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This is from Mark Knoller of CBS.
The pilots and crew of Air Force One are flying more hours than a rookie on a beer run.
They are tired of it too, and are adding more crew to Air Force-1 --- I know this for a fact, because I'm one of the instructors that trains the crews. Our company (Atlas Air) has had the Air Force-1 and E-4 contract for over three years, and I've been doing it for about 18 months now.
Last year (2011) Obama flew in Air Force One, 172 times, almost every other day. White House officials have been telling reporters in recent days that
Obama doesn't intend to hang around the White House quite so much in 2012.They explain he wants to get out more around the country because, as everyone knows, that midterm election shellacking had nothing to do with his health care bill, over-spending or other policies, and everything to do with Obama's not adequately explaining himself to his countrymen and women.
And with only 78 days remaining in Obama's never ending presidential campaign, the incumbent's travel pace will not likely slacken. At an Air Force-estimated cost of $181,757 per flight HOUR (not to mention the additional travel costs of Marine One, Secret Service, logistics and local police overtime), that's a lot of frequent flier dollars going into Obama's carbon footprint...the very President who blames Republicans for dirty air.
$8 Million every time it lands & takes off.
We are privy to some of these numbers thanks to CBS' Mark Knoller, a bearded national treasure trove of presidential stats. According to Knoller's copious notes, during the last year, Obama made 65 domestic trips over 104 days, and six trips to eight countries over 22 days. Not counting six vacation trips over 32 days. He took 196 helicopter trips, signed 203 pieces of legislation and squeezed in 29 rounds of left-handed golf.
Obama last year gave 491 speeches, remarks or statements. That's more talking than goes on in some entire families, at least from fatherly mouths. In fact, even including the 24 days of 2010 that we never saw Obama in public, his speaking works out to about one official speech every 11 waking hours. Aides indicate the "Real Good Talker" believes we need to hear from him even more.
Obama has employed 63 speech writers [to reduce unemployment] so his speeches are also costing the taxpayers about $20,000 each. Can't wait to count the number of speeches he's given in 2012 but it's at least 5 times that of 2011. This week he flew to Nevada and spoke to a high school audience then flew back to Washington . That speech cost you over $20 MILLION DOLLARS when you cost the count of secret service protection, his personal chef and doctor, his speech writers, his valet, his masseuse, his hairdresser, his bullet proof car, and so on.
Related: Obama spends nearly half his presidency outside Washington , plans to travel more.
Related: Vacationer-in-Chief Spends $1.75 Million to Visit Hawaiian Chums.
Obama has spent over $800 million taxpayer dollars flying around in Air Force One, and probably another $500 million on his entourage.
Obama is just another dictator living lavishly at the expense of his subjects.
And we seniors have been told by our President to
"tighten our belts"
THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED PUT THIS GREEDY WINDBAG IN OFFICE!
PLEASE BE MORE CAREFUL NEXT TIME!!
