Name:   water_watcher - Subject:   Michelle Obama's letter to tax payers Date:   7/11/2012 8:56:00 PM

Dear American Taxpayer

For only the second time in my adult life, I am not

ashamed of my country.  I want to thank the hard

working American people for paying $242 thousand

dollars for my vacation in Spain .

My daughter Sasha, several long-time family friends,

my personal staff and various guests had a wonderful time. 

Honestly, you just haven't lived until you have stayed

in a $2,500.00 per night private 3-story villa at a 5-Star luxury hotel.

Thank you also for the use of Air Force Two
and the 70 Secret Service personnel who tagged

along to be sure we were safe and cared for at all times.

By the way, if you happen to be visiting the Costa del Sol ,

I highly recommend the Buenaventura Plaza restaurant

in Marbella ; great lobster with rice and oysters!

I'm ashamed to admit the lobsters we ate in Martha's Vineyard were not quite as tasty,
but what can you do if you're not in Europe , you have to just grin and bear it?

Air Force Two (which costs $11,351 per hour to operate
according to Government Accounting Office reports)

only used 47,500 gallons of jet fuel for this trip

and carbon emissions were a mere 1,031 tons of CO2.

These are only rough estimates, but they are close.

That's quite a carbon footprint as my good friend

Al Gore would say, so we must ask the American

citizens to drive smaller, more fuel efficient cars and

drive less too, so we can lessen our combined

carbon footprint.

I know times are hard and millions of you are struggling

to put food on the table and trying to make ends meet.

So I do appreciate your sacrifices and do hope you

find work soon.

I was really exhausted after Barack took our family

on a luxury vacation in Maine a few weeks ago.

I just had to get away for a few days.

Cordially,
Michelle (Moochelle) Obama

P.S. Thank you as well for the $2 BILLION dollar trip

to India from which we just returned!  

P.SS. Thank you, too, for that vacation trip to

Martha's Vineyard; it was fabulous.

And thanks for that second smaller jet that took our

dog Bo to Martha's Vineyard so we and the children

could have him with us while we were away from the

White House for eleven days. After all, we couldn't

take him on Air Force One because he might pee

on some wires or something.

P.SSS. Oh, I almost forgot to say thanks also for

our two-week trip to Hawaii at Christmas. That 7,000

square foot house was great!

P.SSSs don't forget my ski trip to Vail this winter

and now the girls and I are in Africa with my mom.

All this while Barack golf’s and campaigns to

keep my trips coming for the next 4 years !

Love Ya!Remember,  we all have to share the pain of these

economic times equally!

Love to -redistribute- share- the wealth.