Correction: How Much Is Obama’s Trip to India Costing?
Despite our earlier post, we don’t know. Nor does anyone else it seems. Here is David Friedman on the subject:
I note the recent widely circulated claim that Barack Obama’s visit to India is costing $200 million a day. It’s a good story, and obviously fits well with the view of Obama as fiscally profligate. But its sole basis seems to be a single news story from India, sourced to an anonymous “top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit.” Which did not prevent it from being widely published as fact in online (and, I presume, print) sources in the U.S.
Retraction? It’s the manly thing to do.
However many millions the trip is costing it is too many millions.
It’s the let-them-eat-cake junket.
I find myself agreeing with Dr. Krauthammer:
http://tinyurl.com/282zp8e
“Why do you think we built that 747 flying palace emblazoned with the presidential insignia – if not to land to awestruck crowds wherever it goes?”