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Space Bar
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 Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:19 am Post subject: BO's India trip to cost $200 million PER DAY! |
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Obama India Trip Will Cost $200M/Day!
With the 3,000 people he is bringing, that still comes out to $67,000 per person per day. Most people in India survive on $2 or less per day.
Imagine when hyperinflation arrives! |
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recessiontime
Joined: 21 Jun 2010
Location: Got avatar privileges nyahahaha
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kotakji
Joined: 23 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Although I am sure the trip will cost a pretty penny, the source of "a top official of the Maharashtra government" sounds pretty dubious. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Obama is a fiscal a**h*le |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| An anonymous source on a Ron Paul website claiming the president is over spending, yeah thats reliable. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Leon wrote: |
| An anonymous source on a Ron Paul website claiming the president is over spending, yeah thats reliable. |
I saw it this morning from an Indian newspaper. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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Rapper's have their entourage. Obama has his entourage. Since he's the head Honcho, of course he's gotta roll with the biggest crew.
You know he's gonna "make it rain" in Mumbai, and buy Krystal and Crunk juice for his Homeys. |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:17 am Post subject: |
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Did you read your own links? This is from the fact check one you posted.
"It is always costly to move a U.S. president around the world. And in this case, the president is attending a G-20 meeting and will be accompanied by several cabinet officials. But given the dubious source of this assertion, the fact that the claimed cost exceeds the cost of a war, the flat denial by the White House and the lack of any evidence to support the claim, we�ll classify this one as false."
You answered your own question. Some people will believe anything. |
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recessiontime
Joined: 21 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| wow leon, you'll say the dumbest things rather than just owning up to the fact you made an error. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| recessiontime wrote: |
| wow leon, you'll say the dumbest things rather than just owning up to the fact you made an error. |
What error? What stupid thing did I say? He posted links saying that they supported the original story, but one of his own links, the factcheck.org one, directly contradicted the original story. $200 mil a day, anonymous source from the Indian govt., yes that is entirely believable. |
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kotakji
Joined: 23 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| recessiontime wrote: |
| wow leon, you'll say the dumbest things rather than just owning up to the fact you made an error. |
I am not sure where you are going with that comment? Showing 10 media outlets using the same source for a story only increases the likelihood that the source made the comments, not that the source's statements were credible to begin with.
Besides, I could easily see someone going up and racking up the combined expenditures of government agencies that support the trip and then dividing by the number of days the president will be in India. For example, the military spends a shade under 2 billion a day. It would be perfectly reasonable that during those days 10% of the military is keeping its eyes peeled to everything India related. (This is admittedly a crude example, but add in the intelligence community, FBI, and all the agencies that have some diplomatic deal piggy backing on the hopes of the visit and the "cost" for the trip goes up pretty fast even without a single glass of campaign lifted in toast.) Add in the civilian absorbed costs of the security and shut-down of airspace and you get a pretty big bill. |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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here are the FACTS about this lie:
1) Its a US state secret how much is spent on presidential security, the white house, pentagon said it was comical
2) the story originated from AN ANONYMOUS source in India picked up by the Indian equivalent of the AP then picked up by the Drudge Report and we all know how reliable that site is
3) Even Andrew Card says the number is nuts
4) Bachman ducked Coopers question about budget cuts to push this lie
people stop believing clusterf*ck noise |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| recessiontime wrote: |
| wow leon, you'll say the dumbest things rather than just owning up to the fact you made an error. |
Pot calling the kettle black much? |
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rollo
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: China
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| Michelle Bachman started this crap and that is what it is crap. The cost is secret. She is bat guano crazy |
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