(02-19-2017 10:35 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(02-19-2017 10:26 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  This will need to be addressed at some point by the administration. It is red meat for the opposition and media. I expect to see some level of cost cutting measures occur.

What is the solution? I don't see how you "address" it. The protection is a requirement.

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That will be Trumps problem to figure out as the criticism continues...and make no doubt..it will. The left will be relentless on this issue.

It is easy fodder for those that do not like him. Just like many on here beat the drum about the cost of Obama's Hawaii vacations.

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(02-19-2017 10:13 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...586261.htm

Donald Trump's trips in one month have almost cost as much (11.3 million dollars) as Barack Obama's trips cost on average for an entire year (12.1 million roughly per year over the 8 years of his presidency).

Just in case people think this is fake news, it should be noted that the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch is who estimated Obama's average yearly travel cost at 12.1 million.

Link not found. Maybe it is fake news.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...86261.html

They moved the page I guess. Wasn't too hard to find the new URL.

I also see where the local airport near Mar-A-Lago has been shut down three consecutive weekends since President Trump is at his winter/summer home. The guy who runs that airport has lost $30,000 each of the last 3 weekends. It's a small airport with a lot of private plane trips and is 9 miles from Mar-A-Lago and since the Secret Service grounds all airplanes within 10 miles of President Trump, they're screwed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/do....html?_r=0

(02-20-2017 09:37 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...86261.html

They moved the page I guess. Wasn't too hard to find the new URL.

I also see where the local airport near Mar-A-Lago has been shut down three consecutive weekends since President Trump is at his winter/summer home. The guy who runs that airport has lost $30,000 each of the last 3 weekends. It's a small airport with a lot of private plane trips and is 9 miles from Mar-A-Lago and since the Secret Service grounds all airplanes within 10 miles of President Trump, they're screwed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/do....html?_r=0

I bet a lot of Trump Tower area businesses are equally screwed.

(02-19-2017 10:13 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...586261.htm

Donald Trump's trips in one month have almost cost as much (11.3 million dollars) as Barack Obama's trips cost on average for an entire year (12.1 million roughly per year over the 8 years of his presidency).

Just in case people think this is fake news, it should be noted that the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch is who estimated Obama's average yearly travel cost at 12.1 million.

Send the bill to George Soros for the Secret Service expenses due to Soros payroll of thousands of protesters disrupting Trumps every move. Soros really needs to be brought up on treason charges for enciting riots and destruction of private property and attempting disruption of American government functions. The DNC is also guilty of supporting Soros in His corruption and should be fined as well.

(02-20-2017 10:28 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

that's a very accurate description of yourself.

just remember that this is something you absolutely can not blame on liberals ==> yet you did that anyway and something your side criticized Obama for doing which Trump is now doing ==> significantly worse.

(02-19-2017 10:34 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(02-19-2017 10:32 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(02-19-2017 10:32 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(02-19-2017 10:30 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(02-19-2017 10:27 PM)john01992 Wrote:  It has nothing to do with liberals. Trump and his family are traveling a lot more than Obama AND keep insist on going to beachfront places which cost significantly more to protect.

How many times was Obama's motorcade attacked in his 8 years?

A 2x4 is an attack?

throw one at Obama and get back to me.

Why would I do that? I'm a grown up

Please don't feed the troll. If you must, at least don't quote him so I have to see the nonsense. Thanks.

I couldn't care less about this. If this trend continued for an entire 4 years it's a grand total of $540 million dollars to protect him and his family. He's already negotiated the F-35 deal down that much. Either way it's small potatoes compared to the national budget (ie, about 1/100th of one percent). I'll never fault a man for wanting his family protected.

Liberal need to wrap minds around first before you shooting off at the mouth over dumb **** like this. Go ahead look up how many times I complained about Obama golfing. Good luck.

(02-20-2017 10:37 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(02-20-2017 10:28 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

that's a very accurate description of yourself.

just remember that this is something you absolutely can not blame on liberals ==> yet you did that anyway and something your side criticized Obama for doing which Trump is now doing ==> significantly worse.

Actually, I can blame it on the liberals. Attacking Ivanka and her kids on a plane. Attacking the motorcade. Showing your ass in a group protest outside of Trump Tower. Holding up signs that say Rape Melania. Celebrities calling for the assassination of Trump.

(02-20-2017 10:37 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(02-20-2017 10:28 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

that's a very accurate description of yourself.

just remember that this is something you absolutely can not blame on liberals ==> yet you did that anyway and something your side criticized Obama for doing which Trump is now doing ==> significantly worse.

Let it go please.

(02-20-2017 10:41 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  I couldn't care less about this. If this trend continued for an entire 4 years it's a grand total of $540 million dollars to protect him and his family. He's already negotiated the F-35 deal down that much. Either way it's small potatoes compared to the national budget (ie, about 1/100th of one percent). I'll never fault a man for wanting his family protected.

Liberal need to wrap minds around first before you shooting off at the mouth over dumb **** like this. Go ahead look up how many times I complained about Obama golfing. Good luck.

well Obama never did anything wrong in regards to this topic. trump did.

The left did not give a flip about spending for 8 strait years.

Suddenly its a big deal.

(02-20-2017 10:43 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  The left did not give a flip about spending for 8 strait years.

Suddenly its a big deal.

Only Because They aren't benefiting from it now.

(02-20-2017 10:43 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(02-20-2017 10:41 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  I couldn't care less about this. If this trend continued for an entire 4 years it's a grand total of $540 million dollars to protect him and his family. He's already negotiated the F-35 deal down that much. Either way it's small potatoes compared to the national budget (ie, about 1/100th of one percent). I'll never fault a man for wanting his family protected.

Liberal need to wrap minds around first before you shooting off at the mouth over dumb **** like this. Go ahead look up how many times I complained about Obama golfing. Good luck.

well Obama never did anything wrong in regards to this topic. trump did.

lol, what? What did EITHER of them do wrong?

(02-20-2017 10:42 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(02-20-2017 10:37 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(02-20-2017 10:28 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

that's a very accurate description of yourself.

just remember that this is something you absolutely can not blame on liberals ==> yet you did that anyway and something your side criticized Obama for doing which Trump is now doing ==> significantly worse.

Let it go please.

it's a textbook example of how the cons behave:

-even if my side is 100% responsible for the problem ==> blame liberals.

-when I have been proven 100% wrong by a reasonable, well thought out, in depth response ==> don't address it, post a picture, go on pretending I won.

-an overall attitude of being in favor of facts = crying.

it's so perfect in regards to highlighting the complete (AUP violation so redacted) of cons that I have to point it out and document it.

Many mentions of this lockheed deal, so I thought I'd provide some facts for you.

Quote:The deal announced Friday translates to a 7.3 percent reduction in the per-plane cost of the most common F-35 variant. When the overall costs of the program are factored in the reduction is closer to 8 percent.

“This is both a substantial price reduction and an expected one. [Joint Program Manager] Bogdan talked about these kind of broad expectations last year,” said Mackenzie Eaglen, a military analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank.

Eaglen said the president’s intervention probably sped the negotiation toward a conclusion, but said the cost-reductions were already part of the plan.

“The company is going to let him think that this was due to his intervention. … They have no reason not to do that,” Eaglen said. “But I have a feeling the uncertainty he injected spurred a deal much more quickly.”

Lockheed Martin, Pentagon announce F-35 contract deal that shaves $728 million in costs

Trump does deserve some credit, just not all of it. You're welcome.

(02-20-2017 10:46 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(02-20-2017 10:43 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(02-20-2017 10:41 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  I couldn't care less about this. If this trend continued for an entire 4 years it's a grand total of $540 million dollars to protect him and his family. He's already negotiated the F-35 deal down that much. Either way it's small potatoes compared to the national budget (ie, about 1/100th of one percent). I'll never fault a man for wanting his family protected.

Liberal need to wrap minds around first before you shooting off at the mouth over dumb **** like this. Go ahead look up how many times I complained about Obama golfing. Good luck.

well Obama never did anything wrong in regards to this topic. trump did.

lol, what? What did EITHER of them do wrong?

Obama ==> nothing

Trump ==> having excessive security costs thanks to his lack of moral standards and a complete ethics violation in regards to promoting his own facilities while doing it.

(02-20-2017 10:45 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  

(02-20-2017 10:43 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  The left did not give a flip about spending for 8 strait years.

Suddenly its a big deal.

Only Because They aren't benefiting from it now.

or maybe it's because Trump is spending at a rate 24x higher than anything Obama ever did AND with the added ethics violations of using trump hotels, resorts, and planes while doing it?