Posted by
Locutisprime on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:03:33 PM
Michelle Obama arrives in Copenhagen for IOC vote
There was a time when our elected representatives actually paid
attention to who was spending our money and what they were spending it
on. (Back before they learned that they had control of an open end
taxpayer funded checkbook).
Then came the Congressional Budget Office. Supposedly created to act as
a check and buffer on congressional spending back in 1974. Does anyone
really care what the CBO has to say anymore? I certainly don't think
that the president or congress gives a rat's rotisserie what they say.
I raise these questions as it has struck me of late, that someone
should be checking the odometer on Air Force One. And the odometers on
rest of the Air Force executive fleet for that matter while they are at
it.
I have no direct way of knowing or checking on how much he has used Air
Force One and the other executive assets assigned to the Air Force and
at his disposal but I feel relatively sure that this president has been
burning up the miles in Air Force ever since taking office. Far more so
than his predecessor and definitely more so as far as it concerns the
first lady and her ability to fly on her own assigned Air Force Jet.
Obama will fly to Copenhagen tomorrow to make his pitch to the
International Olympic committee, in his attempt to sway the vote for
the 2016 Olympics in favor of Chicago. Does anyone else find it
bothersome that in the midst of two wars, an economy in shambles,
unemployment at an all time high and a congress hell bent to spend as
much money as they can get away with, that the president of the United
States is using "our planes and our resources" to lobby foreigners on
behalf of his old buddies back in Chicago?
Or what about the fact that Michelle Obama flew to Copenhagen on her
own personal Air Force jet yesterday. She is there (ostensibly) to
lobby the same Olympic selection committee as her husband, but she came
on an entirely different aircraft and with and almost equal amount of
security detail and Secret Service entourage as her husband has around
him. I wonder if she will lay back as she did on the European trip,
(once her "business" is out of the way) so that she can once again get
in more shopping days in a foreign country at the expense of the
American taxpayer.
And to add insult to injury? The media is referring to Michelle's Air
Force charter that flew her there as "Air Force II!" I wonder where
that leaves Joe Biden? Actually....I could care less where it leaves
Joe Biden. I would just as soon they give him a bus like John Madden's
and be done with it.
The real point IMO, is that we have a president who is literally out of
control when it comes to spending our money and borrowing us into the
poor house. And he is using the prerogatives and the perks of his
office as if he is some "nouveau riche" frat boy who could care less
who is paying for it. All the while admonishing the rest of us urbane
unsophisticated and unwashed commoners to sacrifice more on behalf of
mother earth and good will toward our enemies globally.
I for one am about damn tired of this Vichy arrogance and elitist
Fabian socialist waste. Especially when I am watching and observing my
fellow Americans in dire straights over the economic situation and
unemployment. And the worst of it? Who can we complain to? It's not
like we can call or write our elected representatives in the house or
the senate and they could or would act to rein in this ridiculous
wastefulness in the executive branch.
Hells bells, the majority of them are just as guilty of waste as he is
and Nancy Pelosi is leading the parade with her own Boeing 757 that
carries her sorry socialist backside back and forth to the land of
fruit and nuts sometimes twice a week.
And it's not like we can even complain to the White House, as we all
now know that they are taking down names and making their enemies list
as we speak. So where do we turn? Survey says! Nowhere. We are stuck
with this interloping elitist and his smarmy globe trotting fashion
challenged wife, unless and until either the next election, or this
country completely implodes and a revolution removes him from office.
Of course there is still the outside chance of a meteor strike or of
the western half of Africa suddenly sliding into the Pacific and
creating a tsunami that eliminates the entire eastern seaboard.
I say it's about time that Americans lay off the milk and sugar and start brewing their tea fast and strong.