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Why do I have to go to a British newspaper to discover the details of Michelle Obama's second junket this Spring (the first being a skiing trip to Aspen) ... this time to Cambodia and Japan ... with her daughters and assumed entourage ... see:
UK Daily Mail Story. Has the Obama administration stopped being transparent? Try it yourself with a Google search and see if you can discover such info in the U.S. media. (This article estimates that such Obama vacations have cost U.S. taxpayers over $40 million during their term in the White House.) The cover story for this taxpayer-funded all-expense-paid luxurious Asian vacation is to promote female education in these countries ... who can quibble with that? However, I strongly suspect that Japanese girls get a far better education than do their counterparts in the United States.
Perhaps the First Lady can next travel to Trenton, New Jersey to promote female education there? (And stay in a Motel 6?)
I really am sick of politicians of both parties taking vacations on the the taxpayers' dime and calling them trade-missions or fact-finding trips. Deval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts, particularly during his last years here, took many such sojourns costing millions ... see:
WCVB Story. May I suggest that, at the end of such junkets, these political leeches produce a public trip report of the facts that they uncovered or the specific trade that they accomplished. Of course then they will all hide behind the term "good will" mission ... and who can argue with that?
Me, that's who. How about you?
6 comments:
Going to the Daily Mail to get news is rather like slumming in the National Enquirer (go there, search Obama)... Revel in the impending $100M divorce, the love child, he's gay, he's does crack cocaine in the WH.
The cost of these trips is pumped up by the huge entourage. O takes along 500 hundred, W took 700 on several. That'll run up the hotel bills. Laura Bush traveled 212 days on trips to 73 countries. What did all that cost? Guess it was not outrageous...
While the total $44M is shocking you gotta ask whether that seems a lot when one jet fighter that will cost many multiples of that is not even wanted by the military. -- saint
My primary point was that the American media seems to be suddenly covering up for Michelle ... possible because she spent $220K on two nights of hotel bills in China last year. I don't think that Laura Bush spent that much on hotels in her five trips to Africa.
Who among us, if able to get away with it, would not travel on someone else's dime? For the record, Michelle's trip was in the mainstream news yesterday, she was visiting Cambodia where the education of girls is apparently low priority. And gee, I missed your screed about Aaron Shock. Oh I forgot, he's not a lefty.
I was referring about the details ... other than the press release sheet ... about the trip. Who went? What did it cost? etc.
And Aaron Schock, like most conservatives caught in a bit of mischief, had the good sense to resign. Somehow liberals seldom do ...
Is it possible we could fix both problems?
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