Obama Slams Evil Jet Owners — The Same Jet Owners He Gave Stimulus Cash To
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 4:16 PM
You’ve gotta love it.
A record 600 private jets descended on Obama’s Inauguration.
Barack Obma called people making over $250,000 a year “jet owners” today in his press conference.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
In his news conference today, the president said: “I think it’s only fair to ask an oil company or a corporate jet owner that’s doing so well to give up that tax break….I don’t think that’s real radical.”
Asking private-jet owners to give up tax breaks may not be that radical. And it probably would be supported by the vast majority of the nonjet-owning voters.
The problem is that most of the people that would be subject to the higher taxes the president wants aren’t likely to be private-jet owners. Someone earning $250,000 a year–among those scheduled for a tax increase in 2012–is unlikely to afford a jet–or even a few charter trips on a jet.
For those, like the president, who may not be well-versed in Jetonomics, here are some of the basics. The numbers come courtesy of Jay Duckson at Central Business jets:
COST OF BUYING A JET
New Citation CJ (entry level jet)–$5 million. Annual operating costs (fuel, hangar space, pilots) about $500,000.
Cheapest Used Jet–$100,000 to $500,000. Annual operating costs (hangar, pilots, mechanics, fuel) about $1 million a year.
By the way… Via Drudge, Obama’s failed stimulus package rewarded private jet owners.
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kansas commented:
It’s brilliant really, he comes out, makes no sense at all, claims he amused by the peons, and heads back to the palace. I’m for re-electing this jackass.
Male Silverback commented:
What about flying on a corporate jet makes you a bad person??? Ohhhhhh, I get it… Most people who commute that way are rich white people. Now I see where he is going with his logic.
Robt commented:
The devastator of strawmen has conquered again. Too bad his strawmen inventions have nothing to do with reality. I vote for the strawman. The republican nominee needs to bring a torch to the presidential debate to take on this strawman fabricator extraordinaire.
#1AMERICAN commented:
STFU you marxist kenyan mooslime POS…get out of our country
Frank Rizzo commented:
He’s obviously given up. He isn’t even trying to lie well. But he knows that none of his willing accomplices in the mainstream media will check anything; they’ll just parrot it and say he’s defending us in the “class warfare”.
gus commented:
Obama is going down in flames. I will never post about this c**ksucker without calling him a f**ktard ever again.
Obama is a piece of sh!t
ar05075 commented:
#1AMERICAN,
You took the words right out of my mouth.
Betsy Ross commented:
Barack Obama seems to have forgotten the 10th commandment: thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods. Encouraging others to be envious of what other people have is really sad.
BTW since when do we demonize success in the country?
Doug Edelman commented:
Obozo is making it tougher for “Air-Claire” McCaskill to sell her “damned plane”! Now anyone who buys it becomes an enemy of the state for buying a “corporate jet”!!
baseballguy commented:
This man is brilliant…and so are the 2 guys in the Guiness beer commercials.
BRILLIANT!
BRILLIANT!
gus commented:
What a person spends their own money on, is none of his fukcing business. His wife flies where the fukc she wants. What the fukc is wrong with slimy bag of sh!t.
donh commented:
How about closing all the tax breaks and special exemptions given to Hollywood celebrities?
wanumba commented:
Still targeting that Middle Class small entrepreneur in favor of the big corporate fat cat Democrats which donate to Democrats and are unionized.
big L commented:
what is wrong with ths picture is that the GOP is afraid to take him on. The GOP gets more out of being the PLP-Permanent Loser Party. Crickets .Any way Obama wins re-election w/o opposition.
Making the rouned ontheemail is a Rolling Stone article about Michele Bachmann being a fundametaliist and the making of the country into a Christian dictatorship.and thatwouldbe worse than Obama!!! I have never heard her say any thing about Chrstianity other than as to her family.
OxyCon commented:
Private jet owners are just the latest group of evil people Obama attacks and demagogues, just like all of those fat cat bankers and evil toe removing doctors.
Demagoguery and division are two of Obama’s favorite methods.
I’m surprised Obama hasn’t organized the SEIU to mob an airport somewhere.
wanumba commented:
#15 June 29, 2011 at 5:53 pm
OxyCon commented:
I’m surprised Obama hasn’t organized the SEIU to mob an airport somewhere.
……….
Because he’s doing what is called in techinical communists terminology, “salami slicing.”
He’d piss off too many people of every political party and income en mass if he let SEIU run amok at any airport. No, target a group, personalize it and destroy it.
wanumba commented:
I still want to know where the proceeds from the oil reserves sales went. That’s a lotta cash. A LOT. More cash than most people can even dream of. If the White House is doing crass infomercials selling WH dinners and lottos then they are not governing, but grubbing for cash. There was zero actual need to dump oil reserves and in fact worse – a negative price benefit as stocks have to be replenished at higher prices, so where did the the money go?
Joanne commented:
The guy flies around in Air Force One to his own campaign fundraisers! Get out the straight-jacket – Obama has lost his mind.
theBuckWheat commented:
The One is clueless about economics and clueless about business. He lives in an ideological world and every feature of his mentality is ideological. He thinks that efficient use of manpower is only a “feature” of business and that if he is willing to give up one the features on his list, business should be willing to give up this feature.
Sorry: it doesn’t work like that.
tommy mc donnell commented:
does he ever make a speech without demonizing someone? i think he forgot most of those rich people are his supporters.
tommy mc donnell commented:
is it fair to ask politicans to spend less money to buy their re-election.
Valerie commented:
No wonder his meetings about the budget are limited to 1.5 hours. He doesn’t have the capacity to delve deeply into the subject.
Jerry M commented:
You have to give him credit for one thing. To be bold enough to blatantly lie, demagog and set up false choices thoughout his speeches, he understands that a large segment of the American electorate are just plain stupid, ignorant morons incapable of exercising anything even remotely resembling critical thinking skills.
OxyCon commented:
Someone should make a mock Obama campaign commercial of Obama asking for campaign contributions from fat cat bankers, unethical doctors and people that own private jets, using footage of Obama demonizing them.
burt commented:
I don’t see Obama debating anyone even with a small brain.
AzCon commented:
http://www.goiam.org/publications/pdfs/06_29_2011_GAMA_IAM_LetterToObama.pdf
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/OBAMA012009.xml&headline=Dear%20Mr.%20President:%20Letters%20To%20Obama&channel=defense
http://www.nbaa.org/advocacy/letters/20090128-Obama.pdf
Stop demonizing use of corporate aircraft… General aviation contributes $150 billion to the U.S. economy annually and support 1.2 million jobs – DUFUS
Kirk Davis commented:
Who elected this moron? Socialists love to chide the wealthy then turn around and piss away the taxpayers money. Up his, with a wrist watch on.