Presidents and their expenses for vacations

[Benton]

(10-17-2015, 07:37 AM)Belsnickel Wrote:   You're never really off the job, so it's hard to really separate that out. The POTUS budget has definitely gotten out of hand, though, and something needs to be done. What, exactly, though, remains to be determined.

That's the issue to me. If it costs $1 million whether he's in the White House or the golf course, it doesn't matter how the POTUS spends his time. It's easy when people pick apart the number of what it costs for a POTUS to go on vacation, but the total number for the time spent at "home" is fuzzier.

More of an issue is the overall cost. If articles like this one http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/26/taxpayers-spent-1-4-billion-on-obama-family-last-year-perks-questioned-in-new-book/ are half right (and given the source, that's probably about it as they toss in czar salaries with that $1.4 billion figure) are right, then that's crazy. The "perks" account is only a couple hundred thousand.