jlf1961
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Joined: 6/10/2008 From: Somewhere Texas Status: offline
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Melenia Trump does not want to move to the white house so that their son can continue to attend the school he has been. This is all well and good, except: Taxpayers want her to pay for the cost of security for Trump Tower penthouse, and they have some compelling reasons. Trump wants to cut funding to Meals on Wheels, the primary source of healthy food for elderly shut ins. Police Commissioner James O'Neill told lawmakers in February it costs the NYPD between $127,000 and $146,000 a day to protect the first lady and her 11-year-old son Barron. Businesses near Trump Tower are paying the price for tight security for the first lady and her young son, Barron. The Secret Service and NYPD have blocked off sidewalks in front of the tower and set up barricades on surrounding blocks. A survey conducted by City Comptroller Scott Stringer in December 2016 found that of 50 businesses in the area, 80 percent of them are losing business. source The real kicker, is the fact that conservatives both in congress and around the country and on this board bitched about Michelle Obama's trips citing cost of the use of the aircraft, crew AND security for the first family on those jaunts. They continued to bitch even after it came out that the Obama's covered the cost themselves. So, would someone explain why the added security costs, paid for by the Obama family while in the white house, was such a terrible and extravagant expense, and this is perfectly acceptable? Did the Obama family maintain two households, at taxpayer expense, while Obama was in office? No. The simple fact is that if the Obama family (with a lot less financial resources than the Trumps) paid for the added expenses for Michelle and her kids to take extended side trip vacations, why is not okay for the Trump family to at least help defer the cost of maintaining two households and the security costs? Furthermore, if Trump is so big on helping American based businesses, what about the ones that have lost business due to the security measures since he was elected?
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Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think? You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of. Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI
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