(UPDATE: OK, my bad - perhaps someone slipped a zero or something, because $6k per person/day is a marginally more realistic figure [even with the perceived excesses of Teh One(tm)] than $66k/pperson/day.
But, in the interests of complete honesty, I still detest Obama's attitude of arrogance and elitism, and the hypocrisy of urging Americans to tighten their belts while his wifey-poo goes swanning off to Spain [and other actions of that genre]. Frankly, 2012 ca't come too fast, and I pray the Republicans/RINOs will keep their noses clean so that we can continue taking America back from these shallow, insincere, deceitful, sanctimonious, elitist know-nothings.
Oh, and note that my concern for the benefit to the American people still stands. What is the PURPOSE of this trip, anyway?
Just sayin'. Honestly. /update)
White House officials have dismissed a claim made by an Indian news outlet that Barack Obama's trip to India would cost $200m (£122m) a day as "wildly inflated".
The claim was seized upon by rightwing talkshow hosts in the US, but the Obama administration declined to put a figure on the cost of the three-day visit to Mumbai and Delhi.
"The numbers reported in this article have no basis in reality," Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman, said.
Oh, really? He's going to take 3,000 people. There will be 34 Navy ships deployed to the area. He's booked the entire Taj Mahal Hotel. The US Military is supposedly going to build a 1 km tunnel to the Gandhi Museum. Who knows what other excesses are on the itinerary? Two hundred million dollars a day? Seems like a low estimate to me... And what, again, will be the benefit to the citizens of the United States? I mean, besides us tightening our belts while the Obamessiah proclaims "Let them eat cake!"
Even if that is an excessive cost figure, it still makes me wonder - 3,000 people, 34 warships, all the bells and whistles that go along with a Presidential visit (particularly of this size)... And the point of this all is what???
WHAT'S IN IT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?????
