How much tax money has he spent on vacations, receptions, etc?
So far as I can remember, he hasn't taken as much vacation time as Bush did for his comparable length of time in office, and I remember hearing of his paying for the remodeling out of his personal coffers instead of tax money too. Travels in relation to the job are always going to be expensive because of this job, just it could be worse in some areas because of his race and maybe even with the decimation of alQaeda has probably made him a bigger target for them than even Bush was. I can't necessarily go after him for his recent vacation trip to Hawaii, the man's got family there after all. Being able to use Air Force One and having a Secret Service detail while campaigning usually is a perk all incumbant presidents get, but I have heard whining about that for the first time that I remember with his re-election attemt.
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