Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Parties in the white house...
I was reading an article the other day about how much planning goes into a white house state diner. There was a separate article on the Do's and Don’ts. In my opinion I think this is absurd. The president is suppose to throw about 30-50 white house state dinners in his 4 year term. I can understand maybe one to five but 50, that just seems a little over the top. I thought the president was a very busy man, but apparently we need to spend millions of dollars to entertain 60 people for 5 hours instead of using that money to help with the millions of people jobless or to fulfill all those presidential promises you made to the country during the election period. Now I understand that it is the first lady whose responsibility it is to actually plan and put together these white house state diners but I feel like millions of dollars would be better spent elsewhere then entertaining the elite. So in the end I understand it is taking no more than 5 hours of the presidents’ time but that five hours starts to add up every time they throw a party. So they end up spending around 250 hours of the presidents’ time which could be better used gaining alliances with other countries or thinking of ways to make our country better. The best use of this time would be helping all the soldiers in Iraq and trying to make peace and end this war. But our country is elitist and the best must have the best.
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I was reading this blog talking about how much time and money is tossed away for these dinner party’s at the white house and I totally agree with my classmate on this one. I do not understand why this is ok when people are going hungry with a crashing economy on the up rise. The blog had good information about how the president throws 30-50 of these dinner party’s in his 4-year term as president. These parties’ run an average of 5 hours of the president’s busy time. Again, I agree with the writer, is there not something better for the president to do or plan for. I know it is not that much time but just like the writer says it adds up to be around 250 hours. Therefore, instead of entertaining 60 people for that time couldn’t the president be figure out what to do with Afghanistan or maybe how to approach Iran. So in conclusion I totally agree with the writer in this blog and think if we truly want to get past this depression we are going to have to look deep within are selves and get rid of these costly unnecessary events and put the time and money into something else.
ReplyDeleteHands down I would defiantly have to agree with you about the ridicules amounts of parties or “state dinners” the President is expected to throw within his four years term. 50…? I completely agree that it is an absolute waste of money and that the money should be used on something that is a little bit more… necessary. And yes, I also agree that the amount of time that goes into all of this does indeed add up. I understand that the President has a life, and a family, and I do not expect him to be glued to his desk until his term is over, but I do not believe that the president should be accounted to hold 30 to 50 costly, 250 entertaining hours worth of state dinners. Heck, I think that they should even do away with the state dinners for now because our economy is doing so poorly; every penny counts. And not only that, the security guards that the President has… in the kindest words that I can find, suck. Honestly, I am really tired of hearing about all the extravagant parties, dinners, and dates that the president has. Is the money that contributes to all these events coming from our taxes? It better not be. To me it is starting to seem like Obama is looking more to be like a celebrity then he is our President. All in all I truly support Kailyn opinion of this matter. The time and the money could defiantly be put to better use.
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ReplyDeleteSo much is put into our country these days that I think that we do not even know where we are putting what most of us do not know what we have. Yes, I know that last statement makes little, or no sense, but I just like doing what our government does to us as an example. If you do not get it by now, I think that our government makes so many "rules" and "regulations" that we think that it is all hunky dory and dandy. It is not. We are given so many excuses to why we have so many rules to make the rich happy, just like the 50 parties our president "must" have.
ReplyDeleteWhat Kailyn Alvarado has discovered is a great way to point out that our president is taking the icing for him and not sharing it. He may have said let them eat cake, but only after I take what I want for my friends and me. This is not a blow toward our current president either; it is toward all of those who have "accomplished" this goal. If it changes this time around, praise the Lord!
I do not think, however, that the president is wasting ALL his time in these dinners, but I believe in some of these he is furthering relations with our allies, and possibly our enemies for treaty. So no, I do not think that they should be all taken away, but I agree that they should be VERY limited.
A recent Gallup approval number was out for President Obama, 47%. Forty-seven approve, 46% disapprove in the latest Gallup presidential tracking poll, 47% approval rate in Gallup. They struggled hard, folks. They worked hard to keep it up there at 50%, but reality has descendended even on Gallup. While I was watching Obama in the White House on television recently I dound about a White House Christmas party that's thrown annually for the media. I saw last week that there are going to be like 17 or 19 different White House parties totalling this year, with the last party being a party thrown for the residence staff. Well, maybe I could not crash it, show up and make 'em not let me in. And then start, you know, raising all hell: "Well , you let a couple other people without their names on the list not long ago, why not me? I'm a good democrat. An organization that serves as a watchdog on the U.S. government for American taxpayers has launched a campaign to uncover exactly how much tax money is being spent on parties at the Obama White House. The president has shown a penchant for lavish galas, such as thee huge assembly orchestrated in Denver when he accepted his party's nomination for president - an outdoor gathering for some 75,000 featuring a stage with Greek columns. He also held a multimillion-dollar victory celebration in Chicago, and his fancy inaugration cost an estimated $170 million, according to ABC News. I agree with most informed and concerned Americans, that the Obama Administration is over spending more than previous administrations and I wonder when it will stop.
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