US to Spend $200 Million Per Day on Obama's Mumbai Visit

I am sure Jack Bauer is with the President.

Pineguy wrote: As you may or may not know, the White House has NEVER released these numbers because they involved presidential security. This has been the case through various presidents of both parties. It is the policy of the Secret Service.

What's interesting to me is these questions of costs never came up when your glorious leader, George Bush was president and traveling abroad. Why is that?

Another thing that seems to have escaped your remarkable intelligence -- any military used for security are being paid anyway, regardless of where they are stationed.

If this is such a big concern to you, why not contact one of your favorite conservative politicians and ask them to look into it. So far, the only outrage over this appears to be coming from right-wing Bloggers and Neanderthal right-wing posters trying to stir up something.

You are correct to a point. Our base pay and allowances such as BAQ BAH pretty much stay the same, where it changes is during the deployments. White House comms, (worked with them) and all other military when traveling draw per diem. Depending on location going to depends on amount of per diem. So that cost gets figured in as does the fuel costs, communications cost,etc. But I still seriously doubt the 200 million a day.

That's because it's an outright lie...

LadyJazzer wrote: Well, seeing as how they're announcing "trade deals worth billions", I think we can assume that it was enough of a priority trip to BRING MONEY BACK INTO the US... But then, you guys are more interested in bashing him than acknowledging that he did something to improve the trade deficit.

Oh, wait.... That hasn't shown up on FauxNews yet...so it must not be true.

Oh you are right about one thing, its fun to bash Obama! Wasn't it fun for you to bash Bush?

http://www.thehindu.com/news/internatio ... 604327.ece

The White House further clarified that U.S. agencies would apply the criteria and revise the lists of munitions and dual use items that are controlled for export so that they are “tiered” to distinguish the types of items that should be subject to stricter or more permissive levels of control for different destinations, end-uses, and end-users.

Obama "the community organizer" did not do any billion dollar trade deals, the deals were done by profit monger greedy capitalists- Boeing and GE, etc. He just loosened the export controls, which may or may not be good policy. Its all in the details. None of this requires a trip to India, it has probably been in the works for months. (Didn't they bash the GM execs for flying into DC in private jets?) I am sure they have fax machines and courier service in the WH to sign trade deals/ loosen export controls. If it is safe technology to export to India, then I am fine with it. There is no doubt a lot of red tape to export "potential dual use" aerospace technology, and some restrictions are necessary for security.

:thumbsup:

LJ, was the leader of shrill bashers against bush, every chance s/he had s/he would take a pot shot. But, liberals got spanked pretty good and got what they deserved, now its time for them to get back under a rock and hide, that's where they belong! :VeryScared:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/G20-fallo ... et=&ccode=

Looks like we are getting our moneys worth out of this trip after all. Go Obama and Bernake!

G-20 fallout: Trade barriers, tensions could rise

"The Group of 20 meeting of leading rich and developing nations ended Friday in South Korea with no solutions to longstanding tensions over trade and currency"

"The U.S. couldn't persuade other countries to pressure China to stop manipulating its currency or limit their own trade surpluses and deficits. The Americans faced charges of doing some currency manipulation of their own by pumping $600 billion into their economy."

"The summit was a diplomatic setback for the United States. China was supposed to be the villain of the G-20 meeting."

""Basically, what happened was a diplomatic coup for China," says William Cline, senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics. A few months ago, countries from Brazil to Germany were criticizing Chinese trade policies. "Fast-forward, and now China and Germany and Brazil are blaming the United States for causing currency problems.""

In effect, the trip cost the American taxpayer $ 20 billion per day instead of the paltry $ 200 million. Why? In preparation of the G-20, The Fed immediately put $ 190 billion of the $ 600 billion into the economy. Divide that by the number of days (7) Obama was travelling around the globe. Ironically, $ 20 billion per day was the American taxpayer costs for Obama attending the G-20. Now, let's find the $ 200 billion?

Don't worry we have another $ 400 billion to go.

Joe wrote: finance.yahoo.com/news/G20-fallout-Trade...&pos=8&asset=&ccode=

Looks like we are getting our moneys worth out of this trip after all. Go Obama and Bernake!

G-20 fallout: Trade barriers, tensions could rise

"The Group of 20 meeting of leading rich and developing nations ended Friday in South Korea with no solutions to longstanding tensions over trade and currency"

"The U.S. couldn't persuade other countries to pressure China to stop manipulating its currency or limit their own trade surpluses and deficits. The Americans faced charges of doing some currency manipulation of their own by pumping $600 billion into their economy."

"The summit was a diplomatic setback for the United States. China was supposed to be the villain of the G-20 meeting."

""Basically, what happened was a diplomatic coup for China," says William Cline, senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics. A few months ago, countries from Brazil to Germany were criticizing Chinese trade policies. "Fast-forward, and now China and Germany and Brazil are blaming the United States for causing currency problems.""

residenttroll wrote: Don't worry we have another $ 400 billion to go.

Too bad the rightards have that earmarked for our invasion on Iran...

Joe wrote: finance.yahoo.com/news/G20-fallout-Trade...&pos=8&asset=&ccode=

Looks like we are getting our moneys worth out of this trip after all. Go Obama and Bernake!

G-20 fallout: Trade barriers, tensions could rise

"The Group of 20 meeting of leading rich and developing nations ended Friday in South Korea with no solutions to longstanding tensions over trade and currency"

"The U.S. couldn't persuade other countries to pressure China to stop manipulating its currency or limit their own trade surpluses and deficits. The Americans faced charges of doing some currency manipulation of their own by pumping $600 billion into their economy."

"The summit was a diplomatic setback for the United States. China was supposed to be the villain of the G-20 meeting."

""Basically, what happened was a diplomatic coup for China," says William Cline, senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics. A few months ago, countries from Brazil to Germany were criticizing Chinese trade policies. "Fast-forward, and now China and Germany and Brazil are blaming the United States for causing currency problems.""

Imagine the surprise in *MY* voice!