$64,000 question
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Jerry Shugart
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This is a miracle!
A leftist actually worried about government spending.
I bet you were not so worried when Obama managed to double the national debt of the USA (which had taken over 200 years to accumulate) during his eight years!
I told you before comrade. I am no lefty, I am communist.
I guess you are doing a Trumpflection of the question:-
What did it cost the tax payer for Melania Trump‘s R&R retreat to Mar-a-Lago, following revelations of her husband Donald Trump’s affair with porn star Stormy Daniels?
Hint, start at $63,000 and go up a bit.
You can tweet your answer if you want to.
Jerry Shugart
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No wonder you don't like Trump. The commies in Russia lost their best partner when Hillary was defeated.
She sold 20% of the uranium deposits belonging to the USA to Russia in exchange for millions which were given to the Clinton Foundation.
Being a good commie I am sure that you are just as disappointed as is Putin that Hillary lost the election.
How quick they forget!
"Jerry Shugart" supports a Republican Party that last month committed the nation to a $1.5 trillion projected deficit - under the guise of tax reform!
This is during a "bull market" where one might have expected the government to engage in balanced budgets and debt retirement - not adding to it!
glorydaz
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Not as much as when Mrs. Obama took a separate jet and a whole staff of people to go to the same event as her husband. Did you research the cost of that one. I've heard some numbers, but they seem too HUGE to be real. :idunno:
Huh? Our boy won.
No. Post some numbers.
Obama's travel in eight years:
$96.9 million
Highlights from documents obtained by Judicial Watch:
• Secret Service records show Obama's April 2015 Earth Day trip to give a global warming speech in the Everglades cost taxpayers $145,752.36, making the total cost of the trip at least $1,012,367.76.
• Air Force records regarding Michelle Obama's trip to Morocco, Spain and Liberia with her daughters in June 2016 revealed $450,026.40 in flight expenses alone. A C-32A was flown for 28.4 hours.
• Air Force records show that the Obamas' August 2016 vacation to Martha's Vineyard cost taxpayers $450,295 in flight expenses alone.
• CNN notes that a GAO report about a four-day trip Obama took to Florida in 2013 — one similar to Trump's trips — found the total cost to the Secret Service and Coast Guard was $3.6 million.
Trump's travel in 88 days:
$21 million
• Trump is on pace in his first year of office to approach Obama's spending on travel for his entire eight years, according to CNN's estimates.
• His Easter weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida, was his seventh visit there in 13 weekends since taking office.
• Estimates of the cost of trips to Mar-a-Lago hover around $3 million per weekend, which would mean $21 million was burned in Trump's first months in office.
• The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has spent $3.5 million since the election, including $1.5 million for the Chinese president's visit, which attracted a couple of thousand demonstrators.
So what about golf?
The Tampa Bay Times' PolitiFact has tracked the number of times Donald Trump has played golf, compared with Barack Obama at the same point of his presidency. The count as of now: Trump 14, Obama 0.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/when-vacations-cost-millions/2320612
jsanford108
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Not really. It all came from CNN and tampa bay's opinion column.
Thus, the evidence, while possibly true, is showcased in a manner to reflect a biased conclusion. One need look no further than the obvious "estimates" by the opinion section of Tampa Bay Time's article, and CNN.
Barbarian uses relative information in order to support his "facts." Facts are objective, not subjective or relative.
How do we know what is possibly true to what is actually true?
jsanford108
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Comparative analysis of various government sources.
Opinions = possible, Evidence = reality.
Arthur Brain
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It seemed to cost the taxpayer $130,000 for the settlement...
The paper cited government sources documenting the costs. Trump has given himself lavish vacation time and golf outings, far above those of his predecessor for the same time period. Those are just facts.
If Trump settles down and applies himself a little, that could change in a few years.
Putin spends millions on photographers to take pictures of his bare chest.
Trump's travel in 88 days:
$21 million
• Trump is on pace in his first year of office to approach Obama's spending on travel for his entire eight years
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/colu...llions/2320612
$21 million
• Trump is on pace in his first year of office to approach Obama's spending on travel for his entire eight years
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/colu...llions/2320612
His handicap? I'm talking about golf.
Nope, but Trump's porn star does.
I would say, "good one" but it makes no sense. Trump's porn star spends millions to have pictures taken of her bare chest? You can do better than that.