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Post by kabic on Feb 21, 2017 14:00:11 GMT -6
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Post by kabic on Feb 21, 2017 14:05:11 GMT -6
Doing a little bit more research Trumps Florida trips are cheaper, but he is making more of them....
Each trip to Mar-a-Lago could cost an estimated $3 million or more
The first family’s Christmas vacation in 2015 cost taxpayers more than $4.8 million, according to the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which obtained Secret Service records after filing Freedom of Information Act requests and a lawsuit.
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Post by mclovin on Feb 21, 2017 15:26:31 GMT -6
freepress266.wordpress.com/2017/02/18/us-president-vacation-and-protection-spending-obama-vs-trump/"This brings the low estimate of spending for President Donald Trump’s vacation and family protection after one month in office to $24.6 million dollars- roughly 29% that Obama cost tax payers with overall vacation/family movement over his 8-year term. At this current rate if nothing changes, it would cost federal taxpayers $2.361 BILLION DOLLARS for President trump to vacation and his family to live in New York. That is a 2778% (two-thousand seven-hundred and seventy-eight percent) per day spending increase."
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Post by sd51555 on Feb 21, 2017 15:58:23 GMT -6
I don't care if it's ten billion. I'm more concerned with him stopping the invasion, fixing the health insurance catastrophe, and getting the millennials out of their parents basements. If the country goes down the shitter, a ten percent improvement in the first family vacation budget won't do much to make me feel better.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Feb 21, 2017 16:01:37 GMT -6
I saw this on another site, but Michele Obama's school lunch program cost us $16 billion to implement, and in many districts 25-50% of it went in the garbage because the kids hated it. So that is billions wasted!
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Post by biglakebass on Feb 21, 2017 16:27:50 GMT -6
I know a lunch lady at the middle school here in Big Lake.
There is a breakfast and lunch program for "the needy".
All summer long based on the size of school enrollment(or some govt determined formula), they were required to make X number of breakfasts and Y number of lunches every day all summer long.
She said the same thing. Easily 50+% of the food went in the trash on a daily basis.
The other thing she said is a waste is this effort to try and force kids to eat "healthy". Again, all the healthy stuff goes in the trash can and the kids get home and devour a bag of doritos. Very very little of the veggies and fruit get eaten. Its all paid for, and all thrown right in the trash can.
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Post by mclovin on Feb 21, 2017 17:04:57 GMT -6
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Post by smsmith on Feb 21, 2017 17:05:52 GMT -6
Trump isn't a conservative, nor a Republican (IMHO).
He may or may not get some good things accomplished. One of those things will not include being fiscally conservative.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Feb 21, 2017 18:26:03 GMT -6
You guys are watching to much CNN!
Who gives a Fuck!
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Post by Reagan on Feb 21, 2017 21:26:14 GMT -6
That website has a tab called liberal nation rising.
Sounds like a very fair and balanced website. I'm soooooo sure they were quick to criticize king Obama whenever they could.
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Post by kabic on Feb 22, 2017 23:20:57 GMT -6
Mu point was we criticized Obama on his many trips to Hawaii, I'm not giving Donald a pass on his slightly cheaper but more frequent trips to Florida.
Is it really that hard to stay in DC and do your fucking job?
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Post by Freeborn on Feb 23, 2017 6:08:32 GMT -6
One month in office and this is what you write, seriously? Where is the evidence of him being a war monger? At this moment the rest of the country is seeing the left (citizens, media, congress) behave so poorly that if it continues they will damage their brand and they will lose the mid term elections. Just because the media and the left wants to focus on the rights of the few (like today's LGBT issue) at the expense of the many is nothing more than a left agenda and media hype. At this time with how the left and media is behaving they have zero credibility with the public and their approval ratings are plummeting. Trump may hang himself in the long run but to date I would not rate him based on the lefts false narratives.
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Post by mclovin on Feb 23, 2017 9:39:23 GMT -6
Just to get this out there. I hate government and all politicians, regardless of party. I am a "live and let live" type of person. Don't like abortions? Then don't have one. Don't like sucking dicks? Then don't suck them. Don't like welfare? Then take it away from the farmers at the same time you take it away from the black people. I dislike hypocrisy and I feel very strongly that all politicians are out to make backroom deals to line their pockets, not create policy that "Makes America Great". I believe with every fiber of my being that politicians love to keep us arguing about fetuses, gay stuff, bathrooms, etc., so they can continue, Dems and Reps alike, to steal our money while we argue. It makes very little difference to me if I have less money in my pocket because a Democrat gave it to a black, gay immigrant or because a republican broke my union, and lets every major corporation monopolize industries and collude to fix prices. Either way Donald Trump isn't going to do a damn thing to make my life better, just as Hillary wouldn't have. However, I do believe that Trump is a narcissistic, barely literate moron that could start a nuclear war with Putin after he releases the pee-pee tapes. theweek.com/articles/681360/president-trump-pitiless-warmongerAnd if you'd actually looked through the links I provided you'd be extremely concerned with Trump's ties to Russia. Russia is bad, Russia has always been bad. Russia does bad things. Very Bad things. The worst things. And our president and his people are way too cozy with them.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Feb 23, 2017 10:22:03 GMT -6
Russia is bad, but the US ain't no bunch of saints either!
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Post by Bwoods11 on Feb 23, 2017 10:25:42 GMT -6
By the way his vacation spending is way down the list of things I'm concerned about. docs.google.com/document/d/1RbpBxJ3QNyvts_w16UcSSGeH7cSrXK9U3wIq0OOq-Xs/editfinance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-lawyer-told-4-different-161705345.htmlwww.inquisitr.com/3974758/donald-trump-russia-steve-schwarzman-vladimir-putin-rosneft-steele-dossier-bribe-blackstone/I know y'all love yourselves some Donald but I believe there's too much smoke for there not to be any fire on this one. Shame on any of us for thinking a billionaire actually cared about anything other than making more billions for himself. On the bright side, after he goes completely off the deep end and we end up in a Beyond Thunderdome wasteland of nuclear fallout, we can start over and make sure we have term limits in our new constitution. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I will predict that nothing comes of the Russia-Trump love fest that Liberals have been preaching. Keep in mind, The Clintons were involved in a sale of uranium to Russia (large amounts) and received over 100 million to their foundation as obvious payback for it. The left denies it, but it was uncovered, by the far left--NY Times and they do not deny it, and nothing happened to them, they walk the streets. I also predict no nuclear issues, or even major warfare conflicts with other countries. My past prediction of a Trump victory early in 16.... every state in the election correctly, except Nevada and Wisconsin.... can be verified by past posts on Quality Habitat Site (now gone) LOL...
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