How Much Will Obama’s Trip To Costa Rica Cost?

[davidd]

Imxploring

I can answer that question

it’s a write off Jerry 🙂

http://youtu.be/XEL65gywwHQ

Next question….

Under which of these presidents did the (acknowledged) National Debt increase the most?

We’ll ignore the debt to the SSA and Medicare programs just this once… since that opens up a whole other debate.[/quote]

[johnnyh]

[quote=”imxploring”][quote=”waggoner41″][quote=”davidd”]anyone want to take a gander as to how much this whole trip with the U.S. king will cost the american taxpayer???

i avoid saying names because in case secret service is tailing this forum :shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock:

I would wager including airforce one and personnel and $$$$ gifts to CR

$5 million

what say wagonner???
[/quote]

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/07/the-traveling-president/

It would pay you to read the entire article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_trips_made_by_the_President_of_the_United_States
For comparison Obama has taken 26 trips so far during his presidency with four more planned this year.
George Bush took 140 trips during years in office
Bill Clinton took 133 trips during years in office
George H W Bush took 60 trips during years in office
Ronald Reagan took 49 trips during years in office
Jimmy Carter took 31 trips during years in office
Gerald Ford took 19 trips during his year in office
Richard Nixon took 43 trips during his years in office
Lyndon Johnson took 27 trips during years in office
John Kennedy took 16 trips during years in office
Dwight Eisenhower took 37 trips during years in office
Harry Truman took 6 trips during his years in office
Franklin Roosevelt took 52 trips during his years in office

Those who criticize the cost of Obama’s flights do not want you to know that George W. Bush spent at least $20 million taxpayer dollars just on flights to his ranch in Crawford.
[/quote]

Next question….

Under which of these presidents did the (acknowledged) National Debt increase the most?

We’ll ignore the debt to the SSA and Medicare programs just this once… since that opens up a whole other debate.[/quote]

Obama $6.5 trillion vs $6.3 trillion for all the presidents’ before him. We are doomed I tell ya. We are all doomed!:roll:

[jmcbuilder]

Doing the nation’s business has a cost and this trip will cost plenty. I’m worried about what he is going to give away.

Kwhite, your share is higher than $.10. Only half of working taxpayers will contribute, and don’t forget about the interest on the borrowed money for the trip.

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”waggoner41″][quote=”davidd”]anyone want to take a gander as to how much this whole trip with the U.S. king will cost the american taxpayer???

i avoid saying names because in case secret service is tailing this forum :shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock:

I would wager including airforce one and personnel and $$$$ gifts to CR

$5 million

what say wagonner???
[/quote]

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/07/the-traveling-president/

It would pay you to read the entire article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_trips_made_by_the_President_of_the_United_States
For comparison Obama has taken 26 trips so far during his presidency with four more planned this year.
George Bush took 140 trips during years in office
Bill Clinton took 133 trips during years in office
George H W Bush took 60 trips during years in office
Ronald Reagan took 49 trips during years in office
Jimmy Carter took 31 trips during years in office
Gerald Ford took 19 trips during his year in office
Richard Nixon took 43 trips during his years in office
Lyndon Johnson took 27 trips during years in office
John Kennedy took 16 trips during years in office
Dwight Eisenhower took 37 trips during years in office
Harry Truman took 6 trips during his years in office
Franklin Roosevelt took 52 trips during his years in office

Those who criticize the cost of Obama’s flights do not want you to know that George W. Bush spent at least $20 million taxpayer dollars just on flights to his ranch in Crawford.
[/quote]

I see your wikipedia and raise you, the facts you put out there are a bit off…..53 trips my friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidential_trips_made_by_Barack_Obama

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”jmcbuilder”]Doing the nation’s business has a cost and this trip will cost plenty. I’m worried about what he is going to give away.

Kwhite, your share is higher than $.10. Only half of working taxpayers will contribute, and don’t forget about the interest on the borrowed money for the trip.[/quote]

I realize this all too painfully JMC…..I was trying to make myself feel good with my charitable offer, thanks for crushing my dream…..

[waggoner41]

[quote=”imxploring”]

Next question….

Under which of these presidents did the (acknowledged) National Debt increase the most?

We’ll ignore the debt to the SSA and Medicare programs just this once… since that opens up a whole other debate.[/quote]

We can take a look at two web sites that will give insight to when the debt was created.

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
http://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/spending_chart_1940_2018USp_14s1li011mcn_H0f_Accumulated_Gross_Federal_Debt

Note in the second web site, “U.S. government debt” that just after WW II the debt amounted to 121.96% of GDP. That debt was paid down every year at a rate of 2 1/2% per year until 1981 when it stood at 31.82% of GDP.
The years 1996 to 2001 were the only years since 1981 in which the debt to GDP was reduced.

The figures are extrapolated out to 2018.

Debt to GDP is expected to peak in 2014 and slowly be reduced thereafter.

[waggoner41]

[quote=”davidd”]anyone want to take a gander as to how much this whole trip with the U.S. king will cost the american taxpayer???

i avoid saying names because in case secret service is tailing this forum :shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock:

I would wager including airforce one and personnel and $$$$ gifts to CR

$5 million

what say wagonner???
[/quote]

Knowing the increase in security required by the Bush after 9/11 is still in play I don’t think the $5 million is out of line.

Fact is, it isn’t the cost of his trip to the taxpayers that bothers me. It pales next to the economic affect on Costa Rica.

[davidd]

sweikert925

how can you compare a trip to Hawaii with a trip to a foreign country??

they had at least 50 secret service personal for 2 weeks before just doing all the prep work.

and all the extra military helicopters, etc

so I would think its going to cost a heck of alot more than 4 million.

sweikert925 you sure are a bit naive my friend. do you get out of the country much??

EDIT: I wanted to point out that when ever the gov spends your Tax money Sweikert like you stated it is many times multiple highers than lets say a private firm that was truly rooted in fiscal responsibility like profit/loss

these guys spend money like its water because its not their money its Sweikerts money LOL

[quote=”sweikert925″]OK, I should have done some additional research before posting the above. Apparently Air Force One costs about $180,000 per hour to operate according to some new sources such as this: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/obamas-hawaii-vacation-costing-taxpayers-4-million/

(I should have known that anything the Pentagon is in charge of was going to be 20 times as expensive as it would otherwise be).

However that article calculates the cost of a 20 day trip to Hawaii at $4 million. Mexico/Costa Rica is closer to Washington and this trip was only 3 days so I’m assuming this trip was less than half the cost of the Hawaii trip detailed above.[/quote]

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