The White House cancels tours, blaming The Sequestration!1!!!1 Big Sis claims flight delays, Airports say, not so much.
And now we have some leaked emails indicating that punishing the hoi polloi is just what this Chavez-lite administration wants
A leaked email from an Agriculture Department field officer adds fuel to claims President Obama’s political strategy is to make the billions in recent federal budget cuts as painful as possible to win the public opinion battle against Republicans.
The email, circulated around Capitol Hill, was sent Monday by Charles Brown, a director at the agency’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C. He appears to tell his regional team about a response to his recent question on the amount of latitude he has in making cuts.
According to the partially redacted email, the response came from the Agriculture Department’s budget office and in part states: “However you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.”
The response noted that the administration had already told Congress that the APHIS would “eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry” without additional funds.
This is who they are, this is what they do.
Fuck them
Well, considering Holder has just advised Senator Rand Paul that President Obama has the power to order drone strikes inside the US, we peasants best not get too upity.
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I heard this on Twitter, so take it for what it’s worth, but apparently those WH tours are conducted by volunteers. So the total “savings” is a big fat zero.
And yet the feds posted 400 job openings right after the sequester went into effect.
When the facts don’t fit the narrative, they must be deemphasized.
the whole sequester thing never really captured the public imagination
just piggy piggy federal worker whores mostly
and the propaganda sluts on the cable news
but not real people
So how much money are they saving by shutting down White House tours (given by volunteers)?
obviously the tours thing is a bs move, but I imagine there is added security for the tours.
but I’m waiting for Obama to take AF1 to some bullshit political speech.
He can’t go more than a week and a half stuck in the white house w/o some form of entertainment.
The way I take this is that they are showing, us through what they are cutting in the non-defense part, the only things that work and that should not be cut.
Spend the 44 billion, it’s the best spent money that the Federal Government spends. Cut out everything else that is non-defense. Budget balanced.
Gee, ya think they’re cutting back on expenses like this?
“The U.S. State Department spent $85,000 on a “Global Townterview” with Hillary Clinton at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on January 29. ”
“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E_rS38kClg
The WH tours are self-directed. There are people who stand around making sure you don’t step over the ropes.
How much you wanna bet that Teh Won still has private chefs and dog trainers for Bo and Michelle Antoinette on the payroll?
We really, really need to keep bugging Her Majesty to re-enact the Sack of Washington this August.