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Post by Belle on Feb 15, 2020 18:29:21 GMT -6
Here's your sign!!!
Video Trump’s 29th Trip To Mar-a-Lago Brings Golf Tab To 334 Years Of Presidential SalaryThe president often brags about not taking a paycheck, but his golf hobby has now cost taxpayers $133.8 million. President Donald Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago on Friday evening for the 29th golf-related trip of his presidency to his for-profit Palm Beach, Florida, resort, raising his total taxpayer golf tab to $133.8 million. That figure translates to 334 years of the presidential salary that Trump and his supporters frequently boast he is not taking. During Barack Obama’s presidency, Trump frequently claimed he was playing golf too much and at too great an expense to taxpayers. “I play golf to relax. My company is in great shape. @barackobama plays golf to escape work while America goes down the drain,” Trump tweeted in December 2011. “Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf. Worse than Carter,” he wrote three years later. As he began his own run for the White House, candidate Trump repeatedly promised that golf would never make it onto a President Trump’s schedule. “I love golf, but if I were in the White House, I don’t think I’d ever see Turnberry again. I don’t think I’d ever see Doral again,” he told a rally audience in February 2016, referring to his courses in Scotland and Miami. “I don’t ever think I’d see anything. I just want to stay in the White House and work my ass off.” Yet after three years in office, Trump has spent two-and-a-half times as many days on a golf course as Obama had done at the same point in his first term. If Trump plays golf both Saturday and Sunday, he will have played 248 times. Obama by his 1,123rd day in office had played 92 times. MORE
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2020 22:17:16 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2020 22:19:43 GMT -6
I for one would like to see what Congress people have spent during their careers...like Nancy Pelosi's 40 year career. It's probably a lot more.
Personally, I think all the perks should be stripped and the salary brought way down...that way, we have people in there who actually want to work for the people, and not people looking for a meal ticket.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2020 22:41:59 GMT -6
I for one would like to see what Congress people have spent during their careers...like Nancy Pelosi's 40 year career. It's probably a lot more.Personally, I think all the perks should be stripped and the salary brought way down...that way, we have people in there who actually want to work for the people, and not people looking for a meal ticket. Why is it "probably a lot more"?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2020 23:21:30 GMT -6
Even notwithstanding the financial cost, trump's extreme amount of golf playing shows his amazing hypocrisy. But republicans excuse this, too. The 27 times Donald Trump tweeted about Barack Obama playing golf too much Trump adores golf, but used to argue presidents shouldn’t spend much time playingDonald Trump has tweeted about golf at least 460 times since creating his Twitter account in 2009. He’s promoted the courses he owns, praised the game as a source of mental and physical development, critiqued other courses, and bragged about whom he’s playing with. Between 2011 and 2016, he also tweeted at least 27 complaints, jokes, or scoldings about Barack Obama playing golf while president. Some of the following could be considered retweets, but Trump’s long had a unique Twitter style that blurs the line between tweets about him and those he writes himself. www.sbnation.com/golf/2017/3/27/15073086/donald-trump-tweets-barack-obama-golf
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2020 23:48:14 GMT -6
I for one would like to see what Congress people have spent during their careers...like Nancy Pelosi's 40 year career. It's probably a lot more.Personally, I think all the perks should be stripped and the salary brought way down...that way, we have people in there who actually want to work for the people, and not people looking for a meal ticket. Why is it "probably a lot more"? Because a lot of these senators have been in office 20+ years doing the same things he's doing with taxpayer money. If we're gonna gripe about one, we need to gripe about all. And no, I don't agree with all the trips he takes or golf games.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2020 0:06:31 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2020 0:18:30 GMT -6
Why is it "probably a lot more"? Because a lot of these senators have been in office 20+ years doing the same things he's doing with taxpayer money. If we're gonna gripe about one, we need to gripe about all. And no, I don't agree with all the trips he takes or golf games. But you must separate what is business travel and what is golf playing. How much of what the others was business and how much was recreation?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2020 0:27:44 GMT -6
USD $14.7 million / 535 = $27,476 per congress person, and we do not know how much was for recreation. Trump is one person and he spent about $30 MILLION only for golf.
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Post by Belle on Feb 16, 2020 1:00:24 GMT -6
Because a lot of these senators have been in office 20+ years doing the same things he's doing with taxpayer money. If we're gonna gripe about one, we need to gripe about all. And no, I don't agree with all the trips he takes or golf games. Big difference IS... Money actually going into his pocket every time he goes & conducts business meetings there at his resorts, against the 'others' only being 'paid for'. Your tax dollars are paying him FOR them.
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Post by heregoes on Feb 16, 2020 7:32:14 GMT -6
I for one would like to see what Congress people have spent during their careers...like Nancy Pelosi's 40 year career. It's probably a lot more. Personally, I think all the perks should be stripped and the salary brought way down...that way, we have people in there who actually want to work for the people, and not people looking for a meal ticket. Do Congressmen, any of them, charge us all for near weekly golf trips? Somehow I’ve missed those. Got some links to actual info supporting your allegations?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2020 8:17:17 GMT -6
Y'all believe whatever, but if the President is doing it, so are the congressmen.
Bust them all, but don't pretend it's just one person.
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Post by Belle on Feb 16, 2020 8:20:10 GMT -6
Y'all believe whatever, but if the President is doing it, so are the congressmen. Bust them all, but don't pretend it's just one person. Which congressman have hotels & resorts where they're holding meetings & getting paid for it?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2020 8:22:06 GMT -6
Y'all believe whatever, but if the President is doing it, so are the congressmen. Bust them all, but don't pretend it's just one person. Which congressman have hotels & resorts where they're holding meetings & getting paid for it? Aww...so it's not about using taxpayer money for vacations, it's about using taxpayer money to get rich, gotcha. Yeah, he's dead wrong to do that.
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Post by Belle on Feb 16, 2020 8:32:16 GMT -6
Which congressman have hotels & resorts where they're holding meetings & getting paid for it? Aww...so it's not about using taxpayer money for vacations, it's about using taxpayer money to get rich, gotcha. Yeah, he's dead wrong to do that. It's about him holding meetings at his hotels & resorts & getting paid by TAXPAYERS. When he goes golfing at Mar A Lago he can hold a 'business' meeting & get paid for everyone there using his facilities.
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