Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   To hypocritical liberals Date:   3/28/2018 10:49:48 AM

I don't disagree that some conservatives can be hypocrites, but I am responding to your post calling out conservatives and claiming to be a fellow fiscal hawk.  I defy you to find any liberal complaints about the Obama's travel costs.  I would also love to hear how she reimbursed the government for her travel expenses from something other than alleged "fact checkers", which are nothing more than liberal rags pretending to be objective.  What they did was pay for their "personal" expenses like fish and chips and seeing a Harry Potter movie while in London.  But I can assure you the government paid for her 757 travel.  A 757 costs around $14,000 per hour to operate.  When she and the girls flew home from London separate from Obama that cost the taxpayers around $130,000 for the plane alone.  Please provde me with the proof that they cut a check to the federal goverment for that amount.  They could have traveled with the President but they didn't.  And that happened all the time.  Here is an article about Michelle Obama's travel at taxpayer cost over a very short period of time.

https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/michelle-obama-travel-expenses/

The point is not the tit for tat about who spent how much but to demonstrate that liberals have zero crediibility complaining about these costs.  I resent the spending by the federal and state governments because they come at the expense of hard working, taxpaying Americans.  And I don't care whether its a Republican or a Democrat.  I only vote for Republicans because they are the slightly lesser of the two evils.

As for the trillions Obama added, most of it was wasted responding to a recession that ended about the time he took office.  Check out the revenue to the treasury during his 8 years and you will see record after record.  And all that despite his anti-business, anti-growth policies that gave him another record as the only U.S. President to never see 3% GDP growth.  During his first 90 months as President the feds took close to $20 trillion out of the economy (a record) but managed to spend almost $29 trillion (another record).  Compare to W's first 90 months when the Feds collected less than $17 trillion and managed to spend around $20 trillion which added around $3.7 trillion to the national debt.  And all this despite having to deal with 9/11 and the economic mess that followed, which actually happened while he was President and not before like the 2008 recession which was over by 2009.  The fact is we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.  And the latest budget deal is more dung on the heap.  But if you think it would be better with Democrats in control you must have slept through the Obama years.  Either way, until you can demonstrate by previous posts all your angst about the Obama's spending habits you have zero basis for complaining now about the stupidity of Trump nominees.