Posted on 03/12/2013 10:31:19 AM PDT by Libloather
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Principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest had been briefed carefully in advance for this question. All White House briefers are briefed carefully in advance for briefings at a cost of what it probably takes to conduct White House tours.
Earnest said that it was a shame that the people who come to the White House on a yearly basis to tour would get stiffed, but that the people that the president is most concerned about, though, are the 750,000 Americans who stand to lose their job as a result of the sequester.
But this is like your mother telling you that you had to eat your lima beans because children were starving in China. If I ate my lima beans, would children in China (who today are very healthy and hacking into our computers) not starve? And will discontinuing White House tours somehow save 750,000 jobs?
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I bet the birthday bash for his wife cost more than the white house tours.
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