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Michelle Obama recently revealed that she and President Obama don’t give Christmas gifts to each other. They merely say, “We’re in Hawaii,” and that’s Christmas gift enough.

But actually the present is from taxpayers, and it’s an expensive one.

The total cost to taxpayers of Obama’s vacations to Hawaii since becoming president is likely in excess of $20 million, and possibly much, much more. During a time of budget deficits that threaten the nation’s security and its future, the Obamas have chosen to maintain a “family tradition” and vacation halfway around the world instead of finding far cheaper alternatives closer to home.

The $20 million figure is based on estimates of the cost of the four Hawaii vacations the Obamas have taken during Christmastime 2009-2012. According to a detailed breakdown by the Hawaii Reporter, the annual excursions in 2009, 2010, and 2011 cost about $4 million, much of it attributable to the expense of taking Air Force One, at an hour rate of about $180,000, on an eighteen-hour roundtrip journey to Honolulu and back.

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http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/01...ons-20-million/

His majesty in 2006:

Mr. Obama agreed when Mr. Stephanopoulos asked if he wanted Americans to know that “everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something, accept change for the greater good.”

“Everybody is going to have to give. Everybody is going to have to have some skin in the game,” Mr. Obama said during the interview, taped Saturday in Washington.


I take this to mean his Lordship could have spent $30 mil on this one trip but restrained his spending. What a guy!

Crypto-mooslims don't exchange Christmas gifts.

Obama and Michelle are going to get every perk they can out of the tax-payers. Watch for Michelle to take several trips this summer, all paid for by us. With the entourage she takes along, we're going to be paying out millions. She could care less what it cost or what we think about it.
I can't stand that woman!

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24th August 2011

Expensive massages, top shelf vodka and five-star hotels: First Lady accused of spending $10m in public money on her vacations

The Obamas' summer break on Martha's Vineyard has already been branded a PR disaster after the couple arrived four hours apart on separate government jets.

But according to new reports, this is the least of their extravagances.

White House sources today claimed that the First Lady has spent $10 million of U.S. taxpayers' money on vacations alone in the past year.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...y-vacations.htm

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January 2, 2013
Obama’s return to Hawaii costs you $3 million

President Barack Obama’s decision to rejoin his family on their Hawaii vacation will cost taxpayers another $3.2 million for an already pricey holiday stay.

After arriving in Hawaii on Dec. 22, Obama left first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, on Dec. 26 to return to Washington, D.C., to continue negotiations with Congress to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff.”

After Congress reached an agreement late Tuesday, Obama opted to return to Hawaii, landing at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu just before 5 a.m. Wednesday.

The first family’s Hawaii vacation, taken annually since Obama was elected to office four years ago, typically costs taxpayers more than $4 million.

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http://watchdog.org/65281/obamas-return-...yers-3-million/



It is also 'Good' to be a Princess!

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Obama's Daughter Spends "Springbreak" in Mexico!

The elder daughter, Malia, of US President Barack Obama is spending her springbreak in the historic Mexican city of Oaxaca in the company of 12 friends, a state police official said. (I wonder if Ms. Fluke got to go with her free birth control?)

The young tourists, including 13-year-old Malia Ann Obama, are staying at a downtown hotel in this city famous for its colonial architecture and well-preserved native American traditions, the official said.

"We are here to block access to the hotel by other people and escort the vehicles that are carrying the visitors to tourism sites," the police official told AFP under the condition of anonymity.

Malia Obama and her friends are guarded by 25 US Secret Service agents as well as Mexican police, the official noted.

The group, which arrived in Oaxaca Saturday, has already visited the architectural zone of Mitla and the tree of El Tule believed to have one thousand years.

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http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/ob...estion-2528197/