Joe Biden Travels Like A Millionaire...And On Your Dime

Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air exposes  the Vice President’s annual and GENEROUS $1 Million travel budget for golf games  with the Prez and personal use of AIR FORCE TWO.

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“Every Friday, Biden takes a helicopter designated as Marine Two from the vice president’s residence to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland and then hops on Air Force Two to fly back to his home in Delaware. At the end of the weekend, he returns on Air Force Two, usually a Boeing C-32.

During warm weather, Biden regularly returns to Andrews on the

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airplane on Saturdays to play golf at the Air Force base with President Obama. After the golf game, he flies back to Delaware and returns to Washington on the plane on Sunday evening — all at taxpayer expense.

The cost of flying Air Force Two is $22,000 an hour, so each half-hour trip to or from Delaware costs about $10,000. Each golf game costs taxpayers $20,000. At that rate, the annual cost to taxpayers of Biden’s weekend trips is well over $1 million.

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In addition, the Secret Service rents more than 20 condominiums in the Wilmington, Del. area for agents who must accompany Biden when he returns to his home state.”

 

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/06/09/biden-million-weekend-travel/

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Filed under: Economy, Featured, Inside The KC, Politics by Sonja Eddings Brown, Jun 9, 2012