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Originally Posted by herbet99

You give us way too much credit

that has to be my "Quote of the Week !" - - - - short but brilliant !

what nobody discusses is that not only does it cost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$to fly POTUS around with all the advance workers and support equipment, but how bad they screw up traffic on the roadways and ALSO air traffic of other aircraft is blocked from the portions of the countery HE is being flown between-----THEY always go DIRECT which might save THEM hundreds of dollars in fuel costs, but it increases the area of the airspace that is shut down to airlines for a certain time before and after THEIR transit----it gets more comlicated in that in this voting sorie to Chicago, that west coast departures would be delayed so as not to be anywhere near the eastern airspace that AF1 might be in

ya monday night he brought that million dollar an hour flying circus out here to lax just to go on the jay leno show and pick up a few more checks from the Hollywood billionaires but la is used to that he has been here 17 times this year ...ted

Originally Posted by ted dehaan

ya monday night he brought that million dollar an hour flying circus out here to lax just to go on the jay leno show and pick up a few more checks from the Hollywood billionaires but la is used to that he has been here 17 times this year ...ted

That must make the 405 freeway even more of a 'joy' to sit on for hours.

Heck Ted, we only had the emporator visit three times - but of course, no billionaires here to throw money at him - only GE

It really gripes me, a card carrying and conservative tax payer, to have to help pay with my hard earned money in the form of taxes for his fun and games with the liberal weenie so called wheeler dealers. I recently read that it cost the tax payers over 1.1 BILLION dollars a year to pay for him and his family (which I think is low for 2012)

ya just think how much it cost to fly him uo to the hamptons to play the 100 plus rounds of golf if you do the math that's about once every 2 weeks oh well you can just add jealousy to my other descriptions like extreme right winger, raciest, sexiest, misogynist, homophobe, and I am sure there's more just can't think of them now but just turn msnbc, or cnn, you will hear them all LOL ...ted

I just noticed on a photo of him at a stopover Thursday that the plane in back of him was a B757-----does the white house or air force buy the fuel????????maybe the oil people lowered there credit rating-----the B757 had the best seat mile/gallon of all aircraft--------

Just because we don't like the current POTUS, doesn't mean he doesn't need protection. If he decided to forego Air Force one, and use a suburban, it would make it a bit easier for all the nut jobs out there to take him out. I think we'd all agree that if any POTUS was shot or killed it would not help our current economic situation, and as much as it PAINS ME to say this, anybody holding this office deserves protection for themselves and their families. I agree the costs are obsurd, but in order to do his job, he does need to travel.(maybe not so often, though! )

Originally Posted by stovens

Just because we don't like the current POTUS, doesn't mean he doesn't need protection. If he decided to forego Air Force one, and use a suburban, it would make it a bit easier for all the nut jobs out there to take him out. I think we'd all agree that if any POTUS was shot or killed it would not help our current economic situation, and as much as it PAINS ME to say this, anybody holding this office deserves protection for themselves and their families. I agree the costs are obsurd, but in order to do his job, he does need to travel.(maybe not so often, though! )

Regardless of who the President is, the same travelling circus goes with him everywhere he goes. The Secret Service is bound by law with the protection of the President, Vice President, visiting dignitaries from other countries, etc. It costs the taxpayers a fortune, and I doubt any President likes having to travel this way everywhere he goes!!!! It's just another case of government spending being totally out of control. The Secret Service, Department of Defense, and all the rest of the programs that were originally designed with a purpose have fell victim to some bureaucrat going crazy with his own authority and making plans and programs without any consideration to the cost to the taxpayer!!!! The President can not travel without the Secret Service. Period. Just another version of attacking the messenger instead of the message!!!!

do you really think its worth half a million $$ for him to read a teleprompter in front od 200 college kids???????????????

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

do you really think its worth half a million $$ for him to read a teleprompter in front od 200 college kids???????????????

Not really Jerry, but we have to tolerate him for a few more months! My point was if we had someone we loved in office, we'd ignore these issues.

I think that any body within reason in these times would be trying to spend less money---HE can reach the TV networks with a "fire side chat" on every tv/radio station in the country from the White House with out exposing the President of the United States Of America to every body with the even the slightest wish of the termination of HIS period in office!!!!!!!!!!!

If we really had any tiny bit of ability to limit campaign finance---------------------no super pacs, etc

It does not matter who is the POTUS, they all do or did the same thing.

My issue is why does the POTUS get to use our money for his protection, transportation, ect. while he is campaigning.
Even if he is paying for everything thru campaign contributions (which I don’t think so), we are paying him to be the POTUS, not for him to be campaigning for a job.

Being from Illinois, when HE was running for the US Senate, the republican candidate was Allen Keyes??? who even wasn't from Illinois(Delaware I think) so OBama was guaranteed to be elected ---------even I voted for him as HE was from Illinois-----Keyes wasn't-----

Soooooooooo, he campaigned for President for 2 years, got elected and now I feel that the 6 years I helped send him to Washington is OVER-------he can go back to being an usher for Wright

Dave, it isn't about the secret service who guard him, his family, etc----

Its about the over abundance of traveling all around in zig zag patterns causing total disruption of ALL other air travel so he can go direct, point to point while everybody else is grounded, delayed, rerouted so they can fly in helos, suburmans, ambulance, etc---------it costs $3000 per minute to operate the B747 AF1---------plus the C-17s, helos, etc-----------

Once nominated The Secret service is required to protect the opposing nominee also, So its not just the potus .