Air Force One
| 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
two years and I've been doing it for about 8 months now.
Last
year (2010) Obama flew
in Air Force One 172 times, almost every other day.
White
House officials have been telling reporters in recent days that
the Democrat doesn't intend to hang around the White House quite
so much in 2011. They explain he wants to get out more
around the country because, as everyone knows, that midterm
election shellacking on Nov 2 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 673 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.
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 utterance every
11 waking hours. Aides indicate the "Real Good
Talker" believes we need more.
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 $100 million taxpayer dollars flying around in Air
Force One,
and probably another $100 million
on his entourage. Obama
is just another tin-pot dictator living lavishly at the expense of
his subjects.
And
we seniors have to "tighten our belts" because we aren't
getting a COLA again this year... and none last year!
THANKS
TO ALL WHO HELPED PUT THIS GREEDY WINDBAG IN OFFICE!!
BE
MORE CAREFUL NEXT TIME!!
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