2012 - Your taxe$ paying his campaign's use of gov't planes!

From: rapa Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 Subject:  Obama on the campaign trail--in US Air Force planes!!

How can he get away with this?

     The United States Air Force has established two new aircraft squadrons to support President Obama's travel needs during the campaign season.
      The 305th and 306th Expeditionary Airlift Squadrons were activated as subordinate units of the 89th Airlift Wing on December 1.
      The 305th will operate out of New Castle, DE, with 5 C-130H medium lift transport aircraft, 8 full sets of aircrew, 60 assigned maintenance personnel and 12 operations personnel.
      The 306th will operate out of Andrews AFB, with 4 C-17 heavy lift transports, 7 full aircrew, 60 maintenance personnel, and 10 operations personnel will be assigned.
      Operations for the two squadrons are to commence in April, and will run through the election.  The aircraft and personnel will be released back to their original units after Nov. 2.  Well, isn't that nice of him?

     NOTE: Considering his disdain for the military forces of America, this is truly incredible!  And why doesn't the Democratic National Committee pay for at least part of Obama's campaign expenses?  Furthermore, since Obama has already accumulated countless millions of dollars to support his campaign, why doesn't he use those funds for campaign travels?

     My colleagues and I are taking action!

     We're passing this information to everyone we know, and we plan to file complaints with the news media and every proper member of Congress!

     Regardless of your political affiliation or personal opinions, this man has no right to have ALL American taxpayers pay for his campaign expenses!
     This is factual.  Read it yourself (below): 

http://www.dcmilitary.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111209/NEWS09/712099912/89th-activates-2-eas-squadrons&template=PrinterFriendly  

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Published: Friday, December 9, 2011
89th activates 2 EAS squadrons 

By 89th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

     The 89th Airlift Wing activated the 305th and 306th Expeditionary Airlift Squadrons here Dec. 1. 
     The squadrons will play an integral role supporting presidential airlift in the coming months, through a mission known as "Banner Express." 
     "The Banner Express mission provides dedicated assets to our highest priority airlift - presidential support, 'said Col Allan Hess, 89th Operations Group commander. "Air Mobility Command accomplishes this during election years by standing up two squadrons, C-17s based here, and C-130s based in Wilmington, Del."
     Aircraft and personnel are pre-positioned to support an expected surge in airlift so the Air Force is postured to more efficiently and effectively meet the needs of the commander in chief while remaining good stewards of taxpayer funds. During the 2004 election season, Banner Express operations saved more than $18 million, largely from fuel savings.
     The 305th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, commanded by Lt. Col. Alonzo Bristol of the 142nd Airlift Squadron, will operate out of New Castle Air National Guard Base, Del., and will have approximately eight aircrews, 60 maintenance personnel, and about a dozen operations personnel supporting five C-130s. 
     The 306th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, commanded by Lt. Col. Ben Vorhees of the 315th Operations Group, Joint Base Charleston, SC., will operate from here, and will have seven aircrews, more than 60 maintenance personnel, and also nearly a dozen operations personnel supporting four C-17s. 
     "This will be an integral total force component of our Sam Fox team here at the 89th Airlift Wing," Hess said. Both commanders represent the Air Reserve Component and the squadrons' members include active duty, reserve and Air National Guard Airmen. Both the 305th and 306th Expeditionary Airlift Squadrons were originally constituted as the 305th and 306th Troop Carrier Squadrons in 1943, and were deactivated in 1951 and 1972, respectively. The squadrons played a significant part in Air Mobility Command history conducting "D-Day" airborne operations during Operation Neptune.
     The squadrons also participated in Operation Market Garden in September of 1944, and Operation Varsity in March of 1945, which led to the successful breach of the Rhine River into the heartland of Nazi Germany and ultimately the end of World War II only two months later. The squadrons were re-activated in 2003 under a provisional status for Air Mobility Command's Banner Express Mission. They are expected to commence operations in April 2012 and will deactivate in late November.

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Nov 2 '10/'12 - Party of 'O' accomplishments! List'em, Read'em!

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S RECORD FROM THE OUTRAGEOUS TO THE ABSURD:

$26.2 Trillion:   Projected Federal Debt In 2020 Due To Obama's Binge Spending. (OMB, 7/23/10)

$13.6 Trillion:   Current National Debt. (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 10/19/10)

$8.5 Trillion:     Cumulative Deficits Caused By President Obama's Proposed Budget, FY2011-2020. (OMB, 7/23/10)

$3.9 Trillion:     Total Cost Of The Democrats' Tax Hike To Taxpayers. (Joint Committee On Taxation, 8/6/10)

$3.0 Trillion:     Amount Added To The National Debt Since Obama Took Office. (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 10/19/10)

$2.5 Trillion:     True Cost Of ObamaCare Once Fully Implemented. (Sen. Max Baucus, Floor Remarks, 12/2/09)

$1.42 Trillion:   Federal Budget Deficit For FY2009 – Highest In U.S. History. (Congressional Budget Office, 10/7/10)

$1.29 Trillion:   Federal Budget Deficit For FY2010 – Second Highest In U.S. History. (Congressional Budget Office, 10/7/10)

$868.4 Billion:  American Debt Held By China. (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 10/19/10)

$831 Billion:     Net Interest Payment On Our National Debt In 2020 Due To Obama's Budget. (OMB, 7/23/10)

$814 Billion:     Price Tag Of Obama's Failed Stimulus. (Bloomberg, 8/20/10)

$575 Billion:     Amount Of Medicare Cuts In ObamaCare. (CMS Chief Actuary Richard S. Foster, Memo, 4/22/10)

$569.2 Billion:  Amount Of Taxes In ObamaCare. (Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 3/18/10)

$10 Billion:      The Cost Of The Teacher Union Bailout. (The Washington Post, 10/8/10)

$54 Million:      Amount Of Stimulus Funds Spent On A Napa Valley Wine Train. (ABC News' "Good Morning America," 2/2/10)

41.8 Million:     Number Of Americans Receiving Food Stamps. (Bloomberg, 10/5/10)

40 Million:        Number Of Businesses That Will Be Burdened By The Onerous IRS 1099 Requirement. (The Washington Post, 8/29/10)

$18 Million:      Cost Of The Stimulus Website Recovery.org. (ABC News' "The Note" Blog, 7/8/09)

14.8 Million:     Unemployed Americans. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10/8/10)

9.5 Million:       Americans Working Part-Time For Economic Reasons. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10/8/10)

6.1 Million:       Americans Unemployed For Longer Than 27 Weeks. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10/8/10)

5.4 Million:       Number Of Properties Receiving Foreclosure Filings Since Obama Took Office. (RealtyTrac, Accessed 10/19/10)

3.8 Million:       Increase In the Number Of People Who Were In Poverty In 2009 Over 2008. (NPR, 9/16/10)

2.6 Million:       Jobs Lost Since Stimulus Was Passed. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10/8/10)

2.3 Million:       Private Sector Jobs Lost Since Stimulus Was Passed. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10/8/10)

1.2 Million:       Americans That Have Given Up Looking For Work. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10/8/10)

964,900:            Number Of Jobs That Could Be Lost Per Year Under Cap And Trade. (Tax Foundation, 3/09)

89,000:             The Number Of Stimulus Checks Sent to Dead Or Incarcerated People. (The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire" Blog, 10/7/10)

$43,000:            Your Share Of The National Debt. ("The Daily History Of The Debt Results," TreasuryDirect, Accessed 10/19/10; U.S. Census Bureau, www.census.gov, Accessed 10/19/10)

23,000:             The Number Of Jobs Obama Knew His Drilling Moratorium Could Kill. (The Wall Street Journal, 8/21/10)

22,000:             Number Of Seniors In MA, NH And ME That Will Lose Their Medicare Advantage Plans As A Result Of ObamaCare. (The Boston Globe, 9/28/10)

$1,761:             Cost To American Families Per Year As A Result Of Cap And Trade. (CBS News' "Taking Liberties" Blog, 9/16/09)

$1,540:             The Amount Of The Tax Hike The Average Middle Class Family Will See As A Result Of The Dems' Tax Hike. (Tax Foundation, 8/1/10)

1099:                The IRS Form Every Business Will Have To File After Doing $600 Worth Of Business With A Vendor. (CNNMoney.com, 5/5/10)

100:                  Percent Of GDP That Our National Debt Will Rise To In 2012. (Office Of Management And Budget, 7/23/10)

83:                    Number Of Fundraisers Obama Has Attended As Of 10/12/10. (CBS News' Mark Knoller's Twitter Feed, Accessed 10/19/10; CBS News, 8/16/10)

80:                    Percent Of Small Businesses That Could Be Forced To Change Health Care Plans As A Result Of ObamaCare. (The Washington Post, 6/15/10)

79:                    Percent Of Stimulus Funds For Wind, Solar And Geothermal Energy Projects That Went To Foreign Firms. (Investigating Reporting Workshop/ABC's World News Tonight/Watchdog Institute, 2/8/10)

68:                    Percent Of Americans Who Think The Stimulus Was A Waste. (The Hill's "Briefing Room" Blog, 10/5/10)

60:                    The Percent Of Young Voters Who Are "More Cynical About Politics" Now Than When Obama Was Elected. (The Huffington Post, 9/15/10)

58:                    Percent Of Ohioans Who Say Obama's Frequent Visits To The State Make No Difference In How They'll Vote. (The Hill, 10/19/10)

53:                    Rounds Of Golf Played By President Obama Since Taking Office. (CBS News' Mark Knoller's Twitter Feed, Accessed 10/19/10; CBS News' Mark Knoller's Twitter Feed, Accessed 10/19/10 )

49:                    Visits To The White House By Andy Stern, Former President Of SEIU. (WhiteHouse.gov, Accessed 10/19/10)

37:                    Number Of Town Halls Obama Has Done Since Taking Office. (CBS News' Mark Knoller's Twitter Feed, Accessed 10/19/10)

33.3:                 Average Number Of Weeks It Takes An Unemployed Worker To Find A Job. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10/8/10)

30:                    Number Of Waivers Granted To Businesses So That The White House Could Avoid Admitting ObamaCare Was Making People Lose Their Health Care Plans. (USA Today, 10/7/10)

27:                    Percent Increase In Premiums By Some Insurers In Colorado As A Result Of ObamaCare. (The Denver Post, 9/20/10)

25:                    DVDs Given To The UK's Prime Minister Gordon Brown On His First Visit. (The Daily Mail (UK), 3/9/10)

20:                    Straight Months That Food Stamp Participation Has Hit A Record. (Bloomberg, 10/5/10)

17.1:                 Percent Of Americans Either Unemployed Or Working Part-Time For Economic Reasons. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10/8/10)

14:                    Straight Months With Unemployment Above 9.5%. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, 10/8/10)

9:                     Number Of Vacations Taken By President Obama. (CBS News, 8/19/10)

4:                     Out Of 10 Likely Voters Who Once Backed Obama But Are Less Supportive Or No Longer Support Obama.  (Bloomberg, 10/12/10)

2:                     Place In The Line Of Succession That Joe Biden Believes He Is In (Hint: He's #1). (CBS News' Mark Knoller's Twitter Feed, Accessed 10/19/10)

2:                     Visits To The White House By Actor George Clooney. (E! Online, 10/12/10)

1:                     Number Of White House Investigations. (CBS News, 10/6/10)

1:                     Teacher Union Bailout To Motivate Teacher Unions For Midterm Elections. (The Washington Post, 10/8/10)

0:                     Other People Obama Will Have Left To Blame For His Failures In 2012. (The American People, 11/6/12)
Read more: http://www.gop.com/index.php/briefing/comments/obama_by_the_numbers#ixzz13X7APFyP

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E-News from Citizens Against Government Waste

From: Citizens Against Government Waste Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 

Porker of the Month:  Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) Porker of the Month for loading up her goodie bag just before Halloween as she prepares to leave the Senate to run for governor of Texas.  While claiming to be a fiscal conservative, the four-term senator requested 149 pork-barrel projects costing $1.6 billion in authorization and appropriations bills for fiscal year 2010.  On September 28, 2009, she told the Austin American-Statesman, "I'm proud of being able to garner Texans' fair share of their tax dollars."  "Sen. Hutchison is repeating the same old insidious quackery about the earmarking process:  that it can be made accountable and that it somehow levels the spending playing field," said CAGW President Tom Schatz.  "The only fair way to distribute the taxpayers' money is to eliminate the practice altogether and instead work to ensure that every dime of taxpayer money is spent using the budget laws and rules that [members of Congress] themselves established."  For personifying the tiresome hypocrisy of some members of Congress who want to claim the badge of fiscal conservatism while continuing to abscond with billions of dollars in wasteful pork projects, CAGW names Sen. Hutchison the October Porker of the Month.  Read more about the Porker of the Month.   CCAGW Releases 2008 Congressional Ratings   The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) has released its 2008 Congressional Ratings, drawing attention to the outstanding voting records of dozens of members of Congress who consistently work to protect tax dollars, as well as to the congressional bottom-dwellers whose votes were hostile to the interests of taxpayers and contributed to a tsunami of new, wasteful spending and an increasingly bloated bureaucracy.  The average vote rating for the entire House of Representatives during 2008, the second session of the 110th Congress, was 35 percent, while the average for the Senate was 38 percent.  In the House, Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) was the sole "Taxpayer Super Hero" with a rating of 100 percent, while 59 House members (the same as in 2007) earned the moniker "Taxpayer Hero" with a rating of 80 percent or above.  However, the number of representatives with a perfectly abysmal score of zero skyrocketed to 34 last year, up from only two in 2007.  In the Senate, there were no "Taxpayer Super Heroes," but 14 senators did earn "Taxpayer Hero" status.  Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) posted the highest rating of 98 percent.  Seventeen senators scored zero, compared to 13 in 2007.  Read more about the 2008 Congressional Ratings.   CAGW to FCC:  Net Neutrality is a Bad Solution in Search of a Non-Existent Problem CAGW once again this month reiterated its strong opposition to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) intention to embark on a regulatory goose chase.  On October 22, the FCC began its ill-conceived venture into drafting new rules and regulations to dictate how broadband companies must manage access to the Internet.  "Contrary to the lingo, 'net neutrality' is anything but neutral," stated CAGW President Tom Schatz.  "The Internet has flourished with a minimum of political intervention.  There is no pressing need for government involvement and no good will come from the government's creating a phony role for itself.  The Internet has been a wide-open playing field for a whole host of fierce competitors and has flourished because of government's benign indifference.  However, the new culture in Washington dictates that there is nothing anymore that is off-limits to the long arm of the feds…Taxpayers will rue the day that government regulation choked off innovation on the Internet…Any new federal regulatory role will necessitate a giant and expensive bureaucracy, whose employees will serve as the Internet police."  Read more about the FCC's planned net neutrality rules. CAGW Seeks Strict Scrutiny of Broadband Stimulus Grants   CAGW this month filed letters with the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) objecting to 23 applications for broadband grants totaling $550 million under the "economic stimulus" bill.  "There have been numerous reports of waste and mismanagement of stimulus funds, such as hundreds of underage 'first-time homebuyers,' including a four-year-old, seeking the $8,000 tax credit," remarked CAGW President Tom Schatz.  "There is a total of $4.7 billion at stake in the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), which should not become another opportunity to waste the taxpayers' money."  CAGW's letters note that the entire NTIA budget in fiscal year 2009 was $658 million.  The $4.7 billion provided in the stimulus bill for the BTOP is 624.5 percent greater than that amount.  NTIA's prior experience in issuing broadband grants was limited to the discontinued Technology Opportunities Program, which provided $233 million in grants from 1994-2004, or 5 percent of the BTOP total.  "In order for NTIA to spend $4.7 billion expeditiously without waste or mismanagement, the agency will have to thoroughly review each application.  There is a September 30, 2010 deadline to spend the stimulus money, so there may be a temptation to just say 'yes' to every applicant," added Schatz.  Read more about the applications for broadband stimulus grants that CAGW has called into question.    Wastewatcher Read the monthly newsletter online.  This month's issue includes the articles: Broadband Boondoggles The 72-Hour Bill:  A Struggle to Read over the Shoulder of Congress Medicare is Afflicted with Chronic Wasting Disease, and it's Catching In the News... Boston Herald (October 29, 2009):  "Web Posts by City Workers are Taxing" CBS News (October 22, 2009):  "Unplugged under 40:  The Battle to Change the BCS" The Dallas Morning News (October 20, 2009):  "Watchdog Group Labels Hutchison a 'Porker'"   Taxpayers Go Trick-or-Treating CAGW provides a list of who deserves tricks and who deserves treats from taxpayers. CAGW President on FOX News CAGW President Tom Schatz will be on "FOX & Friends" on Saturday, October 31, at 9:45 a.m. to discuss wasteful spending in the stimulus package.  Please tune in! Take Action! Tell Congress:  Vote NO on Any Funding for the JSF Alternate Engine! Help Stop ObamaCare NOW! Visit CAGW's Blog! Give us your opinions and tips about government waste in your area on "The Swine Line"! Pork Advisory Level:  SEVERE Read more about the Pork Advisory System.

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