[philetus]

So it does cost taxpayers more to keep WW2 vets away from the WW2 memorial.I thought they might have to pay a multitute of gov. employees to man a booth where WW2 vets had to buy their permit to look at the WW2 memorial.

[Riley]

Probably Same trick as with the sequester.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_Syndrome