August 10, 201016 yr Does Queen Michelle really need a staff of 27 people that cost the tax payers 1.75 million per year?? How do you have any idea how many people are required to travel? How many of these events have you planned and carried out? You don't know, so yeah I bet she does need a staff of 27. For her office, I would venture to say that is pretty small. 1.75 million?? That is a lot to you in comparison to the overall budget?
August 11, 201016 yr Were did you get these numbers? The camp David numbers seem very high. even the home visits even seem a bit high. These things are pretty closely followed. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4728085-503544.html
August 11, 201016 yr Seems the trip isn't quite what everyone is screaming about. According to the Chicago Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet, the first lady made the trip because she wanted to spend time with her best friend, Chicago physician Anita Blanchard, who lost her father this summer. Blanchard (who is married to President Obama's best friend, Marty Nesbitt) planned a Spanish vacation with her daughter and invited the first lady and her daughters to come along. Michelle, who missed Blanchard's father's funeral in July, agreed and brought along her 9-year-old daughter, Sasha. The first couple's older daughter, Malia, is away at camp. According to Sweet, one other mutual friend came along with her own two daughters. And according to the White House, all parties paid for their own hotel rooms and personal expenses. [Video: Was Michelle's trip too lavish?] Speaking of the hotel: As The Upshot speculated last week, it was the Secret Service that booked the Obama group's rooms at the luxury Hotel Villa Padierna, in part because agents could guard the perimeter of the property much better than they could at rival facilities.
August 11, 201016 yr Seems the trip isn't quite what everyone is screaming about. OH, so it isn't going to cost taxpayers $350,000?
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