All the support agency's were being paid anyway weather they worked or just hung around. Look at it as a conduit for repatriating tax dollars.
Going to a country who's loyalty is questionable, surrounded by the Secret Service, ultimately dependent on foreign security, every word uttered is scrutinized can hardly be called a vacation. That's just a crappy job.
Ya know the problem with complaints like this, no one hears them when their guy is in office. This is part of the job. How much food can someone eat? It must not be much of a job considering how they all seem to age (except Cheney) What would YOU have our President be driven in? A microbus?
This beat up BO gets old Frank.
not supporting his trips...but the amounts are pure bs....the people paid to ferry and protect the president get paid even if they stay home....
and the amount I have read is 80 million....it is all bs....paid government workers are paid no matter the circumstance.
Wait, wait, you don't understand. First is his high school reunion, then a visit to the mud hut he was born in, then he has to check on his relatives and their goats, then a quick trip to make sure his real birth certificate is still buried and finally, a dinner to celebrate his kingship in the U.S. Only one that ain't going is the dog and only because the ASPCA and the Humane Society would get pissed when he ended up as the main course. So all this costs money. Maybe we;ll get lucky and he'll decide to stay there.