President hops on air force one and cost us 3.6 million to go back to his vacation.
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jclalor 12
QuoteQuote10 hour flight one way.
AF1 hourly operating cost $181,000.
They bring the backup plane also which doubles cost.
This is not counting the support cargo plane carrying limos, SS vehicles etc.
Its at least going to cost another 3.6 Million to come home that's if he flies right back. If we are looking to cut some lets cut the air force budget that this operates from.
7.2 million for round trip, ooh and hes already done this right before christmas thats another 7.2 mil. 14.4 MILLION for a vacation.... Its good to be a president during a severe deficit.
Less than an hour after Congress and the White House resolved the fiscal cliff, President Obama boarded Air Force One to return to his planned Hawaiian holiday vacation.
He boarded the plane at Joint Base Andrews in Camp Springs, Md., shortly before midnight Wednesday following a New Year’s Day of political drama on Capitol Hill.
The 10-hour overnight flight was scheduled to arrive in Oahu around 5 a.m. local time Wednesday when he will reunite with First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia, who have been vacationing there since just before Christmas.
Perhaps you can cite your previous threads complaining about Bush flying back and forth to the ranch in Crawford 77 times on Air Force One.
rehmwa 2
Quotemy American students will spend 20 years paying off their student loans.
if you overly subsidize education - then don't be surprise when the cost of getting it skyrockets
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DARK 0
QuoteThe tax code is 70,000+ pages long, I'm pretty sure you can make a hell of a dent by removing this kind of stuff from there.
The tax code is about collecting tax revenue not spending it and I am all for tax simplification but spending cuts and tax cuts are two COMPLETELY different conversations and trying to link the two is just another bullshit way of muddying the waters so that nothing of substance ever happens.
DARK 0
QuoteQuotemy American students will spend 20 years paying off their student loans.
if you overly subsidize education - then don't be surprise when the cost of getting it skyrockets
This is not evident in the numerous countries that offer public / subsidised education.
Quality, appreciation, waste are all things that can be debated intelligently but there is no evidence that cost increases follow subsidization.
In fact in Ireland its not only subsidized but completely paid for until postgraduate level and if you happen to be one of the people who have to pay full price it still works out far far cheaper in Ireland then in an equivalant university in the US and in many cases cheaper then the US equivalent.
JerryBaumchen 1,333
I agree with your thinking 'somewhat.' IMO we do need to work on getting the deficit lower.
So, have you ever written to your Congressman/woman or either US Senators and told them how you feel?
Just wondering,
JerryBaumchen
cvfd1399 0
What's fucked up is we can't start leveling the playing field with the rules we have now, if your raise one group they complain, if you raise another's, they complain.
Put it in stone if the government spent their money wisely, and every individual, business, etc paid their fair share(equal amounts in all areas). I would have no problem having paying a huge tax rate to keep this country going.
My issue is they are over spending on useless shit, not tracking where the money is going, handing it out like candy, etc, and they want a certain class to pay for it all, or hand pick businesses to get tax cuts or handouts
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billvon 2,877
>of privileges is not the only one.
Yep. And Bush's 1000+ days of vacation outraged the left. Nothing new to see here.
Andy9o8 2
States and municipalities can do what they want. Look at how far we've fallen since the Department of Education was made a cabinet post.
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GeorgiaDon 355
Good for her and you, seriously. I also got through my PhD without loans, and started a family in the process, by virtue of my wife 1) working, and 2) enforcing a very strict budget. But, that was 23 years ago, costs of everything have escalated dramatically since then.QuoteWhy should the government pay for their school, where is personal responsibility? My wife went to a private elementary school all the way through getting her masters without the government paying for her education. Her dad got her through high school, and we paid for the rest on a firefighters salary, and her working her way through odds and end jobs.
The cost of a masters depends very much on the field, which of course I don't know in your wife's case. Some fields require an additional two years of coursework beyond the undergrad, which is survivable. In the hard sciences you have that plus a significant research project, enough to produce a publishable paper in your research discipline. I rarely see a Master's completed in less than 3 years, sometimes more. If you add a PhD on top of that, you have more course work plus enough experimental research for 2-4 papers, so we are typically talking about 5 years on top of the Masters, sometimes as much as 7, working full time on your research.
Now of course we can say that people take this on voluntarily so it should be entirely on them. Two things to consider, though. Loans have to be repaid; without access to loans you would have to have the money for all those years of tuition and living expenses in your pocket before you could even start, as (in the sciences) you'll only be able to earn enough as a TA or at a part-time job to cover part of the costs, and the more time you spend working outside the lab the more years you'll have to put in to get finished. So it is on the student, just spread out and largely deferred until they are finished and working. So without access to loans, very few Americans would undertake such education, yet these are the scientists who are essential to maintain American leadership in biotech and other technology-intensive industries. Secondly, many other countries are investing heavily in the education of their people. Whatever you may think of American exceptionalism, if India and China are producing 10 times the PhDs that we are in high-tech fields, where do you think those industries will be based 20 years from now?
Here's a different way to think of the issue. It costs the US military about 6 million dollars to train a pilot, or 9-12 million for a fighter pilot. For 9 million dollars I can train about 30 PhD biochemists and immunologists, most of whom will end up working in biotech or even starting their own biotech companies. Which is a better investment in the economic productivity of the country, 1 fighter pilot or 30 biochemists and immunologists? Which investment is more likely to grow the economy and add wealth, including tax revenues, to the country?
For that matter, there are educational institutions that train pilots, Embry-Riddle for one. Why not have a system where people pay the cost themselves to get training as a fighter pilot, then the military can hire the best graduates. I bet the cost will come down from 9-12 million, maybe it'll only cost a couple of million. Don't most people have that put aside by the time they are finished high school, anyway?
Don
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billvon 2,877
With popular elections you will get exactly the same sort of people in power. "Throw the bums out" just gets you more "bums." We really do have the kind of government we've asked for.
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