How to see India on only $200 million per day

snow scorpion

Tomorrow the President who went from messiah to pariah in just 22 months is heading off to India. And he's bringing just a few essentials with him:

• 3000 of his nearest and dearest friends
• 40 jetliners
• 34 warships
• 40 cars
• both Air Force Ones
• all 570 rooms at the Taj Hotel
• and another 230 rooms at the Hyatt

And the cost to the American taxpayer? A mere $200 million per day.

sources:
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=7610
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/34-warships-sent-from-us-for-obama-visit-64459

800 hotel rooms? I guess he's bringing all his spare teleprompters with him.

Overheal

You need to check your sources; just like they need to check their sources.

Anderson Cooper brought up this issue while he was in an interview with a new republican congresswoman - long story short rather than cuts to medicare or the military, she spent her 5 minutes criticizing this.

Anywho, AC did diligence, and found the source was an anonymous Indian lead which would have no way of knowing the White Houses expenses for this trip, which for security reasons, are never published before the fact. The most expensive presidential trip on record was Bill Clinton in the 90s to Asia which cost the tune of $50 million - for the entire trip. I'm not sure if thats adjusted for inflation or not.

This figure is a load of BS, basically.

Transcript of AC360: http://www.livedash.com/transcript/anderson_cooper_360/49/CNN/Wednesday_November_3_2010/328406/

00:22:42 After the interview we did checking on the trip to india costing $200 million a day.
00:22:49 Congressman bachmann said it's in news report.
00:22:51 It turns out the source of this unsubstantiated claim is not from politico it's have an indian news report and the original report is from an anonymous indian source, how he would know how much president obama's trip is costing, I'm not sure.
00:23:04 After the interview we went back to the white house for further details, quote, the numbers reported in this article have no basis to reality.
00:23:12 Due to security concerns we're unable to outline details in procedures and costs but it's safe to say these numbers are wildly inflated.
00:23:19 We can get some idea bill clinton's trip most expensive ever, $50 million and not per day but for the entire trip.

Video: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/03/bachmann-sounds-off-on-spending-wont-identify-specific-cuts/

Overheal

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/11/obamas-india-trip----not-as-expensive-as-you-may-have-heard/1

http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2010/11/04/obamas-200-million-a-day-trip-to-india-a-case-study-in-pathological-lunacy/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog

The video in that second link cracks me up. I wonder at which point they knew they put their foot in their mouth? Was it before or after they pulled out the prop Joe the Employer to gripe about the fairy figure.

Two hundred million bucks a day? As Factcheck.org points out, the entire U.S. war effort in Afghanistan — where we have to arm, equip and provision roughly 100,000 troops in a hostile, barren environment — costs us $190 million a day. The claim is simply too ridiculous to be contemplated, let alone believed.

I think this will only bring us back to Journalistic integrity vs. Political agenda. Or has Journalism in the internet age just gone completely downhill?

Scofflaw

OP is misinformed.

moderately,
Scofflaw