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| Baldo | Mar 18 2013, 09:23 PM Post #1 |
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The White House has suggested there will be no traditional Easter Egg Hunt on the White House lawn this year due to sequester cuts. Could a government shutdown doom the White House Easter Egg Roll? For more than a century, the White House Easter Egg Roll has been insulated from the sort of partisan sniping that now dominates Washington politics. That tradition ended Monday, when Republicans started complaining about a notice that the event could be canceled due to a potential government shutdown. The Obama administration has already come under GOP criticism for canceling White House tours due to the mandatory, across-the-board cuts known as sequestration...snipped http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/18/white-house-easter-egg-roll-sequestrations-next-victim/ Reporter Asks Carney: Will Obama Cut Back on Lavish Vacations, Golf Trips? Carney punts. Bringing up high unemployment in minority communities and government furloughs, the reporter started, as well as "millions of Americans unemployed, and family budgets that have been cut. How does the president justify lavish vacations and a golf trip to Florida at taxpayer expense? And does he plan to cut back on his travels?" Carney responded, "I can tell you that this president is focused every day on policies that create economic growth and help advance job creation." UPDATE: Here's the full exchange: Q All right. I wanted to follow up on this young woman’s question about the high unemployment out in places like Colorado, all around the country, especially in the minority communities -- exceptionally high unemployment. And when there is government workers who may be furloughed, millions of Americans unemployed, and family budgets that have been cut, how does the President justify lavish vacations and a golf trip to Florida at taxpayer expense? And does he plan to cut back on his travel? MR. CARNEY: I can tell you that this President is focused every day on policies that create economic growth and help advance job creation. We have presided over the past three years over an economy that’s produced over 6.3 million private sector jobs, and we have more work to do. And this President’s number-one priority is growth and job creation. When you come to -- Q But it’s not working in the minority communities. MR. CARNEY: Well, the fact is unemployment has come down. It has not come down nearly enough. And what we need to do is embrace policies that advance job creation, make secure the middle class, and create ladders of opportunity for those who aspire to the middle class. We certainly do not need to embrace economic policies that shift the entire burden of deficit reduction onto senior citizens, middle-class families, Medicaid recipients. The proposal coming out of the House would slash Medicaid by a third. Q But it doesn’t affect inner-city jobs. MR. CARNEY: It doesn’t? You don’t think it does? Q No. MR. CARNEY: People who depend on Medicaid to help take care of their kids who are disabled. People who depend on Medicaid to take care of their parents who are in nursing homes. People who are not in the middle class but aspire to it, who depend directly on Medicaid. I think you need to examine what the Medicaid program actually does....snipped http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/reporter-asks-carney-will-obama-cut-back-lavish-vacations-golf-trips_707767.html Edited by Baldo, Mar 18 2013, 09:33 PM.
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| LTC8K6 | Mar 18 2013, 10:24 PM Post #2 |
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Assistant to The Devil Himself
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But...Carney already said the Easter egg roll was financed separately and would go on as usual. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/03/thats-how-they-roll.php |
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| chatham | Mar 19 2013, 07:23 AM Post #3 |
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obama is trying hard to make people hate him..... more than they alrady do. |
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| kbp | Mar 19 2013, 07:39 AM Post #4 |
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The WH writes the Sequester with an objective to force the go-along-GOP crowd into holding blame for changes to avoid it, the WH signed the Sequester into law, and now the WH is trying to blame the GOP for the Sequester ...UNSUCCESSFULLY! However, NOBODY in the MSM will hold Barry responsible, so he knows he can step on the Easter kiddies in his blame game that redirects attention away from the entitlements that must be cut to control spending. |
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