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Too Poor to Pay (for meals of White House guests, because of all the entertaining)
American Spectator ^ | August 3, 2009 | The Prowler

Posted on 08/03/2009 6:09:58 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: reaganaut1

The bigger issue is that Obama can’t stick to a budget. He just spends until the money runs out. Its what him and Bill Ayers did at the Annenburg Foundation and its what he is doing with the Federal budget.


21 posted on 08/03/2009 6:39:25 AM PDT by Ticonderoga34 (Free Obama's Birth Certificate!)
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To: reaganaut1

Barbarians at the gates, vulgarians in the White House.


22 posted on 08/03/2009 6:42:39 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: dirtboy

I think he knows he may not be there long so he is getting all he can out of it.


23 posted on 08/03/2009 6:46:25 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks Right-Wing.)
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To: reaganaut1
"We've done a lot more entertaining than previous administrations have," says the White House aide. "The whispering here is that we're over budget and where we can, we're trying to save money."

Nights on the town in NYC and Paris cost a lot of money. Let the capitalists pay foe their own freaking meals, Michelle and I are now on easy street and are enjoying spending all that taxpayer money on our slightest whim.

24 posted on 08/03/2009 6:48:27 AM PDT by monocle
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To: reaganaut1
"The whispering here is that we're over budget and where we can, we're trying to save money."

Budgeting just isn't one of the Obama administrations strong points, if they have any strong points.

25 posted on 08/03/2009 6:49:17 AM PDT by Will88
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To: reaganaut1
I guess the WH will have to simplify its menu in order to make ends meet.


26 posted on 08/03/2009 6:49:23 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: reaganaut1
"We've done a lot more entertaining than previous administrations have," says the White House aide. "The whispering here is that we're over budget and where we can, we're trying to save money."

That is typical, utter bullshit. This is merely this "president"'s method of putting his guests in their place. Little gestures of rudeness like this add up to big enmity, which isn't forgiven easily, if at all. This clown had better watch his step, or his term in office may be shorter and much more difficult than he had imagined.

27 posted on 08/03/2009 6:56:12 AM PDT by Skid Marx
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To: rod1

Maybe we can all just “eat cake!”


28 posted on 08/03/2009 7:00:08 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Diversity causes division and resentment.)
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To: reaganaut1
I don't have a problem with someone having to pay for their own meal if that individual specifically asks for a meeting with the President over a meal. I do have a problem with it if the President is doing the inviting.

If Obama needs to curtail costs, let the members of Congress and other Dem political cronies pay for THEIR meals.

29 posted on 08/03/2009 7:02:34 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: reaganaut1; LucyT; Fred Nerks; SatinDoll; Beckwith; Polarik; george76; F15Eagle
Obama hasn't got even a whisper of "nobless oblige" anywhere in his narrow minded frame.

Obama spends his entertainment budget on Dems and the Bwack Caucus. If you are from the greedy business social class, or are in auto industry management, and NOW if your are in the Health Care industry, you must pay for your own meal at the white house.( Remember the lobster Snacks on the Campaign Trail in New York City?)

This is typical self righteous Utopian idjit manners.If there is no hospitality, its because Obama wants to disempower his "guests."

Hell, I wouldn't eat in the White House without a professional food taster by my side.Meals from fascists? You couldn't pay me enough to eat Obama food. (It would just be puked up anyway.)

And I certainly would never have eaten anything cooked on a grill by Bill Clinton either, ( no telling where his hands had just been.)

30 posted on 08/03/2009 7:04:24 AM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule ,derision ,truth. (member NRA)
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To: reaganaut1
The House and Senate will invariably approve a bailout for/to the Barry abused White House budget.
31 posted on 08/03/2009 7:05:31 AM PDT by cranked
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To: reaganaut1
"We've done a lot more entertaining than previous administrations have," says the White House aide. "The whispering here is that we're over budget and where we can, we're trying to save money."

Gee, what a surprise.

/sarc

32 posted on 08/03/2009 7:06:27 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: nikos1121
Then I’d like to know who is NOT having to pay for their meals.

Zero's mother-in-law. She lives at the WH off of OUR dime!!!

33 posted on 08/03/2009 7:09:45 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: reaganaut1

I had to keep going back to checking the source and still found it hard to believe this was a genuine article, not onion or scrappleface.

It’s exactly what they’re doing to the economy. Borrowing up front zillions of dollars and not having anything (or much) left at the end.


34 posted on 08/03/2009 7:11:40 AM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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To: reaganaut1
Let me guess;

whe ObaMao threw the grand whiskey bash at the White House, Stevie Wonderless and Hollyweird Celebrities, they paid for their own booze?

And did Barry pay for the Pizza flown in from St Louis on Air Force One, out of his own pocket? Or how about all of the wonderful date nights he and his over fashioned wife have spent millions on?

35 posted on 08/03/2009 7:12:15 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Give me LIBERTY or give me an M-24A2!)
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To: DustyMoment
Zero's mother-in-law. She lives at the WH off of OUR dime!!!

I don't think so. I may be wrong, but I believe the 0bama's pay for their own food. Labor as in cooks, waiters is likely free.

36 posted on 08/03/2009 7:12:20 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: nikos1121
Then I’d like to know who is NOT having to pay for their meals.

The members of the state-owned media:

However, when journalists were feted with other friends of the White House on the South Lawn last month, with dunk tanks, food and drink, they were not asked to pay for their entertainment

37 posted on 08/03/2009 7:13:48 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: libertarian27
Line 5, on Form 2106.
38 posted on 08/03/2009 7:28:23 AM PDT by Polarik (Obama: When destroying America is not enough.)
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To: reaganaut1

What did it cost taxpayers for Michelle and the girls to go for Fish and Chips in London?


39 posted on 08/03/2009 7:34:23 AM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: reaganaut1
We never see the Obomas filmed inside the White House. They're always filmed outside. What kind of a rat hole have they turned that place into?
God speed, 2012.

(Never give a community organizer a presidents job.)

40 posted on 08/03/2009 7:34:57 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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