Why is Obama spending 4 million dollars on vacation when the country is broke?

That's less than the $200 million he spent to vacation in India.

Is your number from the same reliable sources?

The conservative owned media is familiar with precisely how short the attention span is of their poor conned-servative followers. so they might tell the "relax of the story" on the tip because of fact in trouble-free terms the smart will see it. lol

Government spends on goods and services to create our infrastructure. The accumulation of hundreds of years of spending are the roads and bridges, schools and clinics, parks and monuments, police and fire stations, courts and prisons, but especially the armed services that protect everything else. Spending is good!

We need trillions of dollars for infrastructure improvement. We need more spending, not less. Spending is good!

Government spends too much only when it buys scarce resources that could be better used by the private sector. Our scarcest resource is energy and the only way to increase it is by spending more money on insulation, wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, coal, and oil energy sources. Spending is good!

Spending uses idle resources to create new resources. Why not use idle resources? Twenty-five million Americans are drawing benefits instead of creating wealth. Most government waste is due to the failure of government to spend money to convert idle resources into wealth. Spending is good!

What’s bad? Borrowing and paying interest to bond-holders is bad. Instead, print the money and use it to turn idle resources into infrastructure. Sure, there are pros and cons. Pro: Heaven on Earth. Con: inflation, if you print or borrow too much money. Since printing is cheaper than borrowing, print!

Government prints too much money only when its money can’t find idle resources. So, when idle resources become scarce and inflation begins, stop printing and raise interest rates! Is this the only thing preventing Heaven on Earth? Yes! It’s that easy. It’s like watering the lawn; when it’s wet enough, stop sprinkling!

The country is more than broke with the debt at 16 trillion plus an unfunded liabilities at 110 trillion only liberals an complete fools can say we are not broke.

GWB took the most holidays of any president before or after him

Typical of his kind.

If you look at our political history, they are the ones who need cutbacks and restraints, not firearms or medicare! Most Americans take vacations, but few spend this kind of cash unless they are millionaires, or better.

This is why Obama wants to raise the tax on the wealthy, but he leaves the government employees out of that. Add to that companies who send jobs overseas, and still jack the prices WE have to pay, and you see why we're in trouble. There is more money going out than coming in, as the US is a limited source of income now.

You're kidding right? Obama is ashamed to show his face on the east coast. Hurricane Sandy victims are still homeless. He wants to get as far away from them as possible. It wouldn't do for a few hundred thousand protesters to show up and ruin his vacation plans. http://freebeacon.com/the-post-sandy-christmas/

As far as the taxpayer money he is spending, he doesn't care. He believes it's stimulating the economy. That's why he wasted so much on his bogus stimulus package. Obama follows his God, John Maynard Keynes. If inflation is high enough, the debt doesn't matter.

Merry Christmas! May God bless you and yours.

The country has been broke since the early 1800's. Where have you been?

In Hawaii as usual at the posh resorts costing a zillion dollars just to ship their clothes over, separate flights as usual. I'd love a vacation down south a spell but I can't afford it.

That's odd isn't it. Isn't he the one who said “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times …"