Obama's $600,000,000 Passage to India
Only four years ago, New York Magazine was touting the implausibility of seeing New York City on a pittance of $10. a day.
Short of eating rat and Central Park squirrel meat and wearing out at least 2 pair of shoes, that figure was an unlikely pipe dream.
Two hundred million dollars a day, whether in New York or Mumbai, (formerly Bombay), would be a whole different story. That’s the amount our gadabout president plans to spend on his passage to India which starts this week.
That would be about 8,872,013,244.8 rupees.
Now, one wouldn’t expect the nation’s commander-in-chief to eat rat for the 3 or so days he will be conferring and vacationing and consulting and vacationing and meeting and vacationing in the Republic of India, sometimes known as Hindustan. Nor would anyone expect him and his entourage to stay at the Indian equivalent of a Red Roof Inn or travel around in Tata Indigos. Nor would we expect him to travel solo.
However, considering the economic straits America is in, even after “Recovery Summer,” not to mention the “shellacking” Obama and his Democrats took on Election Day, are 3,000 travel quests, (including Michelle, Sasha, and Malia, plus 200 White House staff and 150 journalists), 40 planes, 30 sniffer dogs, 6 armored vehicles including the Cadillac Barackmobile, and 3 Marine One choppers really necessary?
The plot thickens: . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2493)
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