Re: The National Debt
Posted by:
heryougo
()
Date: March 30, 2009 08:10PM
Obama's 500
For the last two weeks, we have watched as politician after politician has pilloried American business executives for using their "corporate" jets.
This week, Obama will fly into London to take part in the G20 summit in the capital's Docklands area. He will not be travelling light.
Accompanying Obama will be an entourage of 500 staff, an armor-plated limousine. a fleet of decoy helicopters, 200 US secret service staff, a six-doctor medical team and his kitchen staff.
More than 500 officials and staff will accompany the president on his tour this week -- along with a mass of high-tech security equipment, including the $300,000 presidential limousine, known as "The Beast." Fitted with night-vision camera, reinforced steel plating, tear-gas cannon and oxygen tanks, the vehicle is the ultimate in heavy armored transport.
US security teams have already carried out three visits to prepare for Obama's first official visit to Britain. The first was a "site survey", the second a "pre-advance visit" which was carried out to pick sites that the president would visit. Finally there was the "advance trip", which took place last week. Its purpose was to set up equipment, sweep venues for electronic bugs, test food for poison and measure air quality for bacteria.
More Obama excess here. . .