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President Obama and his family will be going to Africa later this month. But the trip won't be cheap; it's expected to cost American taxpayers $60 to $100 million, according to the Washington Post.
"When President Obama makes his first extended trip to sub-Saharan Africa later this month, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe won’t be taking any chances. Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of emergency," reports the Post.
"Military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with sheets of bullet-proof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family will stay. Fighter jets will fly in shifts giving 24-hour coverage over the president’s airspace so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close.
"The extraordinary security provisions — which will cost the government tens of millions of dollars — are outlined in a confidential internal planning do ent obtained by The Washington Post. While the preparations appear to be in line with similar travels in the past, the do ent offers an unusual glimpse into the colossal efforts to protect the U.S. commander-in-chief on trips abroad."
After the paper questioned the costs of a planned family safari, the White House nixed the plan. "The president and first lady had also planned to take a Tanzanian safari as part of the trip, which would have required the president’s special counter-assault team to carry sniper rifles with high-caliber rounds that could neutralize cheetahs, lions or other animals if they became a threat, according to the planning do ent. But the White House canceled the safari on Wednesday following inquiries from The Washington Post about the trip’s purpose and expense, according to a person familiar with the decision."
The paper adds, "Obama’s trip could cost the federal government $60 million to $100 million based on the costs of similar African trips in recent years, according to one person familiar with the journey who was not authorized to speak for attribution. The Secret Service planning do ent, which was provided to The Post by a person who is concerned about the amount of resources necessary for the trip, does not specify costs."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...on_735195.html
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damn those white house tours sure are expensive.
Well, that much in vehicles, it is obviously more than a "family trip."
I take many opportunities to trash Obama, but this isn't one of them. Looks like SOP to me, for any president.
He's going back to where he was born... gotta visit a lot of family and friends, tbh
LOL. This is pretty much disgusting. Our country is so ed.
Why not go to the Grand Canyon or to Canada?
He probably feels safer, away from angry Americans...
Typical responses.
You mean the ones that gave him a second term 6 moths ago?
LOL...
What's he going to do with six moths?
Well, he's set for the next 3.5 years. Let's hope he does a lot more safaris and much less politicking...
lol weekly standard
April 19th, 2010 (Published in Print Issue):
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articl...-morass?page=2"The two main reasons oil and other fossil fuels became environmentally incorrect in the 1970s—air pollution and risk of oil spills—are largely obsolete. Improvements in drilling technology have greatly reduced the risk of the kind of offshore spill that occurred off Santa Barbara in 1969. There hasn’t been a major drilling related spill since then, though shipping oil by tanker continues to be risky, as the Exxon Valdez taught us. To fear oil spills from offshore rigs today is analogous to fearing air travel now because of prop plane crashes in the 1950s."
April 20th, 2010 (Deepwater Horizon explodes, kills 11, begins to dump 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf):
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