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December 26, 2012
Obama To Spend $7.2 Million of Taxpayer Money For Fiscal Cliff Photo-Op
As Rodney Dangerfield said, "He really cares. About what I have no idea."
So he took a 10-hour flight from DC to Hawaii last week, then he’ll take another back to DC Thursday. Once they pretend to make a deal, he’ll hop back on AF1 to resume playing golf, then will return in a couple of week for his lavish inaugural.
Once all this flying is done that’ll be around 40 hours travel at a cost of at least $180,000 an hour for a tab of $7.2 million. And that’s just to fly AF1, never mind all the other ancillary costs, which probably boosts the tab to a tidy $10 million or so.
Plus, as JWF notes, there's the additional cost for Michelle in Hawaii.