View Full Version : How to see India on $200,000,000 a day....
OklahomaTuba
11/2/2010, 04:29 PM
Wonder how long his trip is?
The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs. 900 crore approx) per day on President Barack Obama's visit to the city.
"The huge amount of around $200 million would be spent on security, stay and other aspects of the Presidential visit," a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit said.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/us-to-spend-200-mn-a-day-on-obama-s-mumbai-visit-64106?cp
LosAngelesSooner
11/2/2010, 04:31 PM
I like pie.
Cornfed
11/2/2010, 04:32 PM
Wonder how long his trip is?
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/us-to-spend-200-mn-a-day-on-obama-s-mumbai-visit-64106?cp
Hope he gets room service.
StoopTroup
11/2/2010, 04:32 PM
Ricky Martin is teaching Oprah how to come out of the closet.
She should be on her way to spilling the beans soon.
tommieharris91
11/2/2010, 04:33 PM
Know who else liked to travel a lot? Bill Clinton.
...and Adolf Hitler, but he liked to conquer territories, then travel to them.
OklahomaTuba
11/2/2010, 04:36 PM
The Louisiana Purchase was about $200 Mill. Seriously.
Cornfed
11/2/2010, 04:36 PM
Know who else liked to travel a lot? Bill Clinton.
...and Adolf Hitler, but he liked to conquer territories, then travel to them.
But Hitler never went to India.
But Hitler never went to India.
Alexander the Great didn't either.
LosAngelesSooner
11/2/2010, 04:41 PM
The Louisiana Purchase was about $200 Mill. Seriously.They paid $200 million for THAT swampy ****hole?!?!
What a rip.
landrun
11/2/2010, 05:07 PM
Seriously, you could give every family in the US a million dollars and spend money better.
It doesn't matter if you're liberal or democrat, this wasteful spending has to stop!
dwarthog
11/2/2010, 05:09 PM
The Louisiana Purchase was about $200 Mill. Seriously.
200 mil just doesn't go as far as it used to....
Cornfed
11/2/2010, 05:11 PM
Alexander the Great didn't either.
he invaded India in 326 BC.
sooner59
11/2/2010, 05:19 PM
They paid $200 million for THAT swampy ****hole?!?!
What a rip.
It was actually $15 million. But today would be equivalent to $217 million. So yeah that's pretty accurate. But I doubt they were overly concerned with the swampy ****hole as much as they were the rest of what was acquired. :D
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/United_States_1803-04-1804-03.png
salth2o
11/2/2010, 08:33 PM
Pookie gotta get his and live like a king while he can.
SunnySooner
11/2/2010, 08:47 PM
The L.P. included the future Great State of Oklahoma. And they only paid $200 mil.? That's a steal for OK alone!!! All that other land is just gravy!!! Without the L.P., we wouldn't have the Sooners!!!! Dang, the gubmint back then got that deal CHEAP!!!! :D :D :D :D
mgsooner
11/2/2010, 09:51 PM
http://www.maniacworld.com/i-like-turtles.jpg
That does seem ridiculous. Why is it a surprise though? Presidents and congressman live like freakin kings these days.
Midtowner
11/2/2010, 10:56 PM
Let me be the first to call B.S. on this article. What's your source? Methodology for counting $200MM a day?
GKeeper316
11/2/2010, 11:02 PM
They paid $200 million for THAT swampy ****hole?!?!
What a rip.
most of what is now the state of oklahoma was part of the louisiana purchase...
GKeeper316
11/2/2010, 11:04 PM
The L.P. included the future Great State of Oklahoma. And they only paid $200 mil.? That's a steal for OK alone!!! All that other land is just gravy!!! Without the L.P., we wouldn't have the Sooners!!!! Dang, the gubmint back then got that deal CHEAP!!!! :D :D :D :D
we got it cheap because of the revolution in haiti.
AlbqSooner
11/3/2010, 06:28 AM
Let me be the first to call B.S. on this article. What's your source? Methodology for counting $200MM a day?
Over the 10 days of the trip, that comes to 2 Billion. I question that.
Let me be the first to call B.S. on this article. What's your source? Methodology for counting $200MM a day?
Plenty of sources here: Link (http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+trip+to+india+cost&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)
oumartin
11/3/2010, 08:34 AM
Whatever money air force one costs he could save by just flapping his ears and flying that way.
TUSooner
11/3/2010, 08:38 AM
India >>>>> Pakistan, so it's probably worth it.
PS- Obama should stay home and watch TV like George Washington did.
he invaded India in 326 BC.
Nonsense! Iron Maiden said that his soldiers wouldn't follow him to India, tired of the combat, the pain, and teh glory....
OklahomaTuba
11/3/2010, 08:43 AM
Worth it? hahaha
Please, do tell how flying 3,000 people to India and spending more than what the Louisiana purchase cost is "worth it"?????
OklahomaTuba
11/3/2010, 08:43 AM
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ObamasEvac2India-600x393.jpg
Except I don’t think that evacuating Saigon cost $200 million a day.
TUSooner
11/3/2010, 09:11 AM
Worth it? hahaha
Please, do tell how flying 3,000 people to India and spending more than what the Louisiana purchase cost is "worth it"?????
Of course it's an obscene amount of money. But you bark and howl like Obama invented travel on the taxpayer's dime, not to mention every other gubment evil. It's that kind of hysterical indignation and over-reaction that has cost you your credibility. Them's just the facts the facts as I have observed them over the last 6 or so years.
TUSooner
11/3/2010, 09:17 AM
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ObamasEvac2India-600x393.jpg
That's pretty much how I felt about leaving my past job 10 years ago.
"Get me outtahere now!"
ddub0224
11/3/2010, 09:27 AM
Of course it's an obscene amount of money. But you bark and howl like Obama invented travel on the taxpayer's dime, not to mention every other gubment evil. It's that kind of hysterical indignation and over-reaction that has cost you your credibility. Them's just the facts the facts as I have observed them over the last 6 or so years.
You are right - every administration has done it and each time the other side bashed them for it. I think the issue this time though has a little more merit due to the number of people going over, and the total cost. The cost being harder to handle given the state of our economy. Yes you have to balance domestic & foreign policy, but push come to shove you have to concentrate on home. I would think he could easily cut that cost in half. 3,000 people?
hipsterdoofus
11/3/2010, 09:30 AM
I agree that the article seems like a huge stretch...
More likely 200 million rupees a day..
texaspokieokie
11/3/2010, 09:50 AM
i heard that 40 airplanes are required along with 2 or 3 helicopters that have to be partially dis-assembled & put back together.
they're using all of a 500 plus room hotel.
don't know about 200 mil per day, but this is way beyond reason.
he wants us to all drive "smart" cars.
hipsterdoofus
11/3/2010, 10:12 AM
I'd like to see a President that puts his money where his mouth is - and I'm not going after any party - but how about one that shuts down a side of the white house, lives of of a few rooms - quits going on trips like this? Again, both sides do it...none of them "change" anything.
texaspokieokie
11/3/2010, 10:18 AM
I'd like to see a President that puts his money where his mouth is - and I'm not going after any party - but how about one that shuts down a side of the white house, lives of of a few rooms - quits going on trips like this? Again, both sides do it...none of them "change" anything.
i don't think i've ever heard about of a trip that was this outrageous.
maybe all those soldiers going to europe during WWII.
Cornfed
11/3/2010, 01:56 PM
Nonsense! Iron Maiden said that his soldiers wouldn't follow him to India, tired of the combat, the pain, and teh glory....
Oh, I forgot Bruce was the king of history.....:)
NormanPride
11/3/2010, 02:04 PM
Is it possible to cut the trip and then just give money to everyone? because I know I'd stimulate the hell out of the economy with that.
Cornfed
11/3/2010, 02:05 PM
Is it possible to cut the trip one day short and then just give a million dollars to everyone? because I know I'd stimulate the hell out of the economy with that.
I'll bet we'd have a stimulated speaker as well.
I'd like to see a President that puts his money where his mouth is - and I'm not going after any party - but how about one that shuts down a side of the white house, lives of of a few rooms - quits going on trips like this? Again, both sides do it...none of them "change" anything.
I think Presidents already live in only half of the White House, the so-called West Wing. The other half is the part they let people walk through, like the Green Room.
stoopified
11/3/2010, 04:55 PM
Is it possible to cut the trip and then just give money to everyone? because I know I'd stimulate the hell out of the economy with that.True dat
3,000 people? 200 CEO's? All for one economic summit on the countrys dime? Is that right? Wtf?
landrun
11/3/2010, 06:55 PM
Is it possible to cut the trip and then just give money to everyone? because I know I'd stimulate the hell out of the economy with that.
I said this earlier in this thread.
If they're really spending 200mil a day, or even just 200 mil on this entire trip, it is so offensive it is unbelievable.
There were 308 million Americans in Dec. 09.
The average family now has 2.6 people in it.
That equates to 118,461,538 families in the US. Just under 120 million families.
You could literally give every family in America 1 million dollars $1,000,000.00, cancel this trip and save the US tax payer over 80 million dollars.
Just think about that! Truly obscene! :mad: :mad:
Math is hard... :D
I said this earlier in this thread.
If they're really spending 200mil a day, or even just 200 mil on this entire trip, it is so offensive it is unbelievable.
There were 308 million Americans in Dec. 09.
The average family now has 2.6 people in it.
That equates to 118,461,538 families in the US. Just under 120 million families.
You could literally give every family in America 1 million dollars $1,000,000.00, cancel this trip and save the US tax payer over 80 million dollars.
Just think about that! Truly obscene! :mad: :mad:
I think your math is off. Regardless it is obscene.
landrun
11/3/2010, 07:11 PM
I think your math is off. Regardless it is obscene.
Just a little though :( :eek: :D ..
finster
11/3/2010, 07:57 PM
We saved a little money last night,This was a Boeing 757 seating chart.
http://i56.tinypic.com/n4vcqe.jpg
I said this earlier in this thread.
If they're really spending 200mil a day, or even just 200 mil on this entire trip, it is so offensive it is unbelievable.
There were 308 million Americans in Dec. 09.
The average family now has 2.6 people in it.
That equates to 118,461,538 families in the US. Just under 120 million families.
You could literally give every family in America 1 million dollars $1,000,000.00, cancel this trip and save the US tax payer over 80 million dollars.
Just think about that! Truly obscene! :mad: :mad:
Math is hard... :D
The only problem with doing this is all of a sudden a Big Mac would cost you $50,000 and a newspaper would go for like 10 grand.
hipsterdoofus
11/4/2010, 10:34 AM
Okay..saw that they are taking 34 warships to India for this trip...so maybe the estimate isn't off... pretty disgusting if you ask me - sounds like free vacation for a lot of the white house staff too.
texaspokieokie
11/4/2010, 10:43 AM
maybe they'll all get stranded over there.
soonerscuba
11/4/2010, 10:45 AM
If you some of you got half as antsy over boondoggles in the Mid-East and unfunded liabilities as you did diplomatic envoys to emerging markets and tenuous poltical allies in the WoT this country would be a hell of a lot cooler.
SoonerProphet
11/4/2010, 10:50 AM
If you some of you got half as antsy over boondoggles in the Mid-East and unfunded liabilities as you did diplomatic envoys to emerging markets and tenuous poltical allies in the WoT this country would be a hell of a lot cooler.
No sh!t, rail on the stupid *** spending by the team they don't like, then when it comes to stupid *** spending by their guy they back it %100. The rational for such blind ignorance boggles the mind.
Breadburner
11/4/2010, 11:16 AM
maybe they'll all get stranded over there.
You beat me to it....!!!!!!
TUSooner
11/4/2010, 11:26 AM
Okay..saw that they are taking 34 warships to India for this trip...so maybe the estimate isn't off... pretty disgusting if you ask me - sounds like free vacation for a lot of the white house staff too.
Why do you hate the United States Navy?!
hipsterdoofus
11/4/2010, 11:54 AM
Why do you hate the United States Navy?!
I don't...those were two separate items... white house staff/ warships - not the same people
TUSooner
11/4/2010, 11:56 AM
I don't...those were two separate items... white house staff/ warships - not the same people
Psst. It was a joke.
No sh!t, rail on the stupid *** spending by the team they don't like, then when it comes to stupid *** spending by their guy they back it %100. The rational for such blind ignorance boggles the mind.
Nobody said they were happy with other wastes of money, Jackwagon. We're talking about this gigantic waste of money.
virginiasooner
11/4/2010, 12:53 PM
I'm still waiting for someone to point to an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT SOURCE that says this trip will cost $200 million a day. And don't point me to some source on the interwebs that cites this number. And as for cost of security, do you want a repeat of Mumbai while Obama is in town? I hope not.
Harry Beanbag
11/4/2010, 12:54 PM
Nobody said they were happy with other wastes of money, Jackwagon. We're talking about this gigantic waste of money.
Don't worry about it. He's just one of the Everyone Is An Idiotic Hypocrite Except For Me crowd. There are a lot of them around here.
Harry Beanbag
11/4/2010, 12:56 PM
I'm still waiting for someone to point to an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT SOURCE that says this trip will cost $200 million a day. And don't point me to some source on the interwebs that cites this number. And as for cost of security, do you want a repeat of Mumbai while Obama is in town? I hope not.
I'd kinda like to see that as well, the numbers seem a little too outrageous. But I'm not holding my breath that there is an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT SOURCE..
soonerscuba
11/4/2010, 12:57 PM
Evil, Muslim, Nazi Socialism. (http://factcheck.org/2010/11/ask-factcheck-trip-to-mumbai/)
TUSooner
11/4/2010, 01:01 PM
Don't worry about it. He's just one of the Everyone Is An Idiotic Hypocrite Except For Me crowd. There are a lot of them around here.
<raises hand>
So?! What're YOU lookin' at ?!
:D
LosAngelesSooner
11/4/2010, 01:06 PM
It was actually $15 million. But today would be equivalent to $217 million. So yeah that's pretty accurate. But I doubt they were overly concerned with the swampy ****hole as much as they were the rest of what was acquired. :D
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/United_States_1803-04-1804-03.png
Somebody needs to turn on their Sarcasm Detector.
virginiasooner
11/4/2010, 01:07 PM
When all else fails, check Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/india.asp
Probably false.
tommieharris91
11/4/2010, 01:13 PM
When all else fails, check Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/india.asp
Probably false.
Snopes has been derided here as liberal, communist, socialist, fascist, and Nazi all at the same time by OklahomaTuba is my Clone!
SoonerProphet
11/4/2010, 01:17 PM
Nobody said they were happy with other wastes of money, Jackwagon. We're talking about this gigantic waste of money.
What is the difference wiseazz?? Bureaucratic waste by the ruling class is what it is. So I assume you prefer one anal lube over the other when you get *** plunged.
SoonerProphet
11/4/2010, 01:18 PM
Don't worry about it. He's just one of the Everyone Is An Idiotic Hypocrite Except For Me crowd. There are a lot of them around here.
Takes one to know one.
hipsterdoofus
11/4/2010, 01:19 PM
Psst. It was a joke.
I know...thats my bit...I post replies to things that are obvious :texan:
virginiasooner
11/4/2010, 01:20 PM
Snopes has been derided here as liberal, communist, socialist, fascist, and Nazi all at the same time by OklahomaTuba is my Clone!
Or as Stephen Colbert would say, facts have a well known liberal bias.
Boarder
11/4/2010, 01:33 PM
http://usat.me?129950
Hopefully USA Today will be more highly thought of by everyone.
No, President Obama's trip is not going to cost $200 million a day.
That figure -- first thrown out by a single Indian media outlet and now viral on conservative talk radio -- is wildly, wildly off the mark.
LosAngelesSooner
11/4/2010, 01:43 PM
USA Today?
Pbbbbbt!
Liberal Rag.
virginiasooner
11/4/2010, 01:54 PM
USA Today?
Pbbbbbt!
Liberal Rag.
Never let facts get in the way of your paranoia.
LosAngelesSooner
11/4/2010, 02:33 PM
Never let facts get in the way of your paranoia.
That "wooshing sound" was the sound of my sarcasm flying over your head. ;)
Cornfed
11/4/2010, 02:39 PM
That "wooshing sound" was the sound of my sarcasm flying over your head. ;)
I thought it had to slap you in the face to be accepted as sarcasm.....;)
Frozen Sooner
11/4/2010, 02:40 PM
Don't worry. They've repeated the lie enough times that it's true.
Cornfed
11/4/2010, 02:42 PM
What's funny is 2 years from now this will be brought up as common fact....lol
(no I did not vote for BHO)
virginiasooner
11/4/2010, 02:46 PM
That "wooshing sound" was the sound of my sarcasm flying over your head. ;)
I stand rightly chastised. My sarcasm meter is on the fritz right now thanks to a nasty cold.
OklahomaTuba
11/4/2010, 04:19 PM
http://usat.me?129950
Hopefully USA Today will be more highly thought of by everyone.
Strange that they never actually say how much it will cost.
So 3,000 people, 34 warships, and then this:
Since it is difficult to monitor such a congested area, they came up with a quick solution which left the Indians accompanying them amazed: A bomb-proof over-ground tunnel — to be installed by US military engineers in just an hour.
The tunnel would be a kilometre long and measure 12ft by 12ft — enough to let Obama’s cavalcade pass through. The tunnel would be centrally air-conditioned, fitted with close-circuit television cameras, and will be heavily guarded at every point, including, of course, its entry and exit.http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_tunnel-for-obama-near-mani-bhavan_1461946
So maybe it's MORE???
Boarder
11/4/2010, 04:54 PM
Also strange that all the numbers of people and warships have no source, either. This whole story is like some sort of bizzare wiki-news where anyone can just throw out facts and they are accepted as truth.
Somewhere there is a bunch of people sitting around a computer laughing their butts off.
tommieharris91
11/4/2010, 05:05 PM
So maybe it's MORE???
$3000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000 per day.
ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!!!!!
http://www.mauchle.name/images/dr-evil.jpg
tommieharris91
11/4/2010, 05:24 PM
ONE HUNDRED QUINTILLION DOLLARS!!!!!
http://www.mauchle.name/images/dr-evil.jpg
Fixt
tommieharris91
11/4/2010, 05:25 PM
OBAMA IS GOING TO 5000X THE NATIONAL DEBT WITH THIS ! TRIP
LosAngelesSooner
11/4/2010, 05:30 PM
Strange that they never actually say how much it will cost.
So 3,000 people, 34 warships, and then this:
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_tunnel-for-obama-near-mani-bhavan_1461946
So maybe it's MORE???TUBA FACT UPDATE ALERT!!!!
Not only THAT, but the tunnel is made out of solid gold and has Obama's native Kenyan music pumped through it at all times so he'll feel right at home.
:les:NEXT FACT!!!!
Maybe they were talking about it costing 200 million rupees daily? That works out to about 4.5 million US dollars at current exchange rates. I'd be willing to accept that amount more readily. Still's a lot tho.
LosAngelesSooner
11/5/2010, 02:06 PM
Even further debunked on CNN by Anderson Cooper.
Man...I love it when Tuba/Clone gets outraged by false stories. We're good for at least ONE of these types of threads EVERY SINGLE WEEK. :D
TUSooner
11/5/2010, 02:11 PM
Re: 34 warships. If it weren't for this trip, those ships would in port or mothballs, eh Tuba?
LosAngelesSooner
11/5/2010, 02:17 PM
And that's if we ignore the Pentagon guy who today announced, while rolling his eyes and laughing, that the 34 warship lie was "absurd."
Frozen Sooner
11/5/2010, 02:31 PM
And that's if we ignore the Pentagon guy who today announced, while rolling his eyes and laughing, that the 34 warship lie was "absurd."
Why are you calling the military liars LAS? Obviously that guy would be lying if he said that. Tuba heard it from Daily Mail!
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