New shocking details have emerged surrounding the specifics of how much President Obama
set-back American taxpayers for his recreational trips.
According to Judicial Watch, the Obama Family's total travel expenses while in office were
just over $114 million, which include family vacations, recreational trips, talk show appearances,
and other expenditures.
The conservative watchdog group recently announced that it obtained records from the US Air Force
and the Secret Service relating to their recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request
for the travel expenses of former President Barack Obama as well as President Donald Trump.
First filed in May 2017, the FOIA lawsuit ended up producing records that showed the
Obama Family's travel expenses cost American taxpayers $114 million in total.
Among those costs included one family trip where Michelle Obama and her daughters shut
down an airport for an hour for their annual vacation to Aspen, where they spent over $88,000
for a weekend trip.
In another instance, President Obama's annual golfing trip to Palm Springs cost over $183,000
for a weekend as well.
However, these expenses are still a far cry from some of their most expensive trips.
The Obama Family's Christmas vacations alone have cost taxpayers close to $35 million,
according to The Washington Times.
The Secret Service also revealed that Mr. Obama spent considerable amounts in post-presidency
travels as well, which were reimbursed by American taxpayers.
Billing close to $2 million in total travel costs, with $936,000 on hotels and another
$814,000 on "miscellaneous expenses," these hefty reimbursements were made while
not knowing anything about the destinations of these trips, which were withheld under
"privacy" and "law enforcement" exemptions.
This updated figure of $114 million is an increase from previous reports earlier in
this year, which calculated President Obama's travel expenditures to be closer to $100 million.
In 2016, the figure was thought to be even lower, estimated at $85 million.
Judicial Watch focused on trips that they deemed to be non-essential, such as golfing,
vacations, fundraisers, campaign stops, and talk show appearances.
Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch's president, said he was frustrated that it required several
federal lawsuits to get the government to release this information, especially since
he felt the public deserved to know where their tax-funded dollars were going to.
"It shouldn't require federal lawsuits to prod the Secret Service and Air Force to
produce information about the costs of presidential travel – whether the travel is necessary
or not, it's a massive amount of money," said Mr. Fitton.
"We will continue to monitor this spending while taxpayers continue to pay the bills
for presidential travel."
He also mentioned that it is troubling to see such massive amounts of money being paid
on trips that "appear to have minimal value to the public interest," while at the same
time hoping that President Trump "can immediately save taxpayers money by reforming presidential
travel."
At the moment, President Trump's total travel costs are calculated at just over $10 million
in his first year, lower than the average $14 million spent on travel expenses during
Barack Obama's tenure.
Most Americans would agree that these costs are wasteful expenses that could be better
spent elsewhere.
As the nation deals with a $20 trillion dollar national debt, these kinds of expenditures
need to be curtailed.
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New Report Exposes How Much Obama REALLY Spent on Vacations — So Much More Than We Thought - Duration: 5:22.
With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas looming, many Americans are wrestling with
their budgets.
Gifts, food, and family trips will most likely add up to a small fortune.
Families will have to scrimp and save in order to go on those holiday vacations they've
been planning.
Unless, of course, you were the Obama family.
New records have come out, proving that former President Barack Obama spent way more on travel
than we previously believed.
Democrats tend to spend.
A LOT.
Their bloated government handouts put a massive burden on hard-working Americans.
We work to fund these liberals' toxic programs.
However, it seems like Barack Obama perfected spending other people's money to an art
form.
Not only did he burn through taxpayer's cash to fund Obamacare, food stamps, and wasteful
agencies, he was spending our money personally like a drunk kid on prom night!
Last year, it was reported that Obama spent over $85 million dollars of taxpayer money
to fund his trips and campaign expenses, but conservative group Judicial Watch has just
acquired records that show a whole lot more.
The real total cost of Barack Obama's family travel and campaigning amounts to a whopping
$114 million.
That's your money folks.
Newly released presidential travel records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force
and the Secret Service show that former President Barack Obama's family vacations and campaign
expenses cost taxpayers $114 million…
The latest batch of documents released by the two agencies shows that the Obamas spent
$9,028,346.90 on non-work related travel, bringing the total amount of personal travel
expenses during Obama's presidency to $114,691,322.17.
[Source: Breitbart] None of us should be surprised that Obama
spent lots of our money while in office.
However, this amount really takes the cake.
You can expect costs related to work travel.
The President goes all around the world to meet with leaders and attends important summits.
With him go staff, personnel, and Secret Service.
Security needs to clear every place the President goes to ensure it is safe.
That kind of legwork doesn't come cheap.
However, knowing this is a burden the Secret Service goes through every time Obama boarded
an airplane, you'd think the man would have been a bit more conscientious and perhaps
reduce the amount of vacationing and campaigning, you know, for the sake of the taxpayer.
Nope!
The additional records show Secret Service and Air Force expenses for two Obama family
vacations that took place the weekend of February 14, 2014, and two campaign trips Michelle
Obama made to North Carolina to campaign for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The two vacations, which included Michelle Obama's annual trip to Aspen, Colorado,
with her daughters and former President Obama's annual golfing trip to Palm Springs, cost
the Secret Service $272,192.91, records show.
[Source: Breitbart] Of course, there were Michelle's campaign
trips.
Those cost the Air Force $40,902.40.
The plane she flew in had an operating cost of $5,312 per hour!
President Obama also traveled to Chicago numerous times during the last three years of his presidency.
The cost?
A mere $7 million.
And, guess what?
He's still traveling on the taxpayers' dime!
But Obama's taxpayer-funded trips did not end there: Secret Service documents showed
that Obama spent nearly $2 million of taxpayer money on post-presidency travel.
The former president's travel destinations, however, were redacted for "privacy" and
"law enforcement" reasons.
[Source: Breitbart] It seemed like Obama viewed the office of
the President as a symbol of wealth and status.
Instead of serving the public, he indulged.
Instead of viewing it as a duty, he partied.
Again and again.
He wasn't so much concerned with improving the United States (or protecting our freedoms)
as he was packing the White House with celebrities and flying on his private plane.
So far, President Donald Trump's travel has cost taxpayers only a fraction of what
Obama spent.
The documents also show that Trump spent $2,821,367.34 on non-work related travel, bringing the total
known travel costs for the president and his family to $10,381,792.35.
Air Force documents show that Trump has spent $1.1 million of taxpayer money on two trips
he made to his Mar-a-Lago resort in April 2017 to meet with Chinese President Ji Jinping
and to celebrate Easter.
[Source: Breitbart] Do you think President Trump's travel will
end up being as costly as Obama's?
Perhaps he'll be a little more considerate with our money?
Let us know your thoughts.
If you have any friends that still think Obama was an amazing President, be sure to show
them these numbers!
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How Important is Sleep for Athletes: Surprising NEW Info - Duration: 3:09.
How important is sleep for athletes?
How important is sleep for athletes I think the answer is going to surprise
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in I'm David Barr and if you're looking to
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that little bell so you don't miss anything so the key to sleep and
recovery is about something called the CNS now the trick is you may have heard
the CNS may be not totally cool but if you've heard of it
most people don't actually know it it sure you can ask and they'll say ok
central nervous system but what is that once you probe further you realize
people don't know what it is really simple an Tomiko distinction brain in
the spinal cord now this is the key to sleep this is why we sleep and this is
relatively new information because what happens when we sleep our brain actually
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it's a bit like a janitor coming in to clean up the crap after a day of school
clean up after the kids the kids come back in the next day and everything is
clean they don't know anything off the jander's work well that's what the
glymphatic system is it's like the janitor when we go to sleep ok that's
why we can't learn when we're sleeping unfortunately but it's helping to
consolidate our memories from the previous day including motor memories so
it's not just things we take in with our eyes and ears it's also going to be
motor learning those skills that we learn during the day it's going to help
bake in the results that we got from the training the day before it's going to
help with that motor learning responsible that strength adaptation
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there is one more trick we do want about six to eight hours of sleep a night
everybody's different but the key is cortisol is a catabolic steroid normally
we don't want this stuff and during sleep it's great that's levels are low
because it's an anti-inflammatory and when we're sleeping we want that
inflammation process to occur inflammation seems like a dirty words
most people it's not when it's part of our
natural growth adaptation recovery response when it gets out of control
then it's a problem but normally we actually want the inflammation response
and that's what the absence of cortisol is going to help facilitate so you
probably notice that you only get sore after you wake up in the morning well
that's because we have low cortisol I think anyway no Dogma here this is also
the other key this absence of cortisol not directly anabolic but by
facilitating by allowing that inflammation response to occur that's
where we're going to have that growth adaptation recovery response that we're
often so sleep is very important but not for the reasons that people think it is
so hopefully the answers your FAQ quick and dirty is a quick and dirty answer
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