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You know this comes up a lot, the first family travels and it costs the US tax payers money. Nancy Reagan lived like a queen, redid the entire White House and traveled a lot. At first, if memory serves me correctly, she was really applauded for bringing culture and class back to the White House after the Carter years. The as unemployment rose and the economy started to tank she was criticized for it. She was mainly criticized by the left. The Bush Sr. took office and the left again cried fowl at her expenses... again mostly by the left. Enter Hillary and everything she did was a fucking joke according to the right and she was criticized. Then move on to Laura and her trips with her kids. I recently saw news clips that showed her on safari in Africa. Evidently she went there a couple time, mostly on the tax payers dime. And the left complained. Bush spent nearly as much time in Crawford as he did in the Oval Office. And the left complained. Now the Obamas take vacations and trip and the right is throwing fits.
In my opinion it's all a lot of hot air. In this day in age there's nothing Bush couldn't do from Texas that he couldn't do from the Oval Office. Hell back when the world still ran on telegrams Truman spent weeks, maybe months, in Key West (my kinda guy.) The amount of money spent on the travel of the first family is so little compared to the US budget and the good will they spread by showing up in Africa and Spain is probably worth the cost of their travel. I'd be willing to bet Laura and Michelle both had official business on all of these trips.
We get caught up arguing about such little things and calling names that the big issues never ever get solved.
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