Try this right now: go to Google or your search engine of choice and type in Obama perks. You will get page after page after page of articles screaming about how the Obama FAMILY spent $1.4 billion dollars of our tax money on perks. The charge comes from a new book by conservative Robert Keith Gray called “Presidential Perks Gone Royal.”
Among the perks are listed “staffing, housing, flying and entertaining.” Wait, staffing? The White House staff is now a presidential PERK?
Here is the nonsense.
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“Aside from a salary, the president gets a $50,000 a year expense account, a $100,000 travel account, $19,000 entertainment budget and an additional million for “unanticipated needs,” he notes.
So, that is far from $1.4 billion. Could it be that most of the rest is actual expenses? Nah…
“”First Lady Michelle Obama drew flack from the media and irate citizens when it was disclosed that, not counting Saturdays and Sundays, she spent 42 days on vacation — within the span of one year.”
Forget that George W. Bush spent over a thousand days of his presidency on vacation and racked up far more travel on Air Force One. The FIRST LADY vacations too much! OUTRAGE!
Seriously, this is what my conservative relatives have their panties in a twist over right now.
