From The Week.com: Lots of Republicans in Washington believe that the Obama administration is trying to use what spending discretion it has over the $85 billion in across-the-board sequestration cuts to fulfill its dire warnings about the pain and inconvenience Americans will feel if Washington doesn't do something. So when the White House announced that, due to the sequester, it was suspending all public tours of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the umbrage was pretty thick.
"The president is trying to make it tough on members of Congress," House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told CNBC. "It's just silly. I want to know who is being laid off at the White House. The Capitol is open for tours."...
Plenty of conservatives are doing just that. At The Weekly Standard, Daniel Halper singled out the White House calligraphy team. Chief Calligrapher Patricia A. Blair has an annual salary of $96,725; her two deputies earn $94,372 and $85,953 a year. "In all, the White House appears to employ 3 calligraphers for a yearly total of $277,050," says Halper. "Despite sequestration, there's been no announcement of the White House scaling back on calligraphers." (Watch a C-SPAN video on what the White House calligrapher does.) http://theweek.com/article/index/241052/why-the-white-house-spends-277000-on-calligraphers
Cancel White House tours, cancel the Easter Egg Hunt and cancel the Thunderbirds and \Blue angels but still employ 3 artists who can be replaced by computers who do the same thing.
Yeah, can't touch the Wite House and Obama's perks, now can we.
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