At the time, the Obama family was vacationing in Hawaii for 17 days. That brings the costs to date for the the first family’s personal travel to $85 million. Although, according to Judicial Watch based on federal government records, the amount spent is likely to climb to $90 million after additional records are released.
According to Mark Knoller, a CBS News White House correspondent who maintains an authoritative record of presidential activities, Obama’s taken “28 vacations spanning all or part of 217 days.” The numbers do not include the current 17 day Hawaii trip, expected to end January 2.
Some quick arithmetic shows that to date, vacation days total 234 which divided by 8 equals 29, or the equivalent of a month per year. That’s double the time taken by average, regularly employed citizens who actually work for a living.
The reason for raising the subject is that Trump is also on vacation, at his own place in Palm Beach, Florida, as mentioned by Charlie Spiering @breitbart.com who writes: “When Obama went on vacation, we got millions of dollars in bills for lavish resorts.
"When Trump goes on vacation, we get 8,000 new American jobs."
Trump tweeted: “Hello everybody, we just had some very good news, because of what is happening and the spirit and the hope, I was just called by the head people at Sprint and they are going to be bringing 5,000 jobs back to the United States. They have taken them from other countries. They are bringing them back to the United States.”
He also confirmed that OneWeb would be hiring more workers as well, a deal reached after working with “SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, a billionaire investor in technology who currently owns 80 percent of Sprint and has invested $1 billion in OneWeb.”
“OneWeb, a new company is going to be hiring 3,000 people so that is very exciting,”
On another subject, a breitbart article found on Facebook this morning, concerned Thomas Sowell’s submission of his final syndicated column on Tuesday after 25 years.
In appreciation of Dr. Sowell’s brilliant and prescient observations 11 of them were presented as favored samples of his work. Three of them follow:
“The Failure of Government Bureaucracy: A Personal Odyssey:
“In the summer of 1959, as in the summer of 1957, I worked as a clerk-typist in the headquarters of the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington. The people I worked for were very nice and I grew to like them.
“One day, a man had a heart attack at around 5 PM, on the sidewalk outside the Public Health Service. He was taken inside to the nurse’s room, where he was asked if he was a government employee. If he were, he would have been eligible to be taken to a medical facility there. Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance. By the time this ambulance made its way through miles of Washington rush-hour traffic, the man was dead.
“He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors.
“Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.”
And if that doesn’t perfectly describe the big-government destruction of everything it touches, nothing does.
Then there’s this one on “Diversity”:
“The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”
And lastly: “A Legacy of Liberalism”:
“Nearly a hundred years of the supposed “legacy of slavery” found most black children being raised in two-parent families in 1960. But thirty years after the liberal welfare state found the great majority of black children being raised by a single parent.
“The murder rate among blacks in 1960 was one-half of what it became 20 years later, after a legacy of liberals’ law enforcement policies. Public housing projects in the first half of the 20th century were clean, safe places, where people slept outside on hot summer nights, when they were too poor to afford air conditioning. That was before admissions standards for public housing projects were lowered or abandoned, in the euphoria of liberal non-judgmental notions. And it was before the toxic message of victimhood was spread by liberals.
“If we are to go by evidence of social retrogression, liberals have wreaked more havoc on blacks than the supposed “legacy of slavery” they talk about.”
While Dr. Sowell’s last thought speaks for itself, it leads right into another breitbart article, this one by Ian Hanchett where the comments from readers present a very clear picture of the disappointment with Obama felt by virtually all of them.
“On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Huffington Post Senior Politics Editor Sam Stein stated, “you look at the destruction of the Democratic Party under Barack Obama’s leadership and you have to wonder…what were the electoral benefits that he gave to the party?”
“He leaves them in a much worse position. He — the states are decimated. They’ve lost control of the House and the Senate. The governorships are decimated. So, yeah, maybe — he is obviously a gifted candidate. He did won — he did win election twice, by substantial margins, but his legacy as a politician is a bit muddied by all that.”
And then came some of the readers thoughts.
Michael Memorable Event wrote: “Obama worked at self improvement throughout his presidency. He is a much better golfer now than he was 8 years ago.”
Dee Dee added: “King Putt.”
Next was Deplorable John: “King putz”
Followed by Veteran for Trump: “Commander in Cleats”
mom58 wrote: “the Bogeyman”
duckduckgoose typed: “He was a sand wedger, for sure.”
The Deplorable Avenger opined: “And he still sucks. His swing is awful and his putting stroke is pathetic.”
Then there was Jason, who thought: “His behavior is par for the course;)”
B Ward closed with: “He's a hole in one. All he left the Democrats is the hole they're in.”
All of which led up to a closing graphic posted by a Facebook friend today:
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
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