Politics

Obama’s Summer Vacation Costs Taxpayers $37 Billion

Jul 15, 2014

Obama-golfingPresident Obama’s upcoming two-week vacation to Martha’s Vineyard will reportedly cost taxpayers a staggering $37 billion.

According to a calculation by Fox News, next month’s getaway will be Obama’s third most expensive trip as president following his $121 billion visit to India in 2010 and his $98 billion trek to Arlington, Virginia last spring.

While on Martha’s Vineyard, an island resort south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the Obamas will reportedly be living large. In a ground-breaking exposé Fox says that the White House has rented 12 houses on the island for a total price of $3 million a day.

A jaw-dropping $10 billion has been budgeted for entertainment. Cirque du Soleil is scheduled to give a private $125 million performance. And the White House has paid Disney $4 billion to create a miniature Disneyland on the island for the children.

Michelle Obama has also hired a team of 27 artists to paint portraits of the family while on holiday, and will be paying each a $500,000 a week retainer.

The bulk of the enormous $37 billion cost, however, comes from the elaborate security measures the government is taking to assure Obama’s safety.

Over 78,000 Secret Service agents will protect the president during his stay, at a cost of $1.2 billion a day. And 28 Navy ships - including one aircraft carrier - will guard the island for the duration of the trip.

The aircraft carrier will be equipped with 43 brand-new F-35s ordered just for this mission at a sum of $145 million each. When Obama’s vacation is over, the jets will be dumped into the ocean.

“We understand that some of these expenses may seem unnecessary,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters today. “But can we really put a price on Barack Obama’s comfort and peace of mind?”

Some Republican leaders in Washington believe the White House should at least try.

“This is the worst waste of government money since President Clinton’s $300 billion haircut,” says Paul Ryan, U.S. representative from Wisconsin, “When are the American people going to wake up?”

The Daily Currant
  • Jason Haze

    Anyone who believes this trash needs serious help ASAP

  • jazzsax_ut

    And people actually believe this tripe?

    America is full of idiots!

  • Christopher Rioux

    I hear that you can buy a sense of humor now.

  • Robert Nordgren

    And sad part is, right wingers would still be saying that those numbers are fake they are too low we all know he also has an order of 1 ton of caviar from Russia to come in each day

  • Derp

    This is great news! It’s almost like hearing the Republicans finally decided to pay for their two wars.

  • Marvin Gardens

    I got mine on eBay, but I laugh at inappropriate stuff all the time.

  • JanetMermaid

    Do you people not pay attention to facts at all?

    Bush spent 32%of his Presidency on vacation (more than any other President).
    Obama has spent 5.2% of his Presidency on vacation.

    Do you seriously believe Obama has spent more money on vacations?

  • Daniella

    That’s right Janet, but, trust me, I have family members who truly believe this bs above. They trust everything FAUX news reports on. We know it’s a joke, us sane individuals that is, lol.

  • V Cripps

    ROTFLMAO!!!

  • Juliette

    I just did the math myself and found it is actually closer to $45.7 Trillion per day. Fox News must have been conservative with the numbers. Why did Fox News turn liberal all of a sudden?

  • Nat Turner

    Pilger’s done some good exposes over the years,
    it’s good to see him once again turn his attention to his native apartheid state.
    Australia’s treatment of the indigenous should illicit worldwide outrage, but
    as the article makes clear the state’s “hidden under the global postcard-perfect image”,
    the image needs to be broken and just as there are those calling for boycotts of certain countries industries because of the treatment of animals, so should Australia’s industries face worldwide boycott and
    it’s “golden boy” image be destroyed.
    Presently they are begging business from the Chinese and the Japanese, they are regional players who should be approached,
    particularly in the light of Australia’s cultural interference program, well the Australians eat the Sacred cow, that’s OK, cause White folks do, yet the Chinese are berated for eating Dog a long time part of their culture.
    High and mighty this week the Japanese are handed a letter from the “Sea Sheperd” vis their hunting of Whale which Nippon has engaged in for 1000’s of years,
    the White West needs to know there was balance in the world and it’s life and food chain until the West’s advent on the world stage some 500 years ago.
    It is since that time we have seen massive species extinction and degradation to our planet.
    Immigration is another example of their racist arrogance.
    This 20 million X English have captured the continent, oppressed and sidelined it’s true peoples and wants to keep all and everything for themselves.
    Many asylum seekers are fleeing from situations which quite often have a Western hand at play there in the first place, but even aside from that,
    international refugee laws are ignored,
    we see last week Australia intercepting ships / boats at sea, denying refugee status on the high seas and sending them back to the countries from whence they are fleeing.
    Further to that Australia hoping to “Keep Australia White” has now taken, to start with, Manus Island (P.N.G.) & Nauru and turned them into detention camps for fleeing refugees, so that they cannot touch Australian soil.
    They have suffered brutality and death and if they are ever allowed to leave the camps they will be forced to stay on the Islands never to leave.
    With populations of under 10,000 and under 45,000 both islands, homes of Black people,
    will eventually be “swamped” and the genetic make up of the people destroyed or put simply these people face genocide so that Australia can remain White,
    as they slowly destroy the AbOriginal who’s fate will no doubt be the same as the Black Tasmanians who were totally wiped out.
    It’s time we put Australian racism on the world stage.
    http://sco.lt/62YFU1

  • ORAXX

    The average Faux Noise viewer would believe every word of this.

  • Boris

    Wow! Take your meds buddy.

  • One Whiney Voice…

    says Paul Ryan, U.S. representative from Wisconsin, “When are the American people going to wake up?”…….. WHAAAAATTTTT!!!!!…… When are our elected gonna Do their JOB !!!

  • juliejburns

    just before I looked at the receipt ov $8130 , I
    didn’t believe that my sister woz like actualy bringing in money part-time from
    there pretty old laptop. . there aunts neighbour has been doing this 4 only
    about 22 months and at present repayed the mortgage on their appartment and
    bought themselves a Chrysler . see here C­a­s­h­f­i­g­.­C­O­M­

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  • javier Reagan

    The cost of the golf outings is a little more than I made last year

  • Leslie

    Don’t believe this

  • Stephen Diehm

    that’s why Obama-lama-ding-dong is el’ Presidente…..idiots!

  • Shifty

    $300 billion haircut? really…I hope he was an american barber.

  • Sally Penfold

    Surely you are joking? You must mean millions, not billions? Although millions would be bad enough. If so, how incredible. He is taking America for a ride. And, the ride will end over a cliff.

  • captain_pudding

    They’re trained from birth to believe whatever they’re told as long as it agrees with them.

  • George Corvin

    There has to be a civil and military disobedience to OB and simpli ignore any payment and transfer of money for this man. The only holiday which must be paid for when he takes it in the looney-bin.

  • George Corvin

    There has to be a civil and military disobedience to OB and simply
    ignore any payment and transfer request of money for this man. The only holiday
    which must be paid for when he takes it in the looney-bin. Did he put a financial plan in before he arrived into the White House. Was it approved. If not it is legitimate to deny it.

  • bytheway4

    janet, you are a stupid liberal. Obama has been on vacation for 6 years. , Michelle/Michael has been on vacation 6 years also. You must like muslims, No president has spent money like this fake in the white house. you must hate America like your buddy, obama, the illegal alien.

  • bytheway4

    remember this? liberal/commies, You can keep your doctor, you can keep your insurance, you’ll get $2,500. Hospitals are closing, doctors not taking the so called obama care. Remember, you have to vote on it first, then you can read it. It’s so expensive, people are dropping out. Wake up you fools. I know what freedom is, I lived it years ago. You fools lost it for the people with your blind eyes. I pray you all go you know where. I don’t cosider you as humans, just as a piece of skin.

  • bytheway4

    javier, idiot, do you take the air force one when you golf ? Do you take many sercrt service men when you golf? Gosh, I have never seen so many uninformed people in the USA. No wonder we have so many problem here.