While America's recession looms overhead, Obama goes on a Billion dollar trip.

Barack Hussein Obama is going to visit India next week for a three-day visit that will cover Mumbai and Delhi and according to an English language web site in India, the Press Trust of India, Obama is apparently taking no chances to protect himself. NDTV in India reports the following about Obama’s trip. He is bringing along an aircraft carrier task force consisting of 34 warships, 40 cars and hundreds of staff workers.

• Around 800 rooms have been booked for the President and his entourage in Taj Hotel and Hyatt.
• He will also be protected by a fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, which will patrol the sea lanes off the Mumbai coast during his two-day stay there beginning Saturday. The measure has been taken as Mumbai attack in 2008 took place from the sea.
• Two jets, armed with advanced communication and security systems, and a fleet of over 40 cars will be part of Obama's convoy.
• Sources said 13 heavy-lift aircraft with high-tech equipment, three helicopters and 500 US security personnel have arrived in India ahead of Obama's visit.
• The US security has also brought interception and obstruction device, sniffer dogs, rescue gadgets.

Apart from Obama's Air Force One, a few private luxury jets carrying top American corporate leaders, who are part of Obama's entourage, are also expected to arrive in India in the next 2-3 days.

All high-rise buildings in the vicinity of Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel and Delhi's Maurya Sheraton hotel, where the US President will stay, are being sanitised and security personnel will be positioned on rooftops to prevent any air-borne attack.

The Ridge area - opposite Delhi's Maurya Sheraton hotel - has been illuminated by floodlights as part of the heightened security drill.

The trip has been estimated to be costing the U.S. government over 200 million dollars per day. Apparently, Mr. Obama is not concerned about our four trillion dollar national debt or the looming recession. According to this source the White House, itself, will not be moved to India but almost everyone who works there will be included on this trip.