Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Why would anyone want to be president???

Obama family 'costs taxpayers $1.4BILLION per year'


The White House contains a movie theatre which is manned by projectionists 24 hours a day in case one of the family feels like a trip to the cinema.

And even the Obamas' dog Bo costs the taxpayer thousands of dollars - his handler is reportedly paid over $100,000 a year.

Another huge presidential outgoing comes in the form of staff members who can be appointed by the commander-in-chief at his own personal discretion.

226 members of Mr Obama's staff are apparently paid over $100,000 - and the President can increase their salaries at any time.

 But the amount of money  spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in.

Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4 billion spent on the Obama family last year is the “total cost of the presidency,” factoring the cost of the “biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever,” a 50 percent increase in the numbers of appointed czars and an Air Force One “running with the frequency of a scheduled air line.”

“There is no mechanism for anyone’s objection if a president were to pay his chief of staff $5,000,000 a year,” he told TheDC. “And nothing but a president’s conscience can dissuade him from buying his own reelection with use of some public money.”
Aside from a salary, the president gets a $50,000 a year expense account, a $100,000 travel account, $19,000 entertainment budget and an additional million for “unanticipated needs,” he notes.


I want to be president.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210323/Obama-family-costs-taxpayers-1-4BILLION-year.html

It's not just Obama, but he has taken it to a new level.


11 comments:

  1. Lou
    I trust you are not posting this as "Fact". A Brit newspaper with the author not properly identified or acknowledged in your post is well below your usual thoughtful accreditation.
    Suggest we treat the original article as the garbage it is.
    Cheers from Aussie

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    1. Well it's easy to look up the article, which by the way, was written by Alex Pappas for the Daily Caller.

      Most of the information came from a book called 'Presidential Perks Gone Royal' by Kent Gray, who estimates that in comparison to the $1.4 billion spent on our royal family last year, the British taxpayer spent only $57.8 million on their royal family.

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  2. Guess you didn't like the assertion:
    The staff:

    Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett
    Senior Advisor David Plouffe
    Executive Office of the President
    Other Advisory Boards


    The following entities exist within the Executive Office of the President:

    Council of Economic Advisers
    Council on Environmental Quality
    Executive Residence
    National Security Staff
    Office of Administration
    Office of Management and Budget
    Office of National Drug Control Policy
    Office of Science and Technology Policy
    Office of the United States Trade Representative
    Office of the Vice President
    White House Office

    In addition, the following entities exist within the White House Office:

    Domestic Policy Council
    Office of National AIDS Policy
    Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
    Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation
    White House Rural Council
    National Security Advisor
    National Economic Council
    Office of Cabinet Affairs
    Office of the Chief of Staff
    Office of Communications
    Office of the Press Secretary
    Media Affairs
    Research
    Speechwriting
    Office of Digital Strategy
    Office of the First Lady
    Office of the Social Secretary
    Office of Legislative Affairs
    Office of Management and Administration
    White House Personnel
    White House Operations
    Telephone Office
    Visitors Office
    Oval Office Operations
    Office of Presidential Personnel
    Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs
    Office of Public Engagement
    Council on Women and Girls
    Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
    Office of Urban Affairs
    Office of Scheduling and Advance
    Office of the Staff Secretary
    Presidential Correspondence
    Executive Clerk
    Records Management
    Office of the White House Counsel

    Office of the White House Counsel:
    Kathryn Ruemmler
    Leslie Kienan
    Kimberley Harris
    Steven Croley
    Chris Kang
    Position Title Special Assistant To The President And Senior Counsel To The President
    Compare Special Assistant To The President And Senior Counsel To The President
    Year 2012
    Salary $135,000


    And Chris also has a staff.

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  3. The office of management and Budget:

    OMB-WIDE SUPPORT OFFICES
    STATUTORY OFFICES
    General Counsel (395-5044)
    Office of Federal Financial Management (395-3895)
    Legislative Affairs (395-4790)
    Accountability, Performance, and Reporting Branch (395-3993)
    Strategic Planning & Communications (395-7254)
    Management and Operations Division (395-7250)
    Office of Federal Procurement Policy (395-5802)
    Economic Policy (395-7279)
    Office of E-Government & Information Technology (395-3018)
    Legislative Reference Division (395-4864)
    Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (395-4852)
    Economics, Science, Gen. Govt. Branch (395-3454)
    Food, Health, and Labor Branch (395-7340)
    Health, Education, Veterans & Social Programs Branch (395-7362)
    Information Policy Branch (395-3785)
    Resources, Defense, International Branch (395-6194)
    Natural Resources and Environment Branch (395-3084)
    Budget Review (395-4630)
    Statistical & Science Policy Branch (395-3093)
    Budget Analysis & Systems Division (395-6953)
    Transportation and Security Branch (395-7316)
    Budget Review & Concepts Division (395-4632)
    Performance and Personnel Management (395-5017)
    NATURAL RESOURCE PROGRAMS
    EDUCATION, INCOME MAINTENANCE AND
    HEALTH PROGRAMS
    GENERAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
    NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS
    (202) 395-3120
    LABOR PROGRAMS (202) 395-1475
    (202) 395-5178
    (202) 395-1217
    (202) 395-4657
    Energy, Science & Water Division (395-3404)
    Education, Income Maintenance, & Labor
    Health Division (395-4922)
    Transportation, Homeland, Justice &
    International Affairs Division (395-4770)
    Energy Branch (395-3634)
    Division (395-6150)
    Health & Human Services Branch (395-4922)
    Services Division (395-4892)
    State Branch (395-4580)
    Science & Space Branch (395-3480)
    Education Branch (395-5880)
    Medicaid Branch (395-4922)
    Transportation/GSA Branch (395-5704)
    Economics Affairs Branch (395-4944)
    Water and Power Branch (395-4590)
    Income Maintenance Branch (395-4686)
    Medicare Branch (395-4922)
    Homeland Security Branch (395-5090)
    National Security Division (395-3884)
    Natural Resources Division (395-4586)
    Labor Branch (395-3262)
    Public Health Branch (395-4922)
    Justice Branch (395-7241)
    Command, Control, Communications,
    Agriculture Branch (395-3446)
    Health Insurance, Data and Analysis Unit (395-4922)
    Housing,Treasury, & Commerce Div. (395-4516)
    Computers & Intelligence Branch (395-4802)
    Environment Branch (395-6827)
    Housing Branch (395-4610)
    Operations & Support Branch (395-3671)
    Interior Branch (395-4806)
    Treasury Branch (395-1092)
    Force Structure & Investment Branch (395-3879)
    Commerce Branch (395-3914)
    Veterans Affairs & Defense Health
    Branch (395-4500)
    EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
    Executive Associate Director
    RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OFFICES
    Deputy Director
    Deputy Director for Management
    Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (395-1809)
    Chief of Staff
    Director

    And there are people and staff behind every telephone number.






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  4. The White House staff is larger than many businesses in the US.

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    1. Astounding. And yet the president to date has not identified even one agency or program to trim.

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    2. The above offices are his offices and employees. They are no relates to the rest of the government agencies which are so familiar to everyone like the EPA, Energy Department, education which have congressional oversight.

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  5. Not to mention the more than 70 agencies that have units having firearms and arrest authority. As of 2008 the federal police numbered over 120,000. That is one officer for about every 2500 people.... while we are represented at the rate of about 1 federal level representative to every 700,000 people..

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  6. A $1.4-billion president has a defense secretary with a private plane to fly him home every weekend, and a chair of the “White House Council on Women and Girls” with her own Secret Service detail, and all of them ever more detached from the rhythms of American life. In the wake of the Cartagena hooker scandal, the Secret Service with predictable obtuseness imposed a new rule prohibiting agents from having “foreign nationals” in their rooms. The salient fact surely wasn’t that they were “foreign” but that they were hookers. Yet now, at the luxury Moana Surfrider resort, Obama staffers passing through the lobby and bumping into minor princesses and arch-duchesses staying in the cheap rooms on the lower floors won’t even be able to ask them up to their federally mandated ocean-view suites for tips on deficit reduction. In the Brokest Nation in History, it would be unreasonable to expect the president to pretend to have a regular all-American family Christmas for less than five million bucks.

    As Ben Franklin famously said: “A republic, if you can keep it in the style to which it’s become accustomed.”

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  7. The brokest nation can not afford not to treat the president to a fun vacation even though many Americans cannot afford to cross the street.

    Happy holidays to our great leader, hope he gets some rest in Hawaii more able to play a better round of gold when he returns.

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  8. Of course while it is all well and good to talk about these excesses... nobody, Democrat or Republican wants to genuinely talk about these government extravagances. Do you honestly believe that Romney would have changed, in a tangible way, much of the Whitehouse and governmental waste. Only one person talked about those excesses and what they intended to do about them... and he was marginalized by his own party and totally ignored by the other..... These problems will not be solved without a national leader that has integrity.... It is obvious by the last several (6 or 7 at least) elections that America does not do integrity....

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