[TheRealThing]

I hear ya. And yet, if you're a liberal you're over the moon right now with the advances that have been made in the area of social justice. I mean, just try googling the liberal agenda and see what pops up. It reads like the collective works of Barack Obama.

To a liberal, this time of suffering is what Obama referred to during his run up to the White House as the "fudamental transformation" of America. And, to the liberal, the end justifies the means. I mean God dissolved Sodom and Gomorrah without a trace for just one little part of the liberal agenda, that of homosexuality. Which is rampant in our day by the way. That and the incredibly hellish sin of abortion on demand, where the first taste of the outside world for sweetest and most defenseless among us are the sadist cutting tools with which they are cut into pieces and later thrown into an incinerator by monsters who call themselves doctors. LOL, we make King Herod look like Mother Teresa. Oh, but you let baby seals get bludgeoned by heartless fur traders and we mobilize the troops with choler! Or if we crank out too much CO2 at a electrical generating station, (in the eyes of the green gestapo), it's lights out!

Frankly, I think a lot of what goes on is Satanic. We live in a nation that suddenly finds itself defending and preserving homosexual rights while pouring gas on the fires of civil unrest. We are tolerant to a fault for anything and everything EXCEPT God's sovereignty. We have reaped the wind and we will reap the whirlwind. America will turn or burn, to me it's that simple. And, it will happen first in the church and then at the voting booth.

Well, I seem to be on a roll today. I meant to say we have sown the wind and we will reap the whirlwind.

[TheRealThing]

One wonders if there is anything the dems might say that folks wouldn't believe. Somewhere between February and March administration officials suddenly got very fiscally conservative, as now we find that White House tours are off, and we're laying off everybody except the royal food taster because the pincers of the sequester are upon us, and then we hear the following;
By Meghan Keneally
"Paris may be known as the City of Light, but that title certainly doesn’t mean that visitors are light on spending as Vice President Joe Biden’s one day trip cost taxpayers more than half a million dollars.
When Mr Biden and his hefty entourage stayed in Paris for an evening in early February and it cost $585,000.50 for that single night."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z2OKGthZrX :lame:

[TheRealVille]

One wonders if there is anything the dems might say that folks wouldn't believe. Somewhere between February and March administration officials suddenly got very fiscally conservative, as now we find that White House tours are off, and we're laying off everybody except the royal food taster because the pincers of the sequester are upon us, and then we hear the following;
By Meghan Keneally
"Paris may be known as the City of Light, but that title certainly doesn’t mean that visitors are light on spending as Vice President Joe Biden’s one day trip cost taxpayers more than half a million dollars.
When Mr Biden and his hefty entourage stayed in Paris for an evening in early February and it cost $585,000.50 for that single night."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z2OKGthZrX :lame:

(CNN) – If you think Paris is expensive, the City of Light costs a lot more when you're traveling with the vice president.

Recent documents posted to a government website give a rare glimpse of Vice President Joe Biden's overseas travel expenses.



Official business took him last month to Europe, a trip that included a bill of $585,000 for his one-night stay in Paris.

Also on the receipt was $321,665 for a limousine company and $459,338.65 for a hotel stay in London.

And while Biden was only in each town for one night, the London hotel bill, for example, included 136 rooms for multiple nights for his advance team, according to the documents posted on the website for Federal Business Opportunities and unearthed by the conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard.

Whether or not the figures were posted online intentionally remain unclear, as similar reports for previous overseas trips could not be located on the same website.

Was this deluxe or just routine?

Several officials from previous administrations said this is just what it costs to run a full-scale, overseas trip for someone like the president or the vice president.

One former official from the George W. Bush administration thought the price tag was high, but conceded there are a lot of factors that drive up the cost, such as compensation for emptying rooms or displacing guests for security purposes.

The vice president's office referred CNN to the State Department, which said the costs are "nothing out of the ordinary."

"They are in line with high level travel across multiple administrations. The contract costs cover the entire range of support, including accommodations for military, communications, secret service staff, and other support professionals," the department said in a statement.
In addition, the department said, security experts are also required to travel in advance of the president or vice president.

"Safety and security are not negotiable," the statement read.

A former senior White House staff member who served in a couple of Republican administrations and whose responsibilities included oversight of travel, said the hotel rate of $500 per night in London is "not bad," adding it sounds normal to have as many as 136 rooms.

"It doesn't seem out of line to me," the source said.
The State Department has a contract with the Hyatt Regency London-the Churchill, the former official said of the necessary agreement in such cases so several floors of a hotel can be reserved at once.
The largest number of rooms for a trip normally goes to the Secret Service. Next comes the military, which sets up secure communications.

Following that are the medical unit and the stewards, who screen and serve food to the president, vice president or other top officials, and then the military.

The flight crew from Air Force One or Air Force Two may also be staying in the hotel or they could be at a different location, the former official said.
Reporters following the vice president or president may also stay at the same hotel - on their own dime. But the White House team usually reserves those rooms as part of the group block.

A former advance person who worked presidential and vice presidential trips for several Republican administrations said 136 rooms isn't surprising, and added that as many as 20 of those might be used for offices.

As for the limousine to travel around Paris, the former advance official said that goes for the motor pool.

The vice president's limo is flown in, but staff members on the trip didn't take the Metro around. They're not allowed to drive themselves and tend to book normal cars and drivers with the motor company-but don't necessarily take limousines. The $321,665 figure in Paris sounded about right, that former official said.

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[Hoot Gibson]

Sequestration is nothing by a tool Obama and his cynical advisers devised to raise taxes on successful individuals and companies. It has not worked yet, but with Boehner, McCain, and Graham working on his behalf, Obama may yet get his way.

[TheRealThing]

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Your usual MO is to disagree with my posts. I am forced to conclude that is not the case this time after you have put up evidence that supports my claim. At a time when according to administration officials, the treasury is so depleted we can barely keep the lights on and the floors clean at the White House. We see that Joe Biden is out spending a million and a half dollars on hotels and revelries for who knows how many staffers and fellow bureaucrats to party hardy in Paris and London. Since we all know it takes 180 thousand dollars an hour to operate Air Force One, and since we know the advance teams likely flew over in style as well, to assume travel expenses and payroll topped 5 million for the whole shooting match is not at all out of line.

With that in mind, is anybody aware of any benefit this trip provided to the taxpayers who paid for it? I've yet to hear of a thing. I guess the folks in England and France were thankful for the opportunity to swoon at his appearance and with the threat of a 75% income tax rate looming over their heads in France, they obviously can use the money. What a boat load of hypocrites, everybody has to "do their fair share" but, they sure aren't about to back off any on their own regal self indulgences. And, the irony of all this? The very sheep getting laughed at and sheared by the likes of this grimacing goof, are the ones throwing themselves off the financial cliff to make it all happen.