Posted on 03/08/2013 7:46:27 AM PST by EXCH54FE
Sometimes, the smallest things can be the most revealing.
On Tuesday, the nation — or at least the part that’s still paying attention — learned that President Barack Obama’s administration, in what can only be seen as an incredibly petty and virulently vindictive response to spending “cuts” imposed by sequestration (properly described in most cases as “reductions in projected spending increases”), decided to cancel all tours of the White House beginning March 9.
As a result, to name just one of what are surely many examples, sixth graders at an Iowa elementary school which had received approval to take a March 16 tour learned, barring what would seem to be a quixotic effort to change White House minds via Facebook, that it’s not going to happen. They’re reportedly going to make their trip to Washington anyway, because, according to the school’s principal, it’s an important opportunity for them to “find out more about how the government works.”
The tours are run by volunteers. According to an estimate worked up by ABC News on Wednesday, the White House will save $18,000 per week by not utilizing 30 Secret Service agents during the tours. Even that savings figure is suspect, as original reports about the tours’ cancellation claimed that “Uniformed Division Officers assigned to the public tours will be reassigned to other security posts,” which “will reduce overtime costs as well as potential furloughs that could have been required.”
Even if the estimated $936,000 in annual savings ($18,000 times 52 weeks) really occurs, the cancelled tours of what Michelle Obama still calls the People’s House, but which should now be renamed Barack’s Barracks, could have been completely avoided if her husband, knowing that sequestration loomed, hadn’t spent over $1 million on a golf weekend with Tiger Woods in mid-February.
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Wouldn’t want to visit as long as Odumbo is living there anyway. I’m sure the place stinks.
Democrats are Democrats first. They just happen to live in America.
No surprise. Being petty punks is what Chicago thugs are!
Only a seriously tone deaf President would whine to a country reeling from economic devastation about how his housekeeping staff can’t work overtime.
Yeah buddy. I feel your pain. My own butler had to sew his own button on his shirt last week.
Obama is obviously counting on the media to use this to pummel the Republicans. Since I don't watch the MSM I don't know if that is happening or whether they are just ignoring the story since it isn't helping Obama.
That is exactly the case. It's as though you were expecting a $1.00 an hour pay raise, and got a .98 cents an hour pay raise instead.
If the American people truly grokked that fundamental basic of the so-called sequester, they'd see Obama for the petty, vindictive Marxist he is.
Petty thugs in the white house.
That way you'll get used to the fact that it isn't your house anymore..
Petty thugs in the white HUT
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