Michelle and the girls left four days early for their December 2010 Christmas holiday in Hawaii. In August 2011, the girls left for Martha’s Vineyard just four HOURS earlier than the President and the family dog. Doubling the flights, motorcades and security details costs taxpayers at least $100,000 more than when the family travels together.
The House of Representatives has, with BIPARTISAN support, passed a 2013 budget for the military (H.R. 5856 – Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013).
President Obama says he plans to veto it.
Among his gripes are that the House budget did NOT include his proposed $1.8 Billion INCREASE in what SOLDIERS would have to pay in for their families’ health insurance.
Soldiers aren’t the only ones who have felt the negative effects of Obama Democrat leadership on healthcare.
The Democrats’ claim that Republicans just want you to die on the floor is bull. Visit http://patientcenteredreform.com/ to see more personal stories of how bad ObamaCare has been and what fiscally-responsible and caring solutions exist for real healthcare reform.
Sidebar: Jonathan Small says in the video how his family is struggling to pay down their $6,000 medical bills from a broken arm and childbirth while he was uninsured.
The estimated cost for the fuel it takes to fly Barack Obama anywhere on Air force One is about $60,000 an hour. Give or take. That’s about $6,000 every SIX MINUTES.
On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Obama flew from the White House to Portsmouth, NH, to Boston, MA, to Atlanta, GA, to Miami, FL, and back to the White House.
What “important Presidential work” did he accomplish on this expensive trip? Fund-raising for his campaign to get re-elected.
“I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.””