THIS Controversial $1 Million Obama Family Purchase Will Have You Furious According to recent reports, when Barack Obama first took office in 2009, he decided to take Michelle on a date night to New York City to see a Broadway show. The trip required three jets full of security staff, who accompanies the Obamas on their trip and back. All so that the couple could have a fancy dinner in the Big Apple, and see the play Come and Gone, a story about black workers in the early 1900s. Sounds harmless enoughuntil you learn that the trip cost a whooping $1 million in taxpayer dollars. And 2009 was a time of serious recession in the United States. If only we knew at the time that this was only the beginning of the Obamas lavish spending habits 