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