Ten minutes equals 600 seconds. That is how long President Obama spoke in Columbus Ohio on Friday. And that ten minute event, complete with hard hats and chartreuse safety vests standing behind him for the photo-prop, cost you and me, Dear Reader, between $500,000 and $1,000,000! For what? Where is our return on that investment?
At a time when 9.7% of our adults are out of work, when we have mortgaged our grand children's future, when the people of my home area, Southern Ohio, are facing crippling gasoline prices and further lay-offs -- at a time like that, the President is spending our money like it was his.
How about, Mr. President, cutting all of your political travel to save the taxpayer's money? Use satellites or Skype to deliver your 10 minute message, not Air Force One at $100,000 an hour, Marine One on stand-by, and all the associated planes-full of armored vehicles, secret service, press, and "dignitaries."
How much did your ten minute photo-op cost the city of Columbus in Police time, emergency workers time, and pay-roll time to make way for the motorcade to and fro? We do not have the money for this foolishness. This is not your money, Mr. President. We are in hard economic times. Act like it!
How ironic and sad that on the same day thatPresident Obama was wasting our money, Vice President Biden said this: "That's what we try to instill -- a new ethic in the federal government -- individuals, all of us being personally responsible at every level for making sure we handle the taxpayers' dollars well," Biden said.
How empty their words are. Watch what they do, not what they say and vote them out!
The Voice of One.
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