File this one in …Dumb or Dumber
Ξ May 6th, 2009 | → | ∇ corruption, demwits, duh, economy, personal, politics, work |
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For a half-hour, the Boeing 747 and F-16 jet circled the Statue of Liberty and the Financial District near the World Trade Center site. Offices evacuated. Dispatchers were inundated with calls. Witnesses thought the planes were flying dangerously low.
But the flyover was nothing but a photo op, apparently one of a series of flights to get pictures of the plane in front of national landmarks.
…The director of the White House military office, Louis Caldera, took the blame a few hours later. One of the planes was a 747 that is called Air Force One when used by the president.
Is this how the White House should be spending YOUR MONEY?
According to International Civil Association Organization, the average
direct operating (airborne) cost of a B 747-400 in the year 2000 was
$6,761 per hour. That included $2,620 of fuel costs and $4,141 other
costs. (and that is year 2000 cost … no doubt todays cost would be much more)
And this doesn’t take into account the cost of the two fighter jets that could have been needed doing what they are supposed to be doing!
Louis Caldera should be fired and if not fired his paycheck should be docked for the TOTAL cost of this … PHOTO OP!
Update: Actual cost of this stupidity $328,825. $400,000-$328,825=$71,175 is what Obama should receive this year in salary!
Update: Now O won’t even let the public that paid for these overpriced photos even see them … so far the WH has said STFU and do what you are told like loyal subjects.
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on April 28th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
It does make you wonder.