B&M fiddled in Appalachia while Deepwater Horizon burnedPresident Barack Obama's visit here over a three-day weekend cost the city of Asheville, N.C. $56,264 and the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office about $7,400.
The city's expenses mostly came from overtime, Asheville spokeswoman Dawa Hitch said. “I would like to note that the number does not reflect time worked by salaried staff since there is no overtime compensation for those individuals,” Hitch said.
Determining the total price for Barack and Michelle Obama's trip in late April is difficult. The federal government, particularly the Secret Service, will not divulge expenses related to manpower, transporting the motorcade, cost of the motorcade or details such as how many hotel rooms it paid for.
In terms of public expenses that are discernible — mostly local public safety costs and operating expenses of presidential planes — the trip cost at least $92,480.
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But not by the union-dense lamestream mediaCartoon:
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Takes over jumbo union bankrupted by FOB Prog Andy Stern
Cultural insensitivity not an issue with Lamestreams"President Obama and Democrats said they wanted to see the appointed to the Supreme Court of someone who would sympathize with ordinary Americans," said one frustrated advocate. "But what we got was another Harvard pinhead whose idea of an ordinary American is someone debating whether Marxism is preferable to utopianism in the faculty lounge."
B&M fiddled in Appalachia while Deepwater Horizon burned
