The tour guides are all volunteers, the only expense to the gov’t is the security, which is there 24/7/365 anyway!
The tours for the schoolkids are usually planned several months to a year in advance. A six month delay means that this year’s class doesn’t get to go, as they will be in other classes and schools next year, despite raising the money for the trip.
Yet you say “tough noogies”. Life isn’t fair, so I suppose this is one way of teaching that, right?
Another citizen offered to pay the alleged expenses to keep the tours going, but the petulant one said “no”, and you appear to support that childish gesture.
There is NO legitimate reason to shut the doors of the White House to the people who pay for it. EVER.
I heard on the radio that the person who is in charge of the tours get’s 100,000 per year and that the others are volunteers.
Also there are two calligraphers and one head calligrapher. For a total of about $290,000.
Was there any thing easier for the senate dems to disagree with OB than this vote. A chance to make some people happy with ittle political consequence.
OB said on TV he was looking into the closing of the tours. I guess he made his decision.
The tours for the schoolkids are usually planned several months to a year in advance. A six month delay means that this year’s class doesn’t get to go, as they will be in other classes and schools next year, despite raising the money for the trip.
(You could) say “tough noogies”. Life isn’t fair, so I suppose this is one way of teaching that, right?
(Many individual citizens and groups) offered to pay the alleged expenses to keep the tours going, but the petulant one said “no.(..we must inflict maximum pain on the populace for the 'sequester' since we can blame the Republicans for that, and then they won't pay attention to Obamacare pain or our four vacations in three months. Just to be sure everyone's really distracted and continues to blame the GOP House, let's cancel the historic Cleveland Air Show because of the 'sequester' TOO)”.
There is NO legitimate reason to shut the doors of the White House to the people who pay for it. EVER. (Likewise delaying/closing National Parks, and otherwise relatively "cheap" budget items. NOTHING government-run is cheap, but the price of these "programs" pales in comparison to the profligate spending still going on for all kinds of useless "stimulus","earmark", and "personal executive" projects.)
Worth repeating! (with a few edits/additions from me...sorry, couldn't help it! So much to rant about here!!)