from Harold…
“The United States is broke! We are borrowing 42 cents of every single dollar the Federal government spends. With the nation facing a true unemployment rate of about 16% or worse, as some 14-plus million Americans have lost their jobs since her husband..took office, was taking a vacation overseas a good idea?”
Despite complaints last year when Michelle and most of her family and friends went on their ultra-expensive trip to Spain, she threw caution to the wind and took off again–without the president–this time in South Africa. The Obama’s have got this ‘let-them-eat-cake’ vacationing stuff down to a science This time they got to go on a safari, saw elephants, and were treated like royalty, which is exactly what she and Barack seem to be aiming for…
Sure, Michelle and her husband usually find time to fit in “work”, such as talking to people (which they could maybe do via telephone or, I don’t know, Skype?), but mostly they get to attend glitzy dinners, tour amazing places and all this without ever having to worry about being groped by TSA.
If the White house is to be believed, the trip has been billed as an ‘official trip’ in which Mrs. Obama is supposedly trying to promote that most important issue, “listening to youth…”
I think Laura Ingraham put it best when she said, “Did you elect Michelle Obama as an international youth coordinator? And is this really vital to America at a time of such great economic peril? This is another tax payer funded family vacation…The White House may call this an official visit; I call it an official waste of money.”
She can’t take the kids on a summer vacation? The Obamas are rich, ya know. And they are the first family and entitled to use of the company plane and, alas, a significantly expensive security presence.
But they pay their own hotel bills.
Michelle travels an average amount for a First Lady.
This is incorrect.
If you repeat “facts” from a liar like Laura Ingraham, you are a liar, also.