For only the second time in my
adult life, I am not ashamed of
my country. I want to thank the
hard working American people
for paying $242 thousand
dollars plus additional expenses
for my vacation in Spain. My
daughter Sasha, several
long-time family friends, my
personal staff and various
guests had a wonderful time.
Honestly, you just haven't lived
until you have stayed in a
$2,500.00 per night suite at a
5-Star luxury hotel. We only
booked 70 rooms for our friends,
staff and family. Thank you also
for the use of Air Force 2 and
the 70 Secret Service personnel
who tagged along to be sure we
were safe and cared for at all
times.
Air Force 2 only used 47,500 gallons of
jet fuel for this trip and carbon
emissions were a mere 1,031 tons of CO2.
It costs only $11,500 per hour to
operate Air Force 2 and each additional
plane for the other members of our party
group. These
are only rough estimates, but they are
close (who's counting?). That's
quite a carbon footprint as my good
friend Al Gore would say, so we must ask
the American citizens to drive smaller,
more fuel efficient cars and drive less
too, so we can lessen our combined
carbon footprint.
I
know times are hard and millions of you are
struggling to put food on the table and trying
to make ends meet. I do appreciate your
sacrifice and do hope you find work soon. I was
really exhausted after Barack took our family on
a luxury vacation in Maine a few weeks ago. I
just had to get away for a few days. Will write
more from Martha's Vineyard where we will spend
our sixth vacation this year with more of our
family and friends.
Cordially,
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