From The Queen

For only the second time in my adult life, I am not ashamed of my
country. I want to thank the hard working American people for paying $242
thousand dollars plus additional expenses for my vacation in Spain.
My daughter Sasha, several long-time family friends, my personal staff
and various guests had a wonderful time. Honestly, you just haven't lived
until you have stayed in a $2,500.00 per night suite at a 5-Star luxury
hotel. We only booked 70 rooms for our friends, staff and family. Thank you
also for the use of Air Force 2 and the 70 Secret Service personnel who
tagged along to be sure we were safe and cared for at all times.

Air Force 2 only used 47,500 gallons of jet fuel for this trip and carbon
emissions were a mere 1,031 tons of CO2. It costs only $11,500 per hour to
operate Air Force 2 and each additional plane for the other members of our
party group. These are only rough estimates, but they are close (who's
counting?). That's quite a carbon footprint as my good friend Al Gore would
say, so we must ask the American citizens to drive smaller, more fuel
efficient cars and drive less too, so we can lessen our combined carbon
footprint.

I know times are hard and millions of you are struggling to put food on
the table and trying to make ends meet. I do appreciate your sacrifice and
do hope you find work soon. I was really exhausted after Barack took our
family on a luxury vacation in Maine a few weeks ago. I just had to get
away for a few days. Will write more from Martha's Vineyard where we will
spend our sixth vacation this year with more of our family and friends.

Cordially,
Queen, M. Obama