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Obama Should Cut His Million-Dollar Golf Games, Not White House Tours

By Michael Ramirez
Tuesday, March 12 2013

According to NBC, canceling White House tours would save the administration $74,000 a week. Taking a separate vacation and pretending to be on the PGA Tour to train with Tiger Woods' coach and then play a round with Tiger himself cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1 million. As Sen. Jeff Sessions estimated, that was "enough money to save 341 federal workers from furlough." Incidentally, it happens to be enough to finance the White House tours of the "People's House" for half of the remaining fiscal year. The White House claims canceling the tours were "mandatory." Jay…

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