I keep waiting for the entire Onion staff to just throw their hands up and go get real jobs…
The White House announced Tuesday that it was canceling all public tours of the president’s home because of the sequester spending cuts.
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As President Obama was returning from visiting wounded veterans at Walter Reed Medical Center, a reporter shouted a question about the decision to cancel the tours as Mr. Obama was walking from Marine One to the Oval Office.He simply smiled and waved.
According to Mapquest, Walter Reed is less than nine miles by road from the White House. I recognize it’s probably not practical for Obama to hop in the Presidential Chevy with a scheduling secretary and the guy with the SAC codes and just drive over there – though exactly why that’s so is not something I fully understand. I suppose I’d rather he take to the air than tie up traffic with an enormous motorcade if I were a DC commuter. But if good old Wikipedia is accurate in this case, that five-miles-as-the-crow-flies journey was made by not one but a veritable fleet of monstrously expensive VH-3 Sea Kings, because our beloved public servants really are that afraid of assassination.
And at the end of that – I have no doubt but can’t really back it up – multi-million dollar jaunt, the president couldn’t be bothered to say a few words about how he canceled White House tours – to save money, because ohmygodsequester.
And yet I’m supposed to believe that any of these people take budget-cutting seriously?
I wonder how many tours they could fund with the $273,000 in salaries for the three official White House calligraphers?
Let’s not get crazy, Bear. I’m sure the calligraphers are doing work essential to national security.
Calligraphers are important. Someone has to forge the signatures on the bills that are signed since it is difficult to do so on a golf course. For fancy lettering though I am rather partial to the old fashioned way, just using the right font on the computer.
Another sad thing is that the guys at the hospital were probably not all that glad to see the goon in chief either. What a colossal waste.
When I was in the District of Criminals (04? I think) Shrub was the guy burning all of that kerosene in those heckylopters. I was told by a resident that the minimum number of vehicles or heckylopters is three. On top of which is the “remote site security detail” which arrives two hours beforehand and “secures” every donut in sight. No wait that’s the Police … At any rate when POTUS moves a small army moves with and before.
BUT For Crying out loud what are they thinking to be spending so much money on docents and tour guides. It’s about time they nipped that excess spending habit before it gets out of hand …. oh … wait …