The first daughters are at it again...

[Troutburger]

Thanks to the tax increases, fuel increases and overall economic crapper we are in; most kids won't get a vacation this year. So yes I resent them jet setting the globe on our dime.

[TrickyNicky]

But that's just it, it's not our dime anymore. The money goes to pay the salary of the POTUS. What he does with it is up to a point none of our business. The secret service protection is just a part of the job, I doubt we'd even be having that part of the conversation if we had a more popular pres in office. If you don't want the president to be payed or to be payed less thats fine, but if you think we have a lack of quality people running now just wait to see who runs knowing they have to foot the bill for their tenure.

If you worked for a company, lets call it Amerex, and the board of directors decided that you could no longer use the money from your salary to buy guns/ammo/range time/beer/cigarettes etc. you'd most likely tell them to get stuffed.
Now isn't that fair? After all, YOUR money is really THEIR money. They the people elected to hire you, your salary comes out of their pocket, so should they be able to decide how you do or do not spend it?



As to all this talk about what Obama is doing with his money (and once again, make no mistake it is his money now) while the common man suffers is start to sound a bit Occupy/socialist to my ears.




I think we are being way to easily distracted from the real issues by this nonsense. O could most likely pass any number of EOs and as long as he made sure to do it while on vacation and spending an armful of cash if would take back seat to the fact that "he's wasting our (his) money"

Just to reiterate if you've made it this far, I'm not by any stretch an O fan, but we do pay his salary right or wrong (wrong IMO) and no, we can't dictate that he not go on vacation just because we don't like him.

Rant off.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Are you going to make the rally in downtown Memphis tomorrow?

I don't have Air Force One, or Secret Service protection. I hear you need it in Memphis. :D

 

But I might go as far as Jackson. Some good food down there.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

But that's just it, it's not our dime anymore. The money goes to pay the salary of the POTUS. What he does with it is up to a point none of our business. The secret service protection is just a part of the job, I doubt we'd even be having that part of the conversation if we had a more popular pres in office. If you don't want the president to be payed or to be payed less thats fine, but if you think we have a lack of quality people running now just wait to see who runs knowing they have to foot the bill for their tenure.

If you worked for a company, lets call it Amerex, and the board of directors decided that you could no longer use the money from your salary to buy guns/ammo/range time/beer/cigarettes etc. you'd most likely tell them to get stuffed.
Now isn't that fair? After all, YOUR money is really THEIR money. They the people elected to hire you, your salary comes out of their pocket, so should they be able to decide how you do or do not spend it?



As to all this talk about what Obama is doing with his money (and once again, make no mistake it is his money now) while the common man suffers is start to sound a bit Occupy/socialist to my ears.




I think we are being way to easily distracted from the real issues by this nonsense. O could most likely pass any number of EOs and as long as he made sure to do it while on vacation and spending an armful of cash if would take back seat to the fact that "he's wasting our (his) money"

Just to reiterate if you've made it this far, I'm not by any stretch an O fan, but we do pay his salary right or wrong (wrong IMO) and no, we can't dictate that he not go on vacation just because we don't like him.

Rant off.

If we had a different president, we might be back to gas costing around $2.00/gal, wouldn't have killed the coal industry,

wouldn't have wasted all that money for crony green energy, wouldn't have let Benghazi happened. Do you really dismiss

things so easy?

 

That's what I meant about perception. Some of it would have actually been "felt" by consumers. Ah, just go and blame Bush.

Put that on the back and call everyone racist.

 

I have a different definition of productive and it has nothing to do with destroying the country or doling out pain. That alone

is reason enough to bitch about his vacations. If he would have done something to actually spur growth in this country,

instead of tearing it down, I would be saying something different. So, yeh, he vacations too much and leaves other commies

to rape and pillage.

 

Also, when someone squanders their job, doesn't produce, they get fired. He's a bad investment for

Amerex.

Edited March 30, 2013 by 6.8 AR

[piercedan]

I don't have Air Force One, or Secret Service protection. I hear you need it in Memphis. :D

 

But I might go as far as Jackson. Some good food down there.

 

Good food in Jackson?  Where?

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Casey Jones Museum in Jackson around lunch time. I hear there's some real good BBQ around there, also.

[piercedan]

I forgot about Casey Jones, but I haven't found much else.  Tried a Yelp highly rated Thai place that did not live up to the rating.  I'm always on the lookout for good BBQ.

[Randall53]

Personally, the problem i have with it is how the "impartial" mass media slaughtered Bush every time he vacationed, yet not a peep otta them when Obama or his family, or all of them go rambling around the world. They'll even go a day or two apart, doubling the cost of travel. Yet praise will come gushing out of the media fountain owned by Obama.

[Wingshooter]

Personally, the problem i have with it is how the "impartial" mass media slaughtered Bush every time he vacationed, yet not a peep otta them when Obama or his family, or all of them go rambling around the world. They'll even go a day or two apart, doubling the cost of travel. Yet praise will come gushing out of the media fountain owned by Obama.

Yep, it's the double-standard that gets me

[Wingshooter]

But that's just it, it's not our dime anymore. The money goes to pay the salary of the POTUS. What he does with it is up to a point none of our business. The secret service protection is just a part of the job, I doubt we'd even be having that part of the conversation if we had a more popular pres in office. If you don't want the president to be payed or to be payed less thats fine, but if you think we have a lack of quality people running now just wait to see who runs knowing they have to foot the bill for their tenure.
If you worked for a company, lets call it Amerex, and the board of directors decided that you could no longer use the money from your salary to buy guns/ammo/range time/beer/cigarettes etc. you'd most likely tell them to get stuffed.
Now isn't that fair? After all, YOUR money is really THEIR money. They the people elected to hire you, your salary comes out of their pocket, so should they be able to decide how you do or do not spend it?
As to all this talk about what Obama is doing with his money (and once again, make no mistake it is his money now) while the common man suffers is start to sound a bit Occupy/socialist to my ears.
I think we are being way to easily distracted from the real issues by this nonsense. O could most likely pass any number of EOs and as long as he made sure to do it while on vacation and spending an armful of cash if would take back seat to the fact that "he's wasting our (his) money"
Just to reiterate if you've made it this far, I'm not by any stretch an O fan, but we do pay his salary right or wrong (wrong IMO) and no, we can't dictate that he not go on vacation just because we don't like him.
Rant off.

The problem is the costs far exceed his salary. There is no way he is paying for the local and federal law enforcement to secure a vacation spot plus the cost of the secret service out of his own personal bank account. I know how much it costs to fuel a jet plus the related operating expenses. I know he has become a wealthy man since taking office, but I guarantee these related expenditures are not paid for from his personal funds.

[Randall53]

The problem is the costs far exceed his salary. There is no way he is paying for the local and federal law enforcement to secure a vacation spot plus the cost of the secret service out of his own personal bank account. I know how much it costs to fuel a jet plus the related operating expenses. I know he has become a wealthy man since taking office, but I guarantee these related expenditures are not paid for from his personal funds.

EXACTLY...I don't believe for a minute that Obama pays a dime. Air Force one alone costs a bundle every hour it's in the air:

"The U.S. military has provided an updated estimate on that cost, first published by a taxpayer watchdog group and confirmed by FoxNews.com, and the number is staggering -- $181,757 per hour."

"That's the price tag for shuttling around President Obama, who, as it turns out, has spent more days abroad in his first two years than any other president."

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Do you feel like your living in an episode of 'The Jeffersons'?

Not really. George Jefferson had a dry cleaning business. He was an entrepreneur.

I liked that show.

Edited March 30, 2013 by 6.8 AR

[Links2k]

I don't have Air Force One, or Secret Service protection. I hear you need it in Memphis. :D

But I might go as far as Jackson. Some good food down there.

Touche! AFter All Memphis IS Where The Weak Are Killed And Eaten. WE Must Know OuR Boundaries.:) Edited March 30, 2013 by LINKS2K

[wjh2657]

Some people are  Republicans.

 

Some people are Democrats

 

Some of us are Americans.

 

Three totally unrelated groups of people. You pick and choose which one you are.

[Guest ThePunisher]

Some people are Conservatives.

Some people are Libtards.

Some of us are American patriots.

Some are Marxist commies.

Obama fits in two of the groups, and I fit in two of the groups.

[npgunner]

Some people are Conservatives.

Some people are Libtards.

Some of us are American patriots.

Some are Marxist commies.

Obama fits in two of the groups, and I fit in two of the groups.

So are you the patriotic libtard?
Or the conservative commie?


And as far as the discussion related to what O does with his money ... I, uh, don't personally believe he writes a check to cover Air Force one, local law enforcement staff, etc. I understand the point of him getting this as part of his job, but his kids shouldn't get it (a moderate level of protection sure, but a 2 stop spring break vacation with friends? absolutely not). It took many localities years to be paid by his campaign for services they provided for his election stops, so I have serious doubts that he's paying for any of this with his money.