From The Daily Caller:
It cost taxpayers nearly a half-million dollars for first lady
Michelle Obama to travel to Spain in 2010, according to an analysis by Judicial Watch.
The right-leaning watchdog group estimated that the trip cost
$467,585. It based its analysis on documents obtained from the U.S.
Secret Service and the U.S. Air Force.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said it took his group “two
years and a lawsuit to get these documents out of the Obama
administration.”
“It is hypocritical for President Obama to fire GSA officials for
wasteful conference spending, while his family went on a luxury
vacation in the Costa del Sol Spain that cost taxpayers nearly half a
million dollars,” Fitton said.
Among the various travel costs, the group estimated — using the
Defense Department’s 2010 published hourly rates — that it cost the
government $199,323 to fly to Spain and back to the United States.
The New York Times reported
that those on the trip included the first lady, one of her daughters
and “two friends and four of their daughters, as well as a couple of
aides and a couple of advance staff members.”
Fitton’s group has previously disclosed the cost of sending the
first family on overseas trips. Its analysis indicated that it cost
$424,142 to fly the first family to South Africa and Botswana in 2011.
White House press secretary Jay Carney declined to comment on the report during a press briefing Thursday.
And, how much has Michelle Obama reimbursed the U.S. for the Spain and South Africa trip?
Did Michelle's friends and their kids pay for their expenses? If Michelle didn't reimburse the U.S. taxpayers, you could bet her friends didn't either.
If the GOP were smart, but they are not, they should be jumping all over this.
I think Michelle Obama feels she is owed these trips. After all, for a long time, she was not proud to be an American, so these trips are her payback for all of those years she suffered with low paying jobs, lack of education and living on welfare. (sarcasm,of course)
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