Just read the article on yahoo news. Taxpayers pay for a good portion of the travel expenses for the prez to dofundraising and campaigning. 1. use of AF 1 jet. 2. Use of secret service 3. Shipping of armored limos and helecopters to locations. 4. Hotel accomodations.This all amounts to a huge chunk of change each time. How do presidents transfer the burden of these costs to the citizens of the US? They plan a public "official" event nearby to the location of the fundraiser/campaign event. They spend 5 min patting babies on the head, and talking to regular folks about the economy, and then they shoot down the road to raise a million or two for their party or for running a second time. Our current admin isnt the only one who has done this. Do you think this is a wise use of taxpayers money? Shouldnt these costs be paid by campaign funds even if there is a brief stop on official business? Respectful and thoughtful replies only ! THIS IS NOT A LOADED QUESTION! what do you think?
2006-08-30 10:30:38 · 9 answers · asked by prancingmonkey 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
That is total BS for either party to do that. The wealthy always act like welfare recipients, they never use money earned only gained.
2006-08-30 10:36:16 · answer #1 · answered by Charles B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love how they didn't mention until about the 10th paragraph that it isn't just President Bush who has done it, but everyone back at least as far as Reagan, and that the president has broken no laws in doing what he's done. If they want to try to pass a law that will make more restrictions, fine, but yahoo sucks for putting a story with a loaded headline like that on it's homepage.
2006-08-30 10:37:01 · answer #2 · answered by sethle99 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you want a president running for reelections to be open game for every crazy & terrorist in the world? Do you remember President Regean getting shot as he was waving before getting into limo? What is your solution? No solution no problem to me.
Seated Presidents must have same right to campaign as opponent.
2006-08-30 10:37:12 · answer #3 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Politics as usual. What it does do is allow the regular folk to see the President and the President sees them. It's all PR but it's also good for the country to see the President out and about.
2006-08-30 10:35:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is all human beings searching for in one day differences from President Obama? He has been in workplace for 5 months and prople anticipate him to coach around years of ignore and palms off government in one day. i'm no longer a blind follower of this president. yet i know it takes time to be certain the diversities he has laid the floor artwork for in this united states. no person looked as though it would ideas while the previous admin became spending as much as ten billion funds a month to combat a conflict that became no longer our very own for the previous 5 years. and that i additionally want individuals might take some respnsibility for the undesirable judgements they made for themselves and their families. no person became saving funds for the destiny and all human beings became spendingl like te funds tree might by no ability run out. properly it ran out. now we would desire to continuously manage the outcomes. i think of the Bernie Madoff case is a main occasion of in basic terms how we has a human beings have lived over the final 15 years. supply my funds to somebody else to regulate and each little thing would be o.k.. extremely as quickly as back we seek for the fast restoration to problems we created. i visit ge happy to hearken to what you're saying if we are nevertheless interior the comparable place or worse off on the tip of 2010. I observed this comparable sort of complaining while the dot-com bubble popped. i'm blessed to nevertheless have a job right now yet i understand something can take place. So What did I do? I did'nt bypass out and purchase the $250,000.00 homestead and the ideal of the line Lexus. i offered the $108,00.00 homestead and the Nissen Sentra. I stored my funds and lived interior of my ability. Amd in case you do in contrast to what President Obama is doing, you could continuously vote him out in 4 years. i visit offer him a raffle befoore ( a minimum of extra effective than 5 months) earlier I throw interior the towel.
2016-11-06 02:30:09 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, i am for it.
even though i am a dedicated republican, the governent allows the ordinary person to have sufficient funding to make their case to the people. without this funding, all we would ever hear are the ultra wealthy supported candidate.
-eagle
2006-08-30 10:34:25 · answer #6 · answered by eaglemyrick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
trying to keep it honest is difficult
2006-08-30 10:34:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is fine and fair game.
2006-08-30 10:33:24 · answer #8 · answered by The Big Shot 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not.
2006-08-30 10:36:00 · answer #9 · answered by shmux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋