Each round trip cost approximately $32,000. We are just fiefs in Obama's many fiefdoms.

We are just the little people. We wouldn't understand how important he is.

Panetta says he regrets cost of trips home By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press 04/16/2012 Panetta's commute costs: $860,000 so far WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday he regrets the cost to taxpayers for his weekend trips to his Carmel Valley home, but says it's important "just to get your mind straight and your perspective straight." Panetta said he'd try to find some savings, with each round trip costing approximately $32,000. "I regret ... that it does add costs that the taxpayer has to pick up," Panetta said during a Pentagon briefing Monday, speaking publicly for the first time about the flight costs. "A taxpayer would have to pick up those costs with any secretary of state or secretary of defense. But having said that, I am trying to look at what are ... the alternatives here that I can look at that might possibly be able to save funds and, at the same time, be able to fulfill my responsibilities, not only to my job, but to my family." The Associated Press earlier this month detailed the costs of the 27 roundtrip flights home Panetta has taken since he became Pentagon chief last July, as well as the amount he has reimbursed the government for the trips.