No big surprise here, at least if you're a libertarian, but last June, Obama appointed Biden to root out wasteful government spending. He sure picked the right man for the job. Nobody knows it better.While a lot of fellow citizens are having a hard time putting food on the table. The VP's plane is sitting at the airport in Grand Junction, CO so he can ski at Snow Mass. He loves it there.
Every Friday the vice president takes a helicopter, designated as Marine Two, from the vice president’s residence in northwest Washington to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland .
He then hops on Air Force Two to fly back to his home in Delaware . At the end of the weekend, he returns on Air Force Two, usually a Boeing C-32.
On Saturdays in warm weather, Biden regularly returns to Andrews on the airplane to play golf at the base with President Obama. After the game, he flies back to Delaware . On Sunday evening, he returns on the plane to Washington — all at taxpayer expense, of course.
The Boeing C-32 is a specially configured Boeing 757-200 commercial jet. The cost of flying the plane is $22,000 an hour, so each half-hour trip to or from Delaware costs about $10,000. Each golf game costs taxpayers $20,000. At that rate, the annual cost to taxpayers of Biden’s weekend trips is well
over $1 million. That does not include so-called deadhead flights when the plane often flies back to Washington empty and then returns empty to pick up Biden.
In addition, the Secret Service rents more than 20 condominiums in the Wilmington area for agents who must accompany Biden when he returns to his home state. Rather than try to find hotel space, the Secret Service decided to rent the condos in part because, even when he knows his schedule in advance, Biden rarely tells agents until the last minute when he will be returning to Wilmington beyond his weekend pleasuretrips. As a result, agents cannot plan their own lives.
A Secret Service agent says that since Air Force Two parks at Andrews, Obama is obviously aware that Biden is running up a huge government tab for each game of golf they play.
Biden’s press office had no comment. Asked if President Obama thinks these costs are appropriate and why he has not questioned Biden’s flying to play golf with him at a cost of $20,000 per game, the president’s press office had no comment.
Biden’s commutes have cost taxpayers at least $4 million so far. After my story ran on Newsmax, a major media outlet obtained Pentagon records confirming the trips and costs. But so far, that outlet has not run the
story. The rest of the media have ignored it, yes, Fox as well.
In addition to his salary as vice president of $230,700, Biden has free use of the vice-president’s residence at the Naval Observatory. The vice president’s residence is a handsome 9,150-square-foot, three-story mansion overlooking Massachusetts Avenue NW in Washington .
Complete with pool, pool house, and indoor gym, the white brick house was built in 1893 as the home of the superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory. Congress turned it into the official residence of the vice president in 1974 and gave it the address One Observatory Circle .
During the day, at least five Navy stewards attend to every personal need of the second family, including cleaning, cooking, shopping for food, and doing the laundry.
Biden has portrayed himself as a regular Joe, a product of a working-class family who takes on millionaires and Republicans who are said to be out of touch with middle-class Americans.
Biden’s disregard for the cost of constantly shuttling back and forth to his home in Wilmington and his additional trips to golf with the president betray the arrogant, contemptuous attitude we saw him display toward Ryan during the debate. (not that Ryan would have been any better)
LBN-INVESTIGATES: Vice President Joe
Biden’s London stay in
February was not the most expensive part of his trip. A
government
document released on February 14, 2013 shows that the contract for
the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand came in at $585,000.50
Oh yea, and this is special:
Spring break for a 13 year old - on taxpayers dime..
Malia on break in Arade De Mexico
Obama’s 13 year-old daughter went, with 12 friends on “spring break” to... Oaxaca Mexico . All on your dime. She took two jets,12 friends and 25 secret service men. A thirteen year-old !!!Why haven’t you heard about it? The Obama Administration had the Secret Service scouring the web ordering that any website mentioning this be taken down because letting the travel plans out could endanger the president’s daughter’s security.Nonsense, the “royal couple” just want to hide the way they are ripping off the U.S. taxpayer. Only a few Canadian Web-sites still have it up. This trip cost more than most Americans make in their entire lifetimes
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/maliamexico.asp
Obama Signs Executive Order Giving Himself a Pay Increase
by iamisatthedoors
PP)- Friday a White House press release was inadvertently distributed early to news organizations announcing that President Barack Hussein Obama had signed an executive order giving himself a pay raise to $500,000 annually.
ObamaWhite House staff failed to squash the story as the press release was intended to be distributed late in the day on Friday, after the deadline when most news agencies are able to publish breaking news stories.
Critics of the President’s executive order say the move makes Obama seem “politically tone deaf” because he gave himself a raise at a time when the federal government is arbitrarily cutting services and benefits due to sequestration.
“What a Dick,” said a pizza delivery boy at The Palookaville Post’s news room.
Presidential pay raises are usually approved by Congress, the last increase being authorized by both Congress and Bill Clinton in 1999 and went into effect in 2001.
The Presidential pay raise also now includes a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 nontaxable travel account and $19,000 for entertainment.
Read more at http://iamisatthedoors.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/obama-signs-executive-order-giving-himself-a-pay-increase/
~oh by the way
Biden: The last thing we need is another Ted Cruz or Rand Paul in the Senate:“I’m not talking about the character or even the quality of the minds of the people I’m going to mention. But the last thing in the world we need now is someone who will go down to the United States Senate and support Ted Cruz, support the new senator from Kentucky,” Biden said referring to Sen. Rand Paul.
“Or the old senator from Kentucky,” he added, referring to Sen. Mitch McConnell.
for the rest of the article:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/biden-the-last-thing-we-need-is-another-ted-cruz-or-rand-paul-in-the-senate/article/2531684
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