Thread: This Is Not A CraigsList Notice
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10-26-2012 01:11 PM #1411
Also, Glenn, the White House press "corpse" goes with him. I made my company's air travel arrangements for them in the late sixties and early seventies. At that time the White House had its own travel office staffed by very capable professionals. I don't know how corpse transportation is run now. BUT ....... when the poorest excuse for a man to ever hold the presidency took office, his wife (her name now escapes me) accused the travel office of financial misdeeds of various kinds. The staff was dismissed. White House travel was turned over to a travel agency that was, quite coincidentally, owned by a friend of hers.
The impeached aforementioned "poorest excuse" is now a venerated Elder Statesman and his wife is now Secretary of state.
Yeah.
JimLast edited by Big Tracks; 10-26-2012 at 02:28 PM.
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10-26-2012 02:27 PM #1412
Don't forget that on this trip they had several stops---each stop would of had an advance party of secret service, plus C5As hauling in choppers and armored limos----and its probably a little over 2 hours Chicago to Andrews AFB so you will be well over one/half million dollars just for AF ONE-------
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10-26-2012 03:59 PM #1413
If they could (or were even interested) in eliminating all the fraud, waste, and abuse in the Federal Government and apply that money to the deficit, betcha we'd see that big number go down in a hurry!!! Seeing as how the one's who benefit most from the fraud, waste, and abuse would be the one's to end it I guess we don't have to wait for that to ever happen!!!!!!Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
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10-26-2012 07:37 PM #1414
You also forgot the ambulance, the helicopters, the black Suburbans along with the multitude of secret service personnel plus the spare Air Force 1 that isn't too far away, either a 747 or a smaller airplane. Obumbler has been here three times in the past couple of years - and that motorcade BS will tie up an entire city plus screw up our pretty small Albany International(?) Airport for hours - talk about lost time/costs(millions of $$) for many thousands of others caught up in the messDave W
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10-26-2012 10:47 PM #1415
As a Kiwi, all of this has no personal impact on me.
But I seem to remember...
Not long ago some the auto industry were asking your government to bail them out of financial trouble.
Some of the auto executives had the temerity to turn up in their corporate jets; and were told to sell those off now, and to live within their means before coming cap-in-hand pleading for assistance.
Your country's going broke...running huge budget deficits.
Wouldn't it seem like a good idea for the politicians to practice what they preach?
And sell those 'corporate jets'?
Just wondering...
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10-27-2012 04:13 AM #1416
AHHhhhhh.. imagine a world like that! Where the politician actually wanted to do what's right for his country moreso than his political party... what a world it would be!
But instead, "we" just continue to vote in the incumbent and now we've taught them that they have nothing to fear from the voters, they only have to deliver promises and then blame someone else for the countries ills.
Maybe someday it'll change? .....................soon?????............................
ps, as far as no personal impact? If "we" fail, we're taking everything / everyone with us! Remember that world economy? Here it goes!!!Last edited by 34_40; 10-27-2012 at 04:19 AM.
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10-27-2012 07:26 AM #1417
what nobody discusses is that not only does it cost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$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
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10-27-2012 08:52 AM #1418
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 ...tedI'LL KEEP MY PROPERTY, MY MONEY, MY FREEDOM, AND MY GUNS, AND YOU CAN KEEP THE CHANGE------ THE PROBLEM WITH LIBERALISM IS SOONER OR LATER YOU RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLES MONEY margaret thacher 1984
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10-27-2012 09:59 AM #1419
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)Dave W
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10-27-2012 10:39 AM #1420
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 ...tedI'LL KEEP MY PROPERTY, MY MONEY, MY FREEDOM, AND MY GUNS, AND YOU CAN KEEP THE CHANGE------ THE PROBLEM WITH LIBERALISM IS SOONER OR LATER YOU RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLES MONEY margaret thacher 1984
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10-27-2012 11:10 AM #1421
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--------
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10-27-2012 11:28 AM #1422
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! )" "No matter where you go, there you are!" Steve.
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10-27-2012 11:31 AM #1423
do you really think its worth half a million $$ for him to read a teleprompter in front od 200 college kids???????????????
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10-27-2012 11:35 AM #1424
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10-27-2012 11:50 AM #1425
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
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