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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
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Ok...Ok...Ok if we really want to look at how much a president spends and the things that are lost we can. Every President has used Air Force one as their private taxi, because they had to...every President has flown their family around on Marine One and Air Force One. Every President has had a place other than Camp David to get away. Obamas was Hawaii, G W Bush was Texas Ranch, Clinton was wherever the ladies were, G H W Bush was Kennebunkport and so on and so on. It is a fact of life that they will spend the dollars and the press will spin it anyway they can to make their favorite President and party look good. It is a matter of business and we as America need to look at what the President is doing for us versus the personal price tag. I am not an Obama fan by any stretch of the imagination but these cost are just what they are and if we looked at every presidency we would see that there were "shenanigans" going on...it is politics. IMHO Obama stunk as a president and in my thoughts, will probably go down as one of the worst in history when all the smoke clears and the historians put it to task. But as far as spending money frivolously...that finger can be pointed in every presidential direction.
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The ladies!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha. true though.
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SPC Kevin Ford
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Right off the bat I'd try clicking on that very first link in the story and see if the CBS news article supports the claim in the article. It doesn't.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-phantom-districts-get-stimulus-cash/

"But anyone with a computer can still easily find out the name of the business or agency that received the money, which city and state it is located, where the money came from, how much it received, and what it's for.

ZIP code 35025 doesn't exist. Neither does Virginia's 12th District.

But it's easy to find out that the mistyped ZIP code was Birmingham, submitted by a subcontractor working on an Air Force repair contract. And that the Triangle Volunteer Fire Department in Nathalie, Va., spent $50,000 in grant money on a dozen masks and tanks for rescue crews."
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Interesting that the site whose conclusion CBS debunks contains a document link that no longer exists. http://watchdog.org/1530/6-4-billion-stimulus-goes-to-phantom-districts/
Funny how that happens...
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SN (Join to see) You won't see any outrage from the dems, they'll avoid anything that puts their party in a bad light.

2. (rules for radicals) "Never go outside the expertise of your people." It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
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