Martha's Vineyard....two throw-out-the-first pitch ball games....Hawaii, twice, once with a boatload of friends.....Copenhagen (this trip WAS not vital to US interests and was a pet project)........town halls galore......Camp David, three times..........date night in NYC.....

I'm sure there are more but those are the ones off the top of my head.

We are still losing jobs. Not stagnant, not gaining.....losing.

Everything is the world --including vacation -- seems to come before putting Americans back to work. It's been a year and a half and we are still losing jobs.

We can not have a jobless recovery while still maintaining welfare payments, food stamps, social security, medicare / medicaid, and unemployment.

We are in the red and there is nobody additional to add to the paying into the system, only those still looking to withdraw.

At some point, people better start realizing that we could have provided unemployment benefits for a year for two people at least with the amount of money that she spent on this vacation. And yes, we are at the point that even just two people's benefits getting paid for helps.

Hello? We are in a crisis? Anybody there.....??

[chirp, chirp.]

Edit:
Punctuation is good.

[edit on 6-8-2010 by lpowell0627]

Originally posted by Intelearthling
...while most of the country is pinching pennies and downsizing summer sojourns - or forgoing them altogether - the Obamas don't seem to be heeding their own advice. While many of us are struggling, the First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol in southern Spain with 40 of her "closest friends." According to CNN, the group is expected to occupy 60 to 70 rooms, more than a third of the lodgings at the 160-room resort. Not exactly what one would call cutting back in troubled times.

ALL WRONG! The Hotel and other personal expenses were paid for OUT OF THE OBAMA'S PERSONAL WALLET.

The ONLY cost to the TaxPayer was the Security Detail (which they pay for anyway) and reimbursement for the plane-trip over, since it was part of an official trip to Spain.

So tell me IntelEarthling, if you were a multi0millionaire at this very moment, would you cut back on your PERSONAL SPENDING just because the country is in a recession?

This is the big problem with the current state of our main-stream media in America. Each individual station cares more about "politics" and painting their opponents in a bad-light than actually reporting some substantial truth.

Here is my take on the entire trip to Spain issue.
It is an insult and a slap in the face of the American Tax payer and the country at large right now. Our economy is hurting and especially the gulf coast. The President has visited and stated the Gulf Coast is ok, and for the people to come on down. So why did she not take her daughter and travel down to one of the Gulf Coast states, that have been affected by the oil spill, to help drum up the economy for the people that need such? I find that the entire European trip is a waste of time and money on the part of the entire federal government. Or why could the First Lady not take the time to travel through the country to visit, oh lets think about what she is pushing: Farms and ranches, to promote healthy eating and the benifits of all natural foods? That way it would be a working vacation, and help out people in different areas. All this is just a bit of of abuse on the part of the President and his family.

Originally posted by ElijahWan

So tell me IntelEarthling, if you were a multi0millionaire at this very moment, would you cut back on your PERSONAL SPENDING just because the country is in a recession?

Ummm.....they are public servants for crying out loud! Nobody care what the heck Gates or Buffet do with their money!!

They are only in office for 4 years at a time. Eight vacations or so now? When is the last time you took 8 vacations in 18 months?

Perhaps I should have first asked if you are even employed since more than 10% of Americans aren't and I can assure you they are not jet-setting the world over.