After seeing Markle's repeated references to Obama's vacation, I thought it would be a good time to have a look at the vacation day scoreboard over the last several decades

boards of FL wrote:Vacation days used by each president

Jimmy Carter: 79

Ronald Reagan: 484

George H.W. Bush: 543

Bill Clinton: 152

George W. Bush: 1,020

Barack Obama (to date): 122


Republican presidents total: 2,047

Democratic presidents total: 353

ppaca wrote:No, it appears to me that your teabagger buddy bfers are getting pretty desperate.    

Do you all play leap frog at your rally's?

Markle wrote:AGAIN, you left out the total EXPENSE of each "vacation" and where the President was at the time.

Joanimaroni wrote:Reagan and Bush 1 & 2 had their homes set up to function as a second White House.....like Camp David.

Bob wrote:You democrats and republicans tickle me.  You sit around arguing with each other about which president is more wasteful when the reality is presidents of both your political parties throw away fortunes on vacations.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:I told you PaceDog was too addicted to this forum to permanently undergo "self-banishment."

He came back just in time to relieve Markle, who was having difficulty putting up enough anti-Obama threads in the Politics Section.  

Markle wrote:

Bob wrote:You democrats and republicans tickle me.  You sit around arguing with each other about which president is more wasteful when the reality is presidents of both your political parties throw away fortunes on vacations.

When you go home each day do you consider that to be time you are on vacation?

ppaca wrote:Camp David has always functioned as an office for the President and will for future President's.

Bob both side's tickle me also, regardless of the president's, past and future they are always on call 24/7, 365 days a year no matter where they are. Before this left and right wing media who knew or really cared?

PACEDOG#1 wrote:The definition of the word  Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing.  Here are  six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of  America
1. America is capitalist and  greedy - yet half of the population is  subsidized.
 2. Half of the population is  subsidized - yet they think they are  victims.
 3. They think they are victims  - yet their representatives run the  government.
 4. Their representatives run  the government - yet the poor keep getting  poorer.
  5. The poor keep getting  poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only  dream about.
 6. They have things that  people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America  to be more like those other  countries.
     Think about it! And that, my  friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st  Century. Makes you  wonder who is doing the  math.
     These  three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our  current government and cultural environment:
 1. We are advised to NOT judge  ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged  to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.    Funny how  that works.
And here's another one worth  considering...
 2. Seems we constantly hear  about how Social Security is going to run out of money. How come we  never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money?  What's  interesting is the first group "worked for" their    money, but the  second didn't. Think about  it.....      and Last but not  least,
 3. Why are we cutting benefits  for our veterans, no pay raises for our military, and cutting our  army to a level lower than before WWII, but we are not stopping the  payments or benefits to illegal aliens.
 Am I the only one missing  something?

Wordslinger wrote:

PACEDOG#1 wrote:The definition of the word  Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing.  Here are  six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of  America
1. America is capitalist and  greedy - yet half of the population is  subsidized.
 2. Half of the population is  subsidized - yet they think they are  victims.
 3. They think they are victims  - yet their representatives run the  government.
 4. Their representatives run  the government - yet the poor keep getting  poorer.
  5. The poor keep getting  poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only  dream about.
 6. They have things that  people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America  to be more like those other  countries.
     Think about it! And that, my  friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st  Century. Makes you  wonder who is doing the  math.
     These  three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our  current government and cultural environment:
 1. We are advised to NOT judge  ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged  to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.    Funny how  that works.
And here's another one worth  considering...
 2. Seems we constantly hear  about how Social Security is going to run out of money. How come we  never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money?  What's  interesting is the first group "worked for" their    money, but the  second didn't. Think about  it.....      and Last but not  least,
 3. Why are we cutting benefits  for our veterans, no pay raises for our military, and cutting our  army to a level lower than before WWII, but we are not stopping the  payments or benefits to illegal aliens.
 Am I the only one missing  something?

You just stepped into crapola again, sport.  the military cut and the absence of military raises were both okayed by the house -- your republican buddies.  Take it up with them!

Floridatexan wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:Reagan and Bush 1 & 2 had their homes set up to function as a second White House.....like Camp David.

Isn't that just special.

Bob wrote:You democrats and republicans tickle me.  You sit around arguing with each other about which president is more wasteful when the reality is presidents of both your political parties throw away fortunes on vacations.

Markle wrote:

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:I told you PaceDog was too addicted to this forum to permanently undergo "self-banishment."

He came back just in time to relieve Markle, who was having difficulty putting up enough anti-Obama threads in the Politics Section.  

It just gets boring when the Progressives can find nothing good about the administration so they drag up old points that were shot down at least a half dozen times in the past.