Too Poor to Pay (for meals of White House guests, because of all the entertaining)

American Spectator ^ | August 3, 2009 | The Prowler

[Ticonderoga34]

The bigger issue is that Obama can’t stick to a budget. He just spends until the money runs out. Its what him and Bill Ayers did at the Annenburg Foundation and its what he is doing with the Federal budget.

[ladyjane]

Barbarians at the gates, vulgarians in the White House.

[TangoLimaSierra]

I think he knows he may not be there long so he is getting all he can out of it.

[monocle]

"We've done a lot more entertaining than previous administrations have," says the White House aide. "The whispering here is that we're over budget and where we can, we're trying to save money."

Nights on the town in NYC and Paris cost a lot of money. Let the capitalists pay foe their own freaking meals, Michelle and I are now on easy street and are enjoying spending all that taxpayer money on our slightest whim.

[Will88]

"The whispering here is that we're over budget and where we can, we're trying to save money."

Budgeting just isn't one of the Obama administrations strong points, if they have any strong points.

[Malone LaVeigh]

I guess the WH will have to simplify its menu in order to make ends meet.

[Skid Marx]

"We've done a lot more entertaining than previous administrations have," says the White House aide. "The whispering here is that we're over budget and where we can, we're trying to save money."

That is typical, utter bullshit. This is merely this "president"'s method of putting his guests in their place. Little gestures of rudeness like this add up to big enmity, which isn't forgiven easily, if at all. This clown had better watch his step, or his term in office may be shorter and much more difficult than he had imagined.

[rfreedom4u]

Maybe we can all just “eat cake!”

[MEGoody]

I don't have a problem with someone having to pay for their own meal if that individual specifically asks for a meeting with the President over a meal. I do have a problem with it if the President is doing the inviting.

If Obama needs to curtail costs, let the members of Congress and other Dem political cronies pay for THEIR meals.

[Candor7]

Obama hasn't got even a whisper of "nobless oblige" anywhere in his narrow minded frame.

Obama spends his entertainment budget on Dems and the Bwack Caucus. If you are from the greedy business social class, or are in auto industry management, and NOW if your are in the Health Care industry, you must pay for your own meal at the white house.( Remember the lobster Snacks on the Campaign Trail in New York City?)

This is typical self righteous Utopian idjit manners.If there is no hospitality, its because Obama wants to disempower his "guests."

Hell, I wouldn't eat in the White House without a professional food taster by my side.Meals from fascists? You couldn't pay me enough to eat Obama food. (It would just be puked up anyway.)

And I certainly would never have eaten anything cooked on a grill by Bill Clinton either, ( no telling where his hands had just been.)

[cranked]

The House and Senate will invariably approve a bailout for/to the Barry abused White House budget.

[DustyMoment]

"We've done a lot more entertaining than previous administrations have," says the White House aide. "The whispering here is that we're over budget and where we can, we're trying to save money."

Gee, what a surprise.

/sarc

[DustyMoment]

Then I’d like to know who is NOT having to pay for their meals.

Zero's mother-in-law. She lives at the WH off of OUR dime!!!

[EDINVA]

I had to keep going back to checking the source and still found it hard to believe this was a genuine article, not onion or scrappleface.

It’s exactly what they’re doing to the economy. Borrowing up front zillions of dollars and not having anything (or much) left at the end.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Let me guess;

whe ObaMao threw the grand whiskey bash at the White House, Stevie Wonderless and Hollyweird Celebrities, they paid for their own booze?

And did Barry pay for the Pizza flown in from St Louis on Air Force One, out of his own pocket? Or how about all of the wonderful date nights he and his over fashioned wife have spent millions on?

[Drango]

Zero's mother-in-law. She lives at the WH off of OUR dime!!!

I don't think so. I may be wrong, but I believe the 0bama's pay for their own food. Labor as in cooks, waiters is likely free.

[Madame Dufarge]

Then I’d like to know who is NOT having to pay for their meals.

The members of the state-owned media:

However, when journalists were feted with other friends of the White House on the South Lawn last month, with dunk tanks, food and drink, they were not asked to pay for their entertainment

[Polarik]

Line 5, on Form 2106.

[lonestar]

What did it cost taxpayers for Michelle and the girls to go for Fish and Chips in London?

[concerned about politics]

We never see the Obomas filmed inside the White House. They're always filmed outside. What kind of a rat hole have they turned that place into?
God speed, 2012.

(Never give a community organizer a presidents job.)