Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
He po'e ho'opiha wa'a
What? You didn't spend your Christmas Eve playing golf for 5 hrs. on a Marine base in Hawaii then going out for Japanese food and returning to a rented villa in Kailua?
I guess you aren't the Change we've all been hoping for.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/obama-goes-golfing-on-day-one-of-hawaii-vacation/2011/12/24/gIQAwtHKGP_blog.html
I guess you aren't the Change we've all been hoping for.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/obama-goes-golfing-on-day-one-of-hawaii-vacation/2011/12/24/gIQAwtHKGP_blog.html
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
It's Mofficial
We here at The Sandwich Shop have tried to avoid ad hominem attacks on members of the President's family but things with his wife are getting out of hand.
Reports are now surfacing that the former attorney and hospital eviction specialist has cost the American taxpayer over $10 million on vacations. It seems she's averaged 42 vacation days a year since the election and, while the Obamas supply some of the money for their trips, the rest of us are on the hook for the transport and, of course, the security.
Take the most recent vacation, for example: this year's jaunt to the Vineyard. Seems it wasn't convenient for her to travel with the President, so she followed 4 hrs. later, on another jumbo jet, with another security detail. Once ensconced, everything is first class, and if a shopping trip means shutting down part of the island to everyone else, well, lese majeste.
(Now to some extent, this wallowing in privilege is not strictly a Democrat thing. When W was in the White House he and Laura were modest in their spending, but both Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld bought property on the Eastern Shore near St. Michaels, MD, where they blocked off airspace and closed down restaurants on a whim.)
We here in NJ are more than a little familiar with the phenomenon of Dem politicians living a lot higher on the hog than their constituents. Former Mayor Sharpe James of Newark - a city so impoverished and corrupt that the Feds took over the Housing Authority and the state took over the schools - was paid $250,000 a year, had several city vehicles, a city credit card and regularly traveled on the city expense account as far afield as Rio de Janeiro. The former mayor of working class Linden, NJ, John Gregorio, demanded and received a customized Cadillac with $10,000 in upgrades for no other reason than he wanted to drive it. When he was finally forced from office the car was sold at wholesale.
And just as the First Lady had a six-figure job created especially for her in at a Chicago hospital, NJ is rife with politicos who hold down no-show jobs, wangle exclusive pension deals, build up huge "campaign" funds that they raid for personal reasons and, in the most recent scandal, hold lucrative jobs in education while enrolling their kids in taxpayer-funded free lunch programs.
It only remains to be seen if Mrs. Obama's habits will be at all curbed by recent publicity regarding her spending. For the most part she has so far been given a free pass, but as the re-election becomes more and more problematic, that may change.
Reports are now surfacing that the former attorney and hospital eviction specialist has cost the American taxpayer over $10 million on vacations. It seems she's averaged 42 vacation days a year since the election and, while the Obamas supply some of the money for their trips, the rest of us are on the hook for the transport and, of course, the security.
Take the most recent vacation, for example: this year's jaunt to the Vineyard. Seems it wasn't convenient for her to travel with the President, so she followed 4 hrs. later, on another jumbo jet, with another security detail. Once ensconced, everything is first class, and if a shopping trip means shutting down part of the island to everyone else, well, lese majeste.
(Now to some extent, this wallowing in privilege is not strictly a Democrat thing. When W was in the White House he and Laura were modest in their spending, but both Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld bought property on the Eastern Shore near St. Michaels, MD, where they blocked off airspace and closed down restaurants on a whim.)
We here in NJ are more than a little familiar with the phenomenon of Dem politicians living a lot higher on the hog than their constituents. Former Mayor Sharpe James of Newark - a city so impoverished and corrupt that the Feds took over the Housing Authority and the state took over the schools - was paid $250,000 a year, had several city vehicles, a city credit card and regularly traveled on the city expense account as far afield as Rio de Janeiro. The former mayor of working class Linden, NJ, John Gregorio, demanded and received a customized Cadillac with $10,000 in upgrades for no other reason than he wanted to drive it. When he was finally forced from office the car was sold at wholesale.
And just as the First Lady had a six-figure job created especially for her in at a Chicago hospital, NJ is rife with politicos who hold down no-show jobs, wangle exclusive pension deals, build up huge "campaign" funds that they raid for personal reasons and, in the most recent scandal, hold lucrative jobs in education while enrolling their kids in taxpayer-funded free lunch programs.
It only remains to be seen if Mrs. Obama's habits will be at all curbed by recent publicity regarding her spending. For the most part she has so far been given a free pass, but as the re-election becomes more and more problematic, that may change.
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