Your Tax Dollars At Work… Why Are Taxpayers On The Hook To Pay $1 MILLION For Joe Biden’s Weekend Trips

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Joe Biden is costing taxpayers over $1 million dollars annually for his weekend trips. ~ Tim Brown

A Secret Service agent familiar with Biden’s trips says,

“Biden
leaves every Friday from Joint Base Andrews, so he gets lifts from the
observatory via Marine Two to Andrews Air Force Base, takes off via Air
Force Two, lands in Delaware, and stays the weekend and then comes back
on Sunday nights.”

“Every three or four weeks when it’s warm, he gets up there on
Saturday and then will fly back on Air Force Two,” the agent continues.

“While Air Force Two is sitting on the tarmac at Andrews, he goes and
plays golf with the president at Andrews Air Force Base, gets back on
the plane, and flies back to Delaware. Let me tell you something, that
is egregious.”

The agent also says,

“The Secret Service rents condos in Wilmington
because his schedule is so fluid and never concrete enough to properly
prepare for his visits to Delaware.

So they keep a fully staffed Secret
Service advance team in Delaware in condominiums that we lease so that
when he does these things back and forth to D.C., they’re up there ready
for him to arrive.”

Concerning the spending for Biden’s trips, Newsmax.com reports,

Every Friday, Biden takes a helicopter designated as
Marine Two from the vice president’s residence to Joint Base Andrews in
Maryland and then hops on Air Force Two to fly back to his home in
Delaware. At the end of the weekend, he returns on Air Force Two,
usually a Boeing C-32.

During warm weather, Biden regularly returns to Andrews on the
airplane on Saturdays to play golf at the Air Force base with President
Obama. After the golf game, he flies back to Delaware and returns to
Washington on the plane on Sunday evening — all at taxpayer expense.

The cost of flying Air Force Two is $22,000 an hour, so each
half-hour trip to or from Delaware costs about $10,000. Each golf game
costs taxpayers $20,000. At that rate, the annual cost to taxpayers of
Biden’s weekend trips is well over $1 million.

In addition, the Secret Service rents more than 20 condominiums in
the Wilmington, Del. area for agents who must accompany Biden when he
returns to his home state.

Joe Biden also receives a salary of $230,700 annually along with free
use of the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory, which
is a 9,150 square foot mansion. He has all the amenities in it too:
pool, pool house, indoor gym and stewards who take care of all the
housework and shopping.

While Biden promotes himself as a regular Joe, there is nothing
regular about spending over $1 million annually to take little weekend
trips and golf.

 

Tim Brown – June 8, 2012 – FrontPorchPolitics

 

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