Former Presidents cost to tax payers

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Topping the list in 2012 was George W. Bush, who got just over $1.3 million last year.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/govt-spent-37m-presidents-2012-18808656#.UVG-t1f4L3E
 
What's funny about you posting this, I'm sure our present King will make GW's tab look like chump change.

See he's going on an all sequester paid for vacation?
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lol he just made himself look foolish is all, 1.3 mil would be hard pressed to cover all the jetA Michelle and the kids have burnt in the last year.
 
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The first three tax years in which Barack Obama has been President (2009, 2010, and 2011), fully 30.1% of the Obamas’ gross income has come from foreign sources: ($2,711,340 out of a 3-year total gross income of $8,993,449). In 2009, 26.5% of the Obamas’ gross income came from foreign sources. In 2010 it was a whopping 41.4%, and in 2011 it was 30.2%.
 
Obama's earning are in a blind trust, what is your source that its foreign?


Those who criticize the cost of Obama’s Christmas vacation don’t want you to know that George W. Bush spent at least $20 million taxpayer dollars just on flights to his ranch in Crawford.

The right wing has been outraged at the four million dollar plus price tag for Obama’s family Christmas vacation, and they constantly hold George W. Bush up as an example of how thrifty a president should be when going on vacation.

The problem is that W. wasn’t thrifty. He was the most expensive vacation president in US history. Not only did Bush spend more days on vacation than any other president, but he used Air Force One more often while on vacation than any other president.

During Bush’s two terms, the cost of operating Air Force One ranged from $56,800 to $68,000 an hour. Bush used Air Force One 77 times to go to his ranch in Crawford, TX. Using the low end cost of $56,800, Media Matters calculated that each trip to Crawford cost taxpayers $259,687 each time, and $20 million total for Bush’s ranch flights.

http://www.politicususa.com/cost-obama-christmas-vacation-bush.html
 
So he's on a pace to equal Bush? For some, "clearing brush" isn't a vacation. But to others it is. Either way, it cost Americans a LOT of jet-A for those brush clearing trips. What was the Weekly Standard's take on Bush's trips to Texas - averaging almost one per month?
Bush didn't deny citizen's the opportunity to tour the White House while he cleared brush. . . on vacation. Feel free to ask the Weekly Standard their take on Bush's trips to Texas.
 
Hell, Bush had a ranch to go to, where Obama going to go back to Chicago for a couple drive bys and a pizza???
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And Barry is only 4 years and maybe 90 or so days into his credit card run.....get back to me when the bill comes in.
 
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