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Obama's 2013 trip to play golf with Tiger Woods cost US taxpayers almost $4MM
Posted on 10/27/16 at 1:55 pm
Posted on 10/27/16 at 1:55 pm
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Filings from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) showed that the four-day trip to Florida, where Woods lives, came at a combined cost of $3.6 million to the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.
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the bulk of the cost came from 22 total flight legs flown by six military transport planes involving 14 different commercial airports, as well the actual operation of Air Force One, which costs approximately $200,000 per hour of flight. The breakout of the total cost was $2.8 million billed to Defense and $767,000 to Homeland Security.
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Obama not only played with Woods as part of the trip, he also got some golf lessons from Butch Harmon and his son and renowned instructor Claude Harmon III. The Commander-in-Chief also played a few other rounds of golf — now having logged more than 300 while in office — outside of the time with Woods on the links.
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Posted on 10/27/16 at 1:58 pm to ForeverLSU02
I'm curious how this compares with other vacations and such that previous presidents have taken.
Posted on 10/27/16 at 1:59 pm to ForeverLSU02
Who cares? The President is underpaid to start and it's a drop in the bucket compared to the other shite our government spends money on.
ETA: I wonder what the UV/DV ratio would be if the above statement were used to justify a GOP President's hunting trip...
ETA: I wonder what the UV/DV ratio would be if the above statement were used to justify a GOP President's hunting trip...
This post was edited on 10/27/16 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:01 pm to ForeverLSU02
Meh. Would've been more but 2013 was post-porn star Woods.
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:01 pm to ForeverLSU02
Pimp. Remember, if it's not against the law its A OK.
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:03 pm to StrongBackWeakMind
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Who cares? The President is underpaid to start and it's a drop in the bucket compared to the other shite our government spends money on.
I agree with this.
Lots of shite to hate on Obama for, but this really isn't a big deal IMO.
It costs a frick ton of money for him just to travel anywhere because of all the security coordination.
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the actual operation of Air Force One, which costs approximately $200,000 per hour of flight.
The largest portion of that bill was just using AFO, which every president does constantly.
This post was edited on 10/27/16 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:04 pm to ForeverLSU02
Obama has done a terrible job as president, but if the man wants to play golf I don't see any problem with it.
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:04 pm to Bmath
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I'm curious how this compares with other vacations and such that previous presidents have taken.
the Reagans set the record for vacation time while in office, I think W shattered it
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:05 pm to ForeverLSU02
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he also got some golf lessons from Butch Harmon and his son and renowned instructor Claude Harmon III.
This is strange phrasing.
Butch is by far the most famous Harmon instructor
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:05 pm to TheCaterpillar
Yes it cost money to protect the leader of this country, its never going to change
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:06 pm to 777Tiger
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the Reagans set the record for vacation time while in office, I think W shattered it
W was always on vacay.
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:06 pm to TheCaterpillar
People just love to bash on Obama. Doesn't matter for what.
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:07 pm to ForeverLSU02
He probably bumped it the whole time.
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:07 pm to tigerbait17
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Obama has done a great job as president, but if the man wants to play golf I don't see any problem with it.
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:08 pm to BRgetthenet
I heard he got guacamole with his chipotle.
On the fricking taxpayer's dime.
The gall of this man is unreal.
On the fricking taxpayer's dime.
The gall of this man is unreal.
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:08 pm to TheCaterpillar
He could at least play it down.
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:09 pm to TheCaterpillar
I wonder if he tipped
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:11 pm to ForeverLSU02
He better not. That's taxpayer money he's tipping with.
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:11 pm to ForeverLSU02
Obama ain't no Cuban.
Posted on 10/27/16 at 2:11 pm to TheCaterpillar
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he also got some golf lessons from Butch Harmon and his son and renowned instructor Claude Harmon III.
This is strange phrasing.
Butch is by far the most famous Harmon instructor
Out of the whole thing, this was what irked me the most.
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