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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: flowers on March 26, 2014, 08:57:49 pm

Title: Obama Family Flights to/in Africa, Hawaii Cost Taxpayers $15.8M
Post by: flowers on March 26, 2014, 08:57:49 pm

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/obama-family-flights-toin-africa-hawaii-cost-taxpayers-158m

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(CNSNews.com) – For President Barack Obama and his family to visit Africa in June 2013 and then Honolulu in December 2013, the cost to taxpayers for flight costs alone were $15,885,585, according to Air Force records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by the government watchdog Judicial Watch.

The flights to, from, and around Africa in June-July 2013 totaled 35.5 hours at a cost of $228,288 an hour, which totals $8,104,224, reported Judicial Watch in a press release.

The flights for the 17-day Christmas vacation in Honolulu in December 2013-January 2014 totaled 36.9 hours at a cost of $210,877 per hour, which totals $7,781,361.

Title: Re: Obama Family Flights to/in Africa, Hawaii Cost Taxpayers $15.8M
Post by: mystery-ak on March 26, 2014, 09:40:05 pm

 **nononono*.....and no one says anything...

Title: Re: Obama Family Flights to/in Africa, Hawaii Cost Taxpayers $15.8M
Post by: mountaineer on March 26, 2014, 10:15:40 pm

Quote from: mystery-ak on March 26, 2014, 09:40:05 pm

**nononono*.....and no one says anything...

:shrug:  Anyone else feel powerless?

Title: Re: Obama Family Flights to/in Africa, Hawaii Cost Taxpayers $15.8M
Post by: flowers on March 26, 2014, 11:28:55 pm

Quote from: mountaineer on March 26, 2014, 10:15:40 pm

:shrug:  Anyone else feel powerless?

yep