 Dear American Taxpayer
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- 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 for my vacation in Spain .
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- 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 private
3-story villa at a 5-Star luxury hotel.
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- Thank you also for the use of Air Force Two and the 70
Secret Service personnel who tagged along to be sure we were safe and cared
for at all times. By the way, if you happen to be visiting the Costa del
Sol, I highly recommend the Buenaventura Plaza restaurant in Marbella ;
great lobster with rice and oysters! I'm ashamed to admit the lobsters
we ate in Martha's Vineyard were not quite as tasty, but what can you do
if you're not in Europe , you have to just grin and bear it?
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- Air Force Two (which costs $11,351 per hour to operate
according to Government Accounting Office reports) only used 47,500 gallons
of jet fuel for this trip and carbon emissions were a mere 1,031 tons of
CO2. These are only rough estimates, but they are close. 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.
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- I know times are hard and millions of you are struggling
to put food on the table and trying to make ends meet. So I do appreciate
your sacrifices and do hope you find work soon.
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- 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.
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- Cordially,
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- Michelle (Moochelle) Obama
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- P.S. Thank you as well for the $2 BILLION dollar trip
to India from which we just returned!
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- P.SS. Thank you, too, for that vacation trip to Martha's
Vineyard ; it was fabulous. And thanks for that second smaller jet that
took our dog Bo to Martha's Vineyard so we and the children could have
him with us while we were away from the White House for eleven days. After
all, we couldn't take him on Air Force One because he might pee on some
wires or something.
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- P.SSS. Oh, I almost forgot to say thanks also for our
two-week trip to Hawaii at Christmas. That 7,000 square foot house was
great!
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- Love ya!
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- Remember we all have to share the pain of these economic
times equally! Love to -redistribute- share- the wealth.
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