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When will the spending stop??

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angellous_evangellous

Guest

Well, I suppose that the spending will stop --- when China is no longer willing to finance our debt.

We're heading the way of Greece - we're going to have to raise taxes and lower entitlement programs AND war spending.

Let's just hope we don't get a warmongering Republican in 2012.... that must be the reason why the Myan calender ends in 2012... another Republican President brings epic destruction to the world.
 

justbehappy

Active Member
Well, she was invited to spend some time with the Spainish head of state, and the only way she could get there was in this manner.
In an expensive hotel, though? Not necessary. If they wanted to stay at an expensive hotel they could've afford it themselves. The president makes half a million a year.
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
In an expensive hotel, though? Not necessary. If they wanted to stay at an expensive hotel they could've afford it themselves. The president makes half a million a year.

That's nothing compared to what they could be making if the Obamas were not in politics.

Heads of state travel, and they do so first class. Nothing wrong with that.

Again, we're looking at pennies instead of dollars. I suspect that the entire trip costs less than one smart bomb.
 

justbehappy

Active Member
Well, I suppose that the spending will stop --- when China is no longer willing to finance our debt.

We're heading the way of Greece - we're going to have to raise taxes and lower entitlement programs AND war spending.

Let's just hope we don't get a warmongering Republican in 2012.... that must be the reason why the Myan calender ends in 2012... another Republican President brings epic destruction to the world.
Actually, they wouldn't take office until 2013. Obama will be in office the entire year of 2012 :yes:
 

justbehappy

Active Member
That's nothing compared to what they could be making if the Obamas were not in politics.

Heads of state travel, and they do so first class. Nothing wrong with that.

Again, we're looking at pennies instead of dollars. I suspect that the entire trip costs less than one smart bomb.

But isn't it the Obamas that always tell US to make sacrifices?? Being first lady and having all of the amazing oppurtunities she has is enough. She doesn't have to stay in one of the top 10 hotels in the world.
As a first lady, knowing the burden taxpayers already have, I would be more than happy to pay for my own hotel stay.
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
Actually, they wouldn't take office until 2013. Obama will be in office the entire year of 2012 :yes:

Well, it's good the world ends before Republicans take over (if they do in 2012).

The world will end to spare us from Republican nightmares. We will have already committed the great sin, and will be punished accordingly.
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
But isn't it the Obamas that always tell US to make sacrifices?? Being first lady and having all of the amazing oppurtunities she has is enough. She doesn't have to stay in one of the top 10 hotels in the world.
As a first lady, knowing the burden taxpayers already have, I would be more than happy to pay for my own hotel stay.

I would be concentrating on issues that have substance.

This hotel stuff detracts from what we should be addressing.
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
Ha, to say that Republicans are worse than modern Democrats is the biggest joke ever.

(Republicans refuse to take responsibility for how destructive their ideologies were under the Bush administration, who collapsed our economy through deregulation and tax cuts for corporations and destroyed our credibility by providing false information for a war that's costing us a trillion dollars.)

Considering that, complaining about what Michelle Obama did in Spain is utterly insignificant.
 

Smoke

Done here.
Fannie Mae narrows loss, but asks for more aid
We're talking about loans, so what's the problem? I mean, it's not like the money ****** away on no-bid contracts for companies owned by big Republican donors, which is gone forever, or the revenue lost in the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.
 

Smoke

Done here.
Not with this administration :D

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First lady under fire for her glitzy Spanish vacation
What wrong with that? If I could afford it, my *** would be on a Spanish vacation, too.
 

Willamena

Just me
Premium Member
Spending money is the only thing that politicians know how to do.
Ideally, if they spend it on us, that's pretty much all they're required to do.

But I think that it's more than a little smug to say that Mrs. Obama "is modern day Marie Antoinette."

This little fiaso is nothing. It's likely that Palin spent more on her clothing than Michelle spent on this trip.
Yup.
 

Smoke

Done here.
In an expensive hotel, though? Not necessary. If they wanted to stay at an expensive hotel they could've afford it themselves. The president makes half a million a year.
So what? She's paying her own expenses. You guys get your panties in a knot over absolutely nothing. I never heard anybody suggesting that the Reagans or Bushes ought to be staying in youth hostels or pup tents when they traveled.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
It won't. Our government has been spending before it was official, and has been in debt ever since.

What wrong with that? If I could afford it, my *** would be on a Spanish vacation, too.
I agree. People who complain about her vacation for the most part I reckon are either jealous, or just ******** to *****. Regardless, there paychecks come from the tax payers, so personally financed or embezzled we pay for it either way. And as far as security goes, they have those everywhere. And I can see the need for some extra in Europe.
 
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Darkness

Psychoanalyst/Marxist
Few people realise that what we spend now on stimulus is almost meaningless for the long-run fiscal abyss we face. I could write a paragraph or two on it, but what are they chances anybody is willing to listen.

When the current administration finally digs us out the ditch that Bush has dug for us.

Right now the Administration is sitting in their Caterpillars drinking beer and soda. The Democrats are bourgeois. They are simply less bourgeois than the Republicans, so we have to vote for them.
 

Alceste

Vagabond

OMG - Spain is hardly an extravagant place for a holiday, and $500-$2000 a night is pretty standard for a 5 star hotel anywhere in the world. Banff Springs Hotel, for example, in boring, cold, unglamorous Canada, starts at $449.

Why shouldn't the US president's wife have a holiday? My own mum went to Switzerland and the South of France this summer with friends, and she's just a kindergarten teacher. Granted, she didn't stay in 5 star hotels, but then again she's not the WIFE OF THE FREAKING PRESIDENT OF THE FREAKING UNITED STATES.

Where do they think she ought to stay? A hostel? A sleeping bag on the beach?

Slow news day, I'm thinking.
 

Alceste

Vagabond
So what? She's paying her own expenses. You guys get your panties in a knot over absolutely nothing. I never heard anybody suggesting that the Reagans or Bushes ought to be staying in youth hostels or pup tents when they traveled.


But those families aren't... you know... ;)
 
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