Ohio taxpayers contribute $1M-plus for golf event

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Columbus has pledged $150,000 more for the Presidents Cup, meaning taxpayers in central Ohio are contributing about $1 million to the golf event this week at Muirfield Village in Dublin.

The Columbus Dispatch reports the total public contribution rises above $1.2 million if an expected $100,000 county allotment and more in-kind contributions for police and security are included.

Columbus had agreed to spend $200,000 on the event and promised $150,000 more on Monday night. Suburban Dublin has pledged $350,000, mostly for security, traffic control and parking management. Franklin County committed to $150,000, and Delaware County is chipping in $35,000.

Officials in Columbus say the team competition between U.S. and international golfers provides good attention for the area and an estimated net income-tax revenue boost of more than $1 million.

Obama’s Pentagon Buys Helicopters From Same Russian Company Supplying Arms to Syrian Government

In what some on Capitol Hill are calling an outrage, the Pentagon announced plans to purchase 21 Mi-17 Russian helicopters from Rosoboronexport.  

With a taxpayer price tag of $375 million, the purchase of Russian made helicopters will be completed over the next 4 years. 

Worse yet is that they announced a contingency plan to purchase additional helicopters worth $550 million.

Although US taxpayers are buying these helicopters, they are not for us.

They are for Afghanistan to help build up their fleet of the Russian made helicopters.

Cartagena

I haven't seen anything brought up about it, but I have to wonder, WHO was paying for all this FUN in Cartagena?  Expense accounts can be a great thing. My guess is that the American Taxpayers were footing some of the bill. Obama seems to be aware of everything else that is going on around him, why not this incident. It had to have been going on for quite some time. Look at all the traveling Obama was doing around the world, almost daily. How many "advance" teams were there? "Dig a little deeper in the well."

American taxpayer dollars at work

When did HE go to the pump last?

Obama Jokes About High Gas Prices

So sad.

President Obama plays comedian and cracks jokes about gas prices. He told an audience today that there’s “a few places” we’re not drilling… the National Mall… at your house.”

Of course, like most everything Obama says, a quick Google search paints a totally different picture of the truth.

Obama has chosen almost always to limit production. He canceled leases on federal lands in Utah, suspended them in Montana, delayed them in Colorado and Utah, and canceled lease sales off the Virginia coast.

His administration also has been slow-walking permits in the Gulf of Mexico, approving far fewer while stretching out review times, according to the Greater New Orleans Gulf Permit Index. The Energy Dept. says Gulf oil output will be down 17% by the end of 2013, compared with the start of 2011. Swift Energy President Bruce Vincent is right to say Obama has “done nothing but restrict access and delay permitting.”

“The U.S. consumes more than a fifth of the world’s oil. But we only have 2% of the world’s oil reserves.”