Sequestration Does Not Impact White House Mega-Party

Would you like to take a tour of the White House?  It's easy.  All you have to do is write to your Congressman and ask for tickets.  Oh, wait.  They cancelled White House tours in the name of sequestration.  Then Obama flip-flopped, but only special groups can get a tour.  And most likely you're not special.  Flip-flopping - it's Obama's favorite trick.  Let's evaluate this.

The White House tours our conducted by......volunteers.  So you're not saving any money by getting rid of them.  Officially the White House claims that the cancelled tours are due to the security guards being reassigned to other posts.  Yadda-yadda-yadda.

Meanwhile, the King of Hypocricy, Lord Obama, who announced that he paid only 18% in taxes this year, has thrown a high-dollar Hollywood-style music concert in the White House complete with some of the biggest names in Memphis soul music.  Of course this is done at tax-payers expense.  If I'm not mistaken, they used some of the money saved from furloughing thousands of government employees to pay for the concert.  "Hey, look at all of this money we're saving by not paying federal employees.  Let's have a concert and only invite celebrity guests!"  Sounds like a great idea to me.

It is unclear how much the concert cost.  But you figure that they had to bring in all of the set-up including chairs, tables, lights, food, drinks, speakers, cocaine, stage, flooring, ambiance, strippers, security, organization, planning, etc...  Entertainers included Sam Moore of Sam and Dave, Justin Timberlake (because of his legendary contributions to Memphis soul music), Alabama Shakes, Ben Harper, Cyndi Lauper (because of her legendary contributions to Memphis soul music), Mavis Staples, Charlie Mussellwhite, William Bell, and Queen Latifah (because of her legendary contributions to Memphis soul music).

The concert was praised by Rolling Stones magazine and The Huffington Report, both of which are quick to criticize Republicans and just as quick to turn a blind eye on the Democrats.

And since Chris Van Hollen is now my Congressman, I did a quick Google search to count how many articles were written about him criticizing this wasteful spending.  I counted zero articles.  My conclusion?  Chris Van Hollen endorses wasteful spending by the White House.

Why do I feel that we, the tax payers, are constantly losing the battle of fairness?  It no longer appears to be a government by the people, for the people.  It's more and more becoming a government of the elite, against the people.

Does Martin O'Malley Hate Air Traffic Controllers?

Everyone has been talking about the sequestration and the doom and gloom that are certain to follow when the federal budget is cut.  It seems that according to Democrats, babies will starve, criminals will not be freed from prison, and old people will be kicked out of retirement homes and forced to live on worms and Funyuns.  Republicans, on the other hand, say that cutting the military's budget will result in the Chinese marching across the mid-west and taking all of our guns from us, and forcing us to buy all Chinese-made products   Oh, wait.  All of our products are already made in China.  And this reminds me of the joke my daughter told me: if God made everything, then he must be Chinese.

What are we to believe?

What we really should be concerned about is that fact that sequestration is shutting down air traffic control towers all across the country.  Towers in Maryland that are closing include Glenn L. Martin Airport in Essex, Easton Newnam Field in Easton, Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport, Frederick Municipal Airport, and Hagerstown Regional Richard A. Henson Field.  If I'm not mistaken, the only airports left with control towers are BWI, Naval Air Station Patuxant River, and Andrews Air Force Base.

I'm not a fan of closing air control towers. This HAS to make our skies less safe, right?  There's no one to guide take-offs and landings.  The first plane or helicopter accident will result in a massive outcry and a demanding of someone's head.  So I got to wondering, 'who is going to stand up against evil government and keep the airways in Maryland safe?'  Our magnanimous governor Martin O'Malley, right?!!!

I did a quick Google search to find articles about him speaking out against the closing of the air traffic control towers in his state.  Guess how many articles I found?  ZERO.  Check it out here.  Why does Martin O'Malley not care about safe air travel?  Why does he not care that these important and hard working people in his state are going to lose their jobs?  Why is he at least not making a nominal protest to be
on record?  The only conclusion that I can determine is that Martin O'Malley hates air traffic controllers.

What do you think?