Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post
Yes,
But BO said that after the election, he would take the wife on a "date night".

Now, I don't mind spending a penny on taking care of the POTUS for work related trips, but with GM, Pontiac, banks and the Titanic going under, like why doesn't he get a sitter and rent some movies or porn on the cable/satellite?

There was a shot of about 100 NYC cops standing around waiting for the prez to show up.

Other people said that it was a slap in the face to the rest of the country where, most of us are very aware of what we spend on a date/shopping/perks. He spends money on very trivial things.

He just showed that maybe he doesn't really care about saving my and your money.

Of course, he could have cancelled the Statue of Liberty photo fiasco and gone to see it while he was in town?
I tend to agree with you there. Our lovely gov keeps cutting our salaries...yes I am a state employee...(don't do it, its too easy). Honestly a lot of people I work with work our butts off and he has taken ten percent already and now he is after another 5 percent, in our line of work private industry already makes about double what we do. They paid a consultant 1.3 mill to do what I could have done in a few months if they let me...and our guv was suppose to make it all better

I have been cutting back, but I feel even worse for a lot of other folks and to be honest any extravagance does make me feel guilty. I would like to be Obama act accordingly.