Over at the Maddow Blog at MSNBC, Steve Benen posted an article called "The Odd Preoccupation with White House Tours". His topic sentence is "Someone's going to have to explain this one to me."
So the ultra-left finds the nation's concern that president Obama cancelled White House tours and blame the nonsensical move on the sequester to be "odd". What that really means is that they are truly living in a bubble. Think about it.
1.) We hear that Obama is selling meetings with himself in exchange for contributions of half a million dollars or more to his campaign committee. At the same time, he locks the common folks out of the White House. But the left does not understand why Americans focus on this.
2.) Obama spends more than five times the annual cost of White House tours just to go to play golf for the weekend in Florida. But the left does not understand why Americans focus on this.
3.) The White House employs three caligraphers whose salaries would cover the cost of White House Tours for half a year. I guess that somehow the fonts on the White House printers must be limited. America, after all, needs to have things hand lettered rather than saving the hundreds of thousands of dollars that using the printers would accomplish. But the left does not understand why Americans focus on this.
4.) Recent articles have highlighted federal expenditures including, among others, $141,000 sent to China to fund a study on manure, $325,000 for building a robotic squirrel; $500,000 to support development of specialty shampoos for cats and dogs; funding the construction of building a miniature street out of Legos, spending almost $400 million last year for employee conferences of federal workers (like those GSA jaunts to Las Vegas); funding pottery classes in Morocco which cost more than a full year's worth of White House Tours; and my personal favorite, funding Harry Reid's favorite Cowboy Poetry Festival in Nevada. One has to wonder why the feds don't just give poor folks currency to burn in their homes to reduce heating costs. but the left does not understand why Americans focus on this.
Okay, so let me explain. THERE WAS NO NEED TO FREEZE ALL THE SCHOOL KIDS OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. There were plenty of other things that could easily be cut. Indeed, across the entire government, there is so much waste that we could save hundreds of billions of dollars if we just made some rational changes. But the left is not in favor of any change that will reduce government spending even if all that spending is pure waste. In their view, government can do no wrong.
If president Obama and the Obamacrats were to actually do their jobs and try to pass a budget and appropriations bills, an attempt could be made to bring some order to the chaos of federal spending. Do we really need 105 overlapping and duplicative job training programs? Of course not! Could more Americans get job training at a lesser total cost if those 105 programs were consolidated into two or three and half of the savings on overhead used to fund more training? Certainly! But the net effect of using rational thought on government spending would be to reduce the size of government. That is something that neither Obama nor his party will ever accept. And that is why they do not understand the "odd" preoccupation with the White House tours. In their world, anything that might make spending more rational is "bizarre"; all they know is that more spending is always better.
So to Steve Benen, all I can say is that I hope this helps.
So the ultra-left finds the nation's concern that president Obama cancelled White House tours and blame the nonsensical move on the sequester to be "odd". What that really means is that they are truly living in a bubble. Think about it.
1.) We hear that Obama is selling meetings with himself in exchange for contributions of half a million dollars or more to his campaign committee. At the same time, he locks the common folks out of the White House. But the left does not understand why Americans focus on this.
2.) Obama spends more than five times the annual cost of White House tours just to go to play golf for the weekend in Florida. But the left does not understand why Americans focus on this.
3.) The White House employs three caligraphers whose salaries would cover the cost of White House Tours for half a year. I guess that somehow the fonts on the White House printers must be limited. America, after all, needs to have things hand lettered rather than saving the hundreds of thousands of dollars that using the printers would accomplish. But the left does not understand why Americans focus on this.
4.) Recent articles have highlighted federal expenditures including, among others, $141,000 sent to China to fund a study on manure, $325,000 for building a robotic squirrel; $500,000 to support development of specialty shampoos for cats and dogs; funding the construction of building a miniature street out of Legos, spending almost $400 million last year for employee conferences of federal workers (like those GSA jaunts to Las Vegas); funding pottery classes in Morocco which cost more than a full year's worth of White House Tours; and my personal favorite, funding Harry Reid's favorite Cowboy Poetry Festival in Nevada. One has to wonder why the feds don't just give poor folks currency to burn in their homes to reduce heating costs. but the left does not understand why Americans focus on this.
Okay, so let me explain. THERE WAS NO NEED TO FREEZE ALL THE SCHOOL KIDS OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. There were plenty of other things that could easily be cut. Indeed, across the entire government, there is so much waste that we could save hundreds of billions of dollars if we just made some rational changes. But the left is not in favor of any change that will reduce government spending even if all that spending is pure waste. In their view, government can do no wrong.
If president Obama and the Obamacrats were to actually do their jobs and try to pass a budget and appropriations bills, an attempt could be made to bring some order to the chaos of federal spending. Do we really need 105 overlapping and duplicative job training programs? Of course not! Could more Americans get job training at a lesser total cost if those 105 programs were consolidated into two or three and half of the savings on overhead used to fund more training? Certainly! But the net effect of using rational thought on government spending would be to reduce the size of government. That is something that neither Obama nor his party will ever accept. And that is why they do not understand the "odd" preoccupation with the White House tours. In their world, anything that might make spending more rational is "bizarre"; all they know is that more spending is always better.
So to Steve Benen, all I can say is that I hope this helps.
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