Our royal family ... Thanks Judi C!

> Subject: OUR ROYAL FAMILY
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> The redistribution of $1.4 billion each year
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> What can you buy for $1.4 billion a year? You can buy the most luxurious and
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> costly royal presidency in history.
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> Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing,
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> flying and entertaining President Obamba and his family last year, according
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> the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks.
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> In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal
> family.
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> Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that
> Obama
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> isn’t the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings
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> his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues,
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> risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in.
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> Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4 billion spent on the Obama family
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> year is the “total cost of the presidency,” factoring the cost of the
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> staff in history at the highest wages ever,” a 50 percent increase in the
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> numbers of appointed czars and an Air Force One “running with the frequency
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> scheduled air line.”
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> Perspective: $1.4 billion is equal to spending seven times Mitt Romney’s
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> net-worth every year. If Romney had to pay for Barack and Michelle’s
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> this year, he would have been bankrupted by the third week in February.
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> Now, can we please get back to talking about the evil, freeloading rich
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> who didn’t build anything and who need to "pay a little bit more."
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