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Obamas travel on taxpayer dime

Mon., Dec. 28, 2015

Why is it that we send Michelle Obama to Aspen, Colo., to ski, and we send President Obama and his daughters to New York for a fun-filled vacation, when they have more money than the better percentage of us do, or will ever have? So far in his tenure as president, we have spent $70.5 million of our hard-earned money so they can have a wonderful time, and we are stuck again with no more money for our Social Security benefits while everything else goes up. Just imagine what that $70.5 million plus the $40 million he has set aside to bring refugees into this country could do for our people.

Carleen Reilly

Spokane

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