Are tax payers paying for food tasters for Obama & his family on business/vacations trips?

[enhanced_deficit]

Obama couldn’t eat at Hill meeting without food ‘taster’ [AUDIO]



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WASHINGTON — Following President Obama’s lunch meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins described the food served and said the president was not able to eat since his “taster” was not present.

“Universityhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/) of Maine recipe for healthy lobster salad — I pointed that out to the president in keeping with the first lady’s initiatives and Fox Family Potato Chips made in Aroostook County where I’m from and wild blueberry pie full of anti-oxidants, see this was a healthy lunch as well. We did have a little ice cream on the pie too, also made in Maine, Gifford’s Ice Cream. So in all seriousness this was well received,” Collins told reporters on Thursday after the meeting at the Capitol.
“Unfortunately, you know, the president can’t,” said Collins when asked if Obama ate at the lunch meeting.


“He looked longingly at it,” Collins continued. “He honestly did look longingly at it, but apparently he has to have essentially a taster, and I pointed out to him that we were all tasters for him, that if the food had been poisoned all of us would have keeled over so, but he did look longingly at it and he remarked that we have far better food than the Democrats do, and I said that was because I was hosting.”


http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/14/obama-couldnt-eat-at-hill-meeting-without-taster-audio/

[MRK]

Apparently yes. Until I saw this in the news I didn't even know there were still food testers like they had for kings in courts of medieval times.

I wonder what their life insurance premiums are like.

[enhanced_deficit]

Seems like they are spening lot of money on vacations at a time when there is not enough money to take care of US veterans:

How Much Will The Obama’s Daughters’ Latest Bahama Atlantis Vacation Cost American Taxpayers?
Monday, March 25, 2013 12:24

(Before It's News) (http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2013/03/how-much-will-the-obamas-daughters-latest-bahama-atlantis-vacation-cost-american-taxpayers-2606914.html) By Susan Duclos

While Barack Obama and his administration is forcing agency heads to to implement reductions to increased spending in the most damaging way possible (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.scribd.com/doc/128945274/Leaked-Aquaculture-loss-sequestration-email) and threatening to cancel White House tours (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/tours-and-events), the Easter Egg hunt at the White House (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://wheaton-md.patch.com/articles/135th-white-house-easter-egg-roll-could-be-scrambled-by-sequestration-7b43a38a), military benefits (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://militarybenefits.info/sequestration-cuts-and-the-impact-on-the-military-community/), etc..... his daughters are once again on another taxpayer funded vacation in the Bahama's at the "Atlantis" resort (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/03/25/Exclusive-Sasha-Malia-Obama-vacation-in-Bahamas-Atlantis).

Unfortunately, until an organization such as Judicial Watch (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.judicialwatch.org/obamas-vacations/), files Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuits, we won't know exactly how much this latest trip for the first daughters will end up costing taxpayers, many of which haven't been able to afford a vacation for themselves since Obama took office in January 2009.

Barack Obama makes a point, and is on video multiple times, talking about "shared sacrifice," yet his family vacations, his wife's and his daughters, have totaled millions if not billions of dollars, which taxpayers have funded over the last four years.

The first family's Hawaii vacations alone, from 2009-2012, have topped $20 million, according to The Hawaii Reporter (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.hawaiireporter.com/residents-alerted-to-obamas-hawaiian-holiday-plans/123). This excludes the other vacations taken by the whole family, or individual members such as Sasha's spring break vacation in 2012 (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/obamas-daughter-spends-springbreak-in-mexico-what-is-us-taxpayer-cost/question-2528197/) where 25 Secret Services agents accompanied her.

As of February 2012, there were 16 documented first family vacations (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://washingtonexaminer.com/michelles-ski-trip-marks-16-obama-vacations/article/294051), all funded by American taxpayers:

The Obama Vacation List -- (Up to February 2012)

--President’s Day 2012, Michelle and the first daughters in Aspen, Colorado to ski.
-- Christmas 2011, the first family in Hawaii for an extended vacation.
-- Summer 2011, in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., for the annual beach break.
-- June 2011, the first lady, her mother and daughters traveled to South Africa and Botswana.
-- President’s Day 2011, the first lady and first daughters travel to Vail to ski.
-- Christmas 2010, in Hawaii.
-- August 2010, the first family traveled to Panama City Beach, Fla., for some sun and fun at the beach.
-- August 2010, Obama spent the weekend alone in Chicago for his 49th birthday bash.
-- August 2010, the first lady and daughter Sasha traveled to Spain for a mother-daughter vacation.
-- August 2010, summer vacation again at Martha’s Vineyard.
-- July 2010, the first family went to Mount Desert Island, Maine.
-- May 2010, the first family had a four-day trip to Chicago.
-- March 2010, first lady and daughter spend Spring Break in New York City.
-- Christmas 2009, Hawaii again for the annual break.
-- August 2009, at Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon for a short vacation.
-- August 2009, their first summer vacation as first family at Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

March 2012- March 2012: Malia Obama’s Spring Break vacation to Mexico (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-u-s-secret-service-for-records-detailing-security-costs-for-obama-daughters-spring-break-trip-to-mexico/) with 25 U.S. Secret Service Agents and 12 of her friends.

Nothing has changed in 2013 for the Obama family.

http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2013/03/how-much-will-the-obamas-daughters-latest-bahama-atlantis-vacation-cost-american-taxpayers-2606914.html

[presence]

I actually took the mention of taster moreso as an aphormism that most of the president's meals are prepared under secure conditions.

[RickyJ]

Obama doesn't eat much, the guy is a skeleton. I guess the food tasters eat most of his food. :D

[awake]

Kings require food tasters, and that would make perfect sense as the American people have one.

[TheTexan]

If 100 people aren't trying to kill you each day, you're not doing your job of stealing & murdering correctly

[Luciconsort]

I don't like the way he pays for his tasters.... but he definitely needs tasters lol

[RickyJ]

Kings require food tasters, and that would make perfect sense as the American people have one.

If America has a king, it is not Obama.

[TheTexan]

If America has a king, it is not Obama.

Obama is the Public Relations Officer for the Banker Oligarchy

[enhanced_deficit]

Obama is the Public Relations Officer for the Banker Oligarchy

Most accurate and concise characterization of this guy I have seen.

[HOLLYWOOD]

War & Constitutional criminals salesmen Bushies are no longer in office... did the world stop spinning?

Figureheads, for the serfs & mundanes to believe upon, as Disneyland pick-pockets your earnings/savingd.

[donnay]

Hitler's food taster Margot Woelk reveals Fuhrer's extreme vegetarian diet
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2013/02/hitlers-food-taster-margot-woelk-reveals-fuhrers-extreme-vegetarian-diet.html



Flashback:

UK Spies Plotted to Slip Estrogen Into Hitler’s Food

Monday, 15 Aug 2011




During WWII, British forces hoped to tame Adolf Hitler’s aggression by slipping estrogen, the female hormone, into the Fuehrer’s food, reports Newser.

Professor Brian Ford of Cardiff University claims that British spies plotted to infuse Hitler’s meals with a tasteless form of estrogen, according to his book 'Secret Weapons: Technology, Science and the Race to Win World War II.'

This tasteless hormone would be the only feasible way to get an additive past Hitler’s meal taste-testers.

“Research has shown the importance of sex hormones; they were beginning to be used in sex therapy in London,” Ford writes. “The Allies hoped to smuggle estrogen into Hitler’s food so he would become more feminine and less aggressive.”

But the British weren’t the only forces with plots of food warfare. If the Nazis lost the war, they planned to leave poisoned sausages and Nescafe behind for Allied troops to devour, says Ford.

Source:
http://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/uk-spies-wwii-hitler/2011/08/15/id/407313

[osan]

That he is so paranoid of being poisoned says volumes about the "man".

At this point, were someone to actually poison him I would throw a party.

Yeah, I know... reported.

[nobody's_hero]

I'm not sure if poisoning is the international bankers' style. They're more the 'grassy knoll' type.

[enhanced_deficit]

Hitler's food taster Margot Woelk reveals Fuhrer's extreme vegetarian diet
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2013/02/hitlers-food-taster-margot-woelk-reveals-fuhrers-extreme-vegetarian-diet.html



Flashback:

UK Spies Plotted to Slip Estrogen Into Hitler’s Food

Monday, 15 Aug 2011




During WWII, British forces hoped to tame Adolf Hitler’s aggression by slipping estrogen, the female hormone, into the Fuehrer’s food, reports Newser.

Professor Brian Ford of Cardiff University claims that British spies plotted to infuse Hitler’s meals with a tasteless form of estrogen, according to his book 'Secret Weapons: Technology, Science and the Race to Win World War II.'

This tasteless hormone would be the only feasible way to get an additive past Hitler’s meal taste-testers.

“Research has shown the importance of sex hormones; they were beginning to be used in sex therapy in London,” Ford writes. “The Allies hoped to smuggle estrogen into Hitler’s food so he would become more feminine and less aggressive.”

But the British weren’t the only forces with plots of food warfare. If the Nazis lost the war, they planned to leave poisoned sausages and Nescafe behind for Allied troops to devour, says Ford.

Source:
http://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/uk-spies-wwii-hitler/2011/08/15/id/407313


Feminists in UK didn't object to "sexism" behind such a drive? Hillary has no testastrone but she voted for invasion of Iraq and seems no less bombastic than Obama.


In other news:
Former White House Chef Says There Is No Presidential Food Taster


Walter Scheib explains chefs' “food security clearance.” By Carol Ross Joynt (http://www.washingtonian.com/authorprofiles/carol-ross-joynt.php)

The issue of whether President Obama uses an official “food taster” tiptoed into a pool of controversy this week after a report that he had to refuse lobster salad at a lunch in the Capitol because his taster was not available. Whether that was in fact the case has not been resolved, but a former White House executive chef, Walter Scheib, has stepped forward to try to clear the air. The orginal report was on the Daily Caller (http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/14/obama-couldnt-eat-at-hill-meeting-without-taster-audio/), quoting Republican senator Susan Collins, who was at the lunch.
“There is no presidential food taster,” says Scheib, who ran the White House kitchen for 11 years for presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He claims the distinction of bringing “American contemporary cuisine” to White House menus after he was hired by First Lady Hillary Clinton in 1994. It caused quite a stir at the time, he recalls, after years of White House menus abiding to a code of mostly “continental” cuisine.



http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/1600-pennsylvania-avenue/former-white-house-chef-says-there-is-no-presidential-food-taster.php