The $200 million dollar per day myth - DEBUNKED

Media like Fox News drives me nuts! They are always releasing stories that are so one sided. The media gets paid off much to often in the US. On top of that people are so gullible! Why would you not research something that sounded weird that you heard on the news?

We all know Huffington is such a reliable source too, completely unbiased. But what is the purpose of the trip, is this just another vacation? That's what people are so pissed about. Like Michelle's Spain trip while he to a trip out west. It was reported she paid for the expenses from her own money - I doubt she pulled out the visa card to pay for the fuel for the air force to fly her and forty of her friends and staffers over there. I don't think she told the secret service she wouldn't need her entourage. It's things like that, repeatedly, that turn people off and are so willing to believe that the Obama's are spending tax payer money like kids in a candy store. And how do we know that the 200 mil figure reported by the Indian paper wasn't what the Indian Government is paying each day for them to be there?

How could you possibly spend 200 million a day? That's what anyone with a brain would be asking itself. But an interesting fact in the article is... 190 million a day in Afghanistan for 9 years. Add to that the war in Iraq. And you wonder why your country is broke? The terrorists did a lot more than destroy the WTC. They destroyed you economically, which was their real objective all along.

This number is just a little off if you look at some of the facts on 34 battleships even if he isn't using that many as I said in another post it is unlikely as well an aircraft carrier group would be able to protect him with the ships in that group as he would also be able to stay on an aircraft carrier where the president actually has a place to sleep that is the nicest the Navy has to offer. Also a carrier group has the experience to defend the president and do a good job at it. As for the cost $200 Million that isn't a really high number I mean the "wars" have cost us $1.103 Trillion and rising. Also the to Operate a Naval ship is expensive but not near enough to make it $200 Million and the cost of the Navy is already paid for through the Department of Defenses earning so that would mean the $200 Million couldn't be including Navy Equipment or wages of the Navy men at sea or even the cost of running the ships as those are all paid for by the taxpayers whether the president is taking a trip on them or not. Same with Airforce 1 for that matter we already pay for that so the president and congressmen can at anytime use Military transport at anytime for any reason. It is already paid for. So this $200 Million would have to come from just the Obama staff which are paid whether he is leaving the country or not so this doesn't make any sense why it would really matter to someone how much it cost because we have already paid for it with our tax dollars whether he is using the money or not its is being spent or has already been spent ;). But $200 million per day for lets just say the number came from the Washington people that are non-military okay just for a second. So lets SS, and his staffers and well the President so the President earns $400,000 a year so that is $33,333 so it cost us $1,111 per day. He is going their for so lets say a week thats $7777 for a week. Lets through out a number for the Hotel $100,000 for a week. The cabinet to the president gets paid $193,400 per year so that means they cost $537 per day. $3759 so lets say he takes the whole group with him total for that $56,385 That would come to a total of $164,162 No where near that number as well the only thing I don't know for sure is the cost of a whole Hotel. But most of the Expenses are already paid for by us as the President uses the Military to transport him. We would need to spend 500 Billion plus on our Military if we had to spend more just to move the highest person in the Military around. I mean really that would mean an Admiral would cost us a bunch of Money for having a whole fleet he moves around with. And what about the Admiral of the whole navy would we charge the whole navy for moving him around every time he needed to go somewhere? Or The Commander of the Airforce add him and the people he travels with if he had to go to Germany to the USAF base their? IF we started to do that then Wars would be to expensive as we would be thinking their is a cost in raising those forces when their are cost in moving forces of any kind they are already being paid for the group the President is going with is being ordered by the President to port in India. If he wasn't they would of been ordered to go somewhere else so we are already paying for the Naval Fleet. Didn't cost us extra for them to make a stop in India.

I suspect Ariana will go back to being a republican when it's popular. Sorry, fact checking with a biased gossip column doesn't count.

This is catch-22 politics at its finest. Obama plans a trip. People supposed to ask then ask how much it will cost. No answer or the runaround is given. A figure pops up, and some take it as gospel because they can't get an answer. They think, "WOW! No wonder they're keeping silent about it; it's going to cost that much!" So the people supposed to ask then ask yet again. Again, no answer or the runaround is given. Then it drops with the drama of solving the Kennedy assassination that it's all a sham - the $200 million/day number isn't right and those mean, cruel, stupid, ignorant Obama bashers just wanted to criticize the President. It's like they want this stuff to happen. They, of course, being you, the HuffPo, the White House, and anyone else playing the long con for a BOOYA moment to rub somebody's nose in sht. If poor, sensitive President Obama wants to avoid those vicious and racist and ignorant right-wing attack dogs, here's an idea - show the transparency promised and--either you or your exorbitant staff--answer questions when asked. Rocket science? I think not.

Your source is left wing garbage, but that doesn't really matter because I read about this yesterday. President' Bush's chief of staff said the $200 million figure is a complete lie. He said when Bush made a similar trip with 1300 people (I think Obama has 2000) it was more like $1.6 million. It's still a high number, but not even close to what this Indian media source said. I'm wondering if the source that originally reported that meant Indian Rupees instead of dollars. 200 million rupees is about 4.5 million dollars and that sounds closer to the real number.

Actually, everyone i saw on Fox was calling the 200 million a day figure as "without basis", "rumor", "unfounded", "likely not true", "exaggeration", "speculation" and other words and phrases equating it to nonsense. In fact, the first question I heard asked of Gibbs at a press conference about it was from CNN.

The people of India must not realize that Obama is the messiah, and just like he promised to stop the oceans rise, heal all the sick, etc., he can certainly stop the coconuts from falling out of the trees. In case you haven't heard, all the coconuts have been removed from the trees along his route. Several people are injured, some even killed, by falling coconuts each year.