What Part Does He Not Understand???

I am aware every president needs to attend these meetings, but how many of them took 3000 people with them along with 34 war ships? Yes, he is going to the meetings, but by his own admission, he is going on vacation, too. I tend to read many magazines, and newspapers and watch different channels on television for differing views of the news. You really might want to do some research before pooh-poohing this jaunt and returning to the tired old saw of let's blame Bush. Bush did most of his 'giving' when we had an unemployment rate of 4.6%, and most folks still had homes. The upswing in the deficit came along with the Democrats taking over Congress (who runs the purse strings) in 2006. Bush tried to warn the Dems that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in serious trouble and should be checked into, but they, led by Barney Frank, ignored the facts, saying nothing was wrong. During Bush's terms, he not only had to deal with our country being attacked on our shores, but one of the worst hurricanes in many years, and going to war to stop us being attacked again. Legitimate reasons for spending. He succeeded in no more attacks, which is more than we can say in the last couple of years. We have been very fortunate, since at least three people attempting to bring bombs to our country have been stopped only because either the bombs didn't work or the carrier was too dumb to set it off. The last one was caught 17 minutes before exploding. Bush also tended to go to the meetings, stay maybe a day over and above the necessary time, and take the minimum entourage with him. His vacations were usually at his own ranch, thus saving money. He was also much more 'green' than our current president. If you check out the facts of Bush's ranch, you will find it has every ecological feature built in that was available at the time of building such as geothermal heat, a well, water catchers that clean up waste water and recycle it to water plants around the site, as well as rain water catchers. He even built the house of local limestone to preserve the trees. His 4000 sq. ft. house uses about 25% of the normal American home. Compared to Bush, our current president thinks he was given his own printing press when he came into office and he will soon be printing an additional trillion dollars and turning it into treasury bonds for other countries to buy. So, our dollar should drop in value once again.

I don't know haow many ships Bush took but like the current president he did not make those decissions. Those concerns are met by the folks doing National security. Bush took many over seas vacations after having meetings and once again no one vilified him for it. I will point out that most of Mr Bush's money to live the lifestyle he so enjoys was put in his pocket by Enron and the Carlyle group. The bottom line is until the main stream press quits discussing tripe like this we cannot have a conversation about policy's that are truly important.

The "Man-child" in the White House has tripled the deficit in less than two years in office. His policies have pushed unemployment to an unbearable limit, and he rejects every free market idea presented. The election was a sweeping mandate against the current regime. Not only on the national level, but 680 state seats were picked up by Republicans. The President also violated all Constitutional bounds by giving my money to banks and GM. He is a traitor and a thief. If the Republicans so much as flinch in his direction they will hear from the electorate and soon find themselves out of work also.

Bill O'Rielly announced on his show that the story was traced to an "Unnamed source in India". From what he found out is that the military and Secret Service are very closed mouth about the cost and measures they take to protect the President. I think the White House should have simply announced that the trip was similar to other Presidential trips abroad.