The Copenhagen Treaty Players

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Mr President!

PriceLess

8 beers - $32
2 plane tickets - $1000
1 Day of a Harvard Professor's time - $500
1 Day of the Vice Presidents time - $850
1 Day of the President's time - $1,000

Watching 3 crooks apologize to an honest cop" - PRICELESS!

Obamanation _ It is all American

Date Night cost $1,000,000.00

Three days before "dinner" a C-17 flew Marines and the helicopter
maintenance equipment to JFK Airport. The day before "dinner" I flew
the USSS and the motorcade to JFK Airport. Our crew of 5 spent two days

and nights at the Hilton in Times Square. My hotel bill: $621.66 plus
$64 a day in per diem. The USSS guys were at a different Hilton in NYC,

so figure that cost another $14,000 (or so) plus per diem. The Marines
had to have cost as much and were there four days, so figure another
$55,000 plus per diem (for 44 Marines).

We were supposed to fly the motorcade back and go home, but the Air
Force was so short C-17s that we were re-tasked to take the motorcade
back, return to JFK and take the helicopter back to Quantico.

When we got back to JFK, while the pilot was turning the plane around to

park, he noticed a roto blade sticking out of the hangar where the
helicopter was parked and informed me that either it wasn't ready to
transport or it was flying home. After shutting down I walked over to
the hangar and to my surprise I find FIVE helicopters, not ONE.

We're obviously not transporting five big helicopters. I went and
talked to the Marines guarding the "fleet" and found that they were
flying all five helicopters home, and we were only transporting the
Marines and the maintenance equipment.. After talking to the Marine in
charge, I was told that the White House requested FIVE helicopters. The

Marines told me that they spent all morning trying to figure out how
much it cost them to come and said they figured it cost them $140,000 to

stay there (I don't know where they came up with that) and the trip's
total had to be about $1,000,000.

We heard that the President didn't use Air Force One (the 747), so I
asked if he came in on one of the 757s. I was told that he came in on
THREE Air Force Lear jets.

So, date night consisted of:
2 C-17s flying three missions;
3 Lear jets;
5 Helicopters;
Presidential Motorcade;
44 Marines;
More than 20 USSS personnel on our plane; and
Who knows what it cost the NYPD and NY Port Authority (at the
airport) in overtime.

If you remember the message I sent about the Trinidad mission for the
Summit of the America's, I found out that they spent their entire budget

for his movement on that one trip.

Stan

I wondered how the general public was feeling about our President.

I am upset with the course our country has taken. Are You? We now have the executive branch making and passing laws. Leaving out the Legislative branch completely.

The USA owns car companies. Passed the bankruptcy phase and gave stock to the employee unions. It owns banks! Is printing 2, 3, 10 trillion Dollars? I cannot keep track and I don't think anyone really knows.



He is working on the Judicial branch as well. With the attitude of ruling with your understanding and life experiences.



Is our Legislative branch going to get the courage to stand on their principles? Stand up for our constitution.



Now, USA Medical care. OH, so we have to spend more on health care to reduce the debt. This guy is nuts. Please let me know what you think!

Obama Cars

UAW members approve General Motors concessions

By KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON and TOM KRISHER (AP Auto Writers)

From Associated Press

May 29, 2009 1:35 PM EDT

DETROIT - The United Auto Workers union has ratified a package of concessions designed to reduce General Motors Corp.'s labor costs.

UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said at a news conference Friday that 74 percent of GM's 54,000 U.S. production and skilled-trade workers voted in favor of the deal.

The vote comes before an expected Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing by GM on Monday. Bankruptcy experts say having the labor agreement in place will help move the process through court more quickly.

The UAW says the cuts will save GM $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion a year.

"We very much appreciate the support of our employees and retirees," Diana Tremblay, GM vice president for labor relations, said in a statement. "Their shared sacrifices will enable GM to become a stronger, more viable company that will continue to deliver world-class cars and trucks."

UAW leaders agreed to the revised contract last week that freezes wages, ends bonuses, eliminates noncompetitive work rules and ends the possibility of a strike until the next contract expires in 2015.

It also gives a union-run retiree health care trust 17.5 percent ownership of a post-bankruptcy protection GM, with a warrant to buy another 2.5 percent. The trust will take on the company's retiree health care costs starting next year. The stock will come in exchange for part of the company's $20 billion obligation to the trust.

GM has received $19.4 billion in loans from the U.S. government, which would get 72.5 percent ownership of the new company, perhaps sharing with the Canadian government. The remaining 10 percent would go to GM bondholders to wipe out $27 billion in unsecured debt.

Bondholders have until 5 p.m. EDT Saturday to accept or reject the stock-for-debt offer, under which they would get a warrant for an additional 15 percent of the new GM's stock.

Existing GM shareholders would be left with little or nothing, and GM shares fell 32 cents, or 29 percent, to 80 cents in afternoon trading. They fell as low as 75 cents earlier Friday, their lowest level since the Great Depression.

Plans are for GM to emerge from bankruptcy with lower labor costs, far less debt and with fewer factories, brands, models and dealerships.

Even workers at factories in Spring Hill, Tenn.; Pontiac, Mich.; and Orion Township, Mich., that are under discussion for possible closure approved the deal.

"I believe that our membership understands. They get it," said Ray Wood, president of a UAW local at a Toledo, Ohio, transmission factory that voted 78 percent in favor of the deal.

On Monday, GM is to identify 14 assembly, parts stamping and engine and transmission factories that it plans to close as part of its restructuring plan, cutting 21,000 jobs.

GM announced earlier Friday that one of those 14 plants would be retooled to make subcompact cars starting in 2011.

Gettelfinger said four of GM's plants slated to close will remain on "standby" with the hopes that vehicle sales will rise, creating greater demand.