New book says taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year

New book says taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year. “In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family.” “… the ‘biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever,’ a 50 percent increase in the numbers of appointed czars and an Air Force One ‘running with the frequency of a scheduled air line.'” But when Mitt Romney spends his own money, he’s “greedy.”

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