Regarding "IRS spent $50 million on staff conferences" (Monday Nation), it's ironic that this orgy of party planning for IRS employees from 2010 to 2012 should come to light just two months after President Obama announced that White House tours for average citizens had to be cancelled because of the budget sequester.
Various reports put the weekly expenditure for White House tours at $74,000 per week. In other words, the money blown on faux conferences for IRS employees could have covered 13 years of White House tours; and that is but one example of inappropriate government expenditures.
These two events perfectly describe President Obama's priorities in the past five years. High Priority: shower perks on overpaid government workers. Low Priority: any gesture of good will towards the taxpayers who cover those salaries and perks. That's why it's all the more an outrage that President Obama continues to spend taxpayer funds hosting and entertaining all of his fat cat political contributors - in the White House.
Pete Smith
Cypress
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