Maggie's Farm

Zachass returns with more zachassery. The president only pays the cost of a commercial airline ticket, not the full, much larger cost of one or two or three planes filled with friends, security, press, cars, communications, etc. The plush spas and hotels are courtesy of bundlers and such who, surprise, are often beneficiaries of taxpayer largess. At the White House, they have a large taxpayer stipend to pay for their personal living expenses. -- If you are in the Northeast, go back to bailing out basements rather than trying to sweep away the tide of Obama's abuses of office.

Deny, Deny, Deny all you want Zachass. Denials do not make it so.
Explain, please,for example, the Obama daughters being listed as "staff" on the manifest for one of the trips.
Are you angling for a seat on one of their vacation plans? Your hackery might qualify you.

Zachass, your Fox News citation does not say what you are saying it does. Here's a quote from it:
"The size of Mrs. Obama's traveling party is sure to invite comparisons to her vacation last August in Spain with Sasha and friends. The five-day trip to Spain's Costa del Sol stoked a bit of a firestorm about the wisdom of taking a glamorous trip with such economic hurt at home and raised speculation about who was paying the bill.
"Attempting to head off similar criticism this time, the White House said Mrs. Obama is allowed to bring guests with her on the plane because she's on official U.S. business, as the president is allowed on his official trips. All other costs regarding her family are to be paid for privately."
In other words, whatever the Obama White House says it is, it is! You may, obviously do, buy that. But, you are doing so on my dime, and other taxpayers.
You've gotta do better shilling than that to merit a ticket on Michelle's magic carpet.

No where does the Congressional Research say that Michelle's vacations should be covered by the taxpayers. What it does say is that Presidential vacations travel expenses largely are (commercial airfare paid versus the tens of millions of dollars they actually cost). And, it is the White House (fox guarding the chickens, anyone?) that determines if a trip is official or political. A follow-up report would be needed to examine whether Michelle's vacations with friends are "official." Given how Obama has stretched so many other rulings beyond reason or law, one could expect similar here.
Reading the fuller report ( http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS21835.pdf ), not the blog excerpt you presented:
"the White House decides the nature of travel on a case-by-case basis, 8 3 U.S.C. § 105(e) authorizes the First Lady to assist the President in discharging his duties and responsibilities.
9 See Fielding, “Guidelines for Travel by the President and Vice President,” pp. 5-9.
10 Ibid., pp. 6-7.
Presidential Travel: Policy and Costs
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attempting to determine whether each trip, or part of a trip, is or is not official by considering the nature of the event involved, and the role of the individual involved.
11 It is unclear how the White House designates travel that is not directly related to a governmental or political function, because of traditional reluctance to address this matter. It appears that, in most cases, such travel is treated as official, under the assumption that the President and Vice President are always on duty. Vacation trips, for example, fall under the official travel category."

Zachass, as usual, you miss the point and then try to obscure it. A trip to Africa by Mrs. Clinton or Mrs. Bush, when their husbands were president, is not the vacation trips elsewhere that Michelle has taken on the taxpayers expense. The cost of the US planes, security, communications, lodging for them, etc. runs into the tens of millions of dollars.
Take a trip to the point Zachass, or in your case a long walk on a short pier.
I have better and other things to do than waste any more time on you. BTW, are you wearing your Obama mask tonight, or isn't that necessary to recognize you?

Zachass, I suggest, again, you look at the Congressional Research report http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS21835.pdf which counts tens of millions of dollars, indeed totals of several hundred millions.
Then, get off my plane, preferably while airborne.

Zachass, no you provided a link to an excerpt from the report at a blog. -- No, having a private air force fleet in order to take a vacation, at the cost of tens of millions of dollars, is not trivial, and repeatedly doing so for vacations with friends as opposed to really official trips is outrageous.
Your bird(sh*t) won't fly any more than your dog will hunt.

Zachass, I think that -- particularly in a time of deep recession when so many millions of Americans are suffering and so many millions more scrimping -- Michelle's lavish vacations, well in excess of any prior First lady, even Jackie, are in exceedingly poor taste and exhibit the regal disdain and exploitation for which she will long be known. -- Add to that her thousand dollar blouses and shoes and designer-loaned or purchased outfits. -- Add to that the multifold increase in catering costs that have been added by the Obamas to White House catering costs, and that with a crony profiting no less. ( http://washingtonexaminer.com/cronyism-seen-in-relationship-behind-white-house-dinners/article/2512295#.UJJbboWhA-O )
Zachass, maybe the Obamas are your ideal of governance, but you may have also appreciated French royalty before the revolution.