Green light: It’s okay to
blow a bunch of cash on Vegas again. Well,
taxpayer cash anyway:
President Barack Obama will fly over 9 hours tomorrow, round-trip from Washington, D.C. to Las Vegas, Nevada, just to deliver a speech on immigration, according to the president’s White House schedule. With Air Force One estimated to cost $182,000 per hour in flight, Obama’s trip — that is, only his travel to and from Vegas — will cost taxpayers over $1.6 million.
Obama has no other public events scheduled in Las Vegas but his immigration speech.
A round trip, 5,000 mile AF-1 flight burning somewhere in the neighborhood of 25,000 gallons of fuel for one address at a high school will also be the perfect set-up for Obama’s next speech on global warming. Add in other planes, motorcade, helicopter, security, teleprompter support staff, etc., and this might amount to over a $2 million speech. That’s enough to pay off Anna Wintour’s boyfriend’s
back taxes with some left to spare.
