GOP's idea of fiscal responsibility: Cutting the President's teleprompter, decorating budget

[Bluebear]

...Among them were a proposal from Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., to eliminate funding for the president's Teleprompter and one from Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, to strip funding for the alteration, repair or improvement of the executive residence of the White House and instead divert that amount to deficit reduction.


While we're at it, let's cut Paul Ryan's hair gel (and dye, as if we didn't notice) budget, and John Boehner's tanning salon membership. As for Eric Cantor, time to cut off his subscription to Martha Stewart Living and all those Broadway musicals. Fair is fair.

via Americablog:

http://www.americablog.com/2011/02/gops-idea-of-fiscal-responsibility.html

[Tx4obama]

1. Regarding the White House

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However the Obamas decide to proceed, they’ll have to follow a few basic rules. For starters, they will have to pay for their own movers. And while Congress budgets $100,000 in household transition costs for every new administration, if the Obamas spend more than that — and most first families do — they will have to cover the expense of decorating their private quarters with private donations. In addition, they can’t change the public rooms without the approval of a committee of preservationists.


DECORATING the White House is the first lady’s job; she presides over the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, a board of appointees that includes her decorator and the White House curator, as well as art historians, furniture and decorative art experts and other advisers on historic preservation.

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Renovations of the public rooms, additions to the formidable collections of art and furniture, and any restoration work is overseen by the committee and financed by the White House Endowment fund, which now has assets of about $27 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/garden/18whitehouse.html


$100,000 (for a 4 or 8 year time period is a drop in the bucket)


EDITED TO ADD

The Obama's paid for the private residence renovations themselves WITH THEIR OWN MONEY when they moved in.

http://www.hiptics.com/2009/03/30/barack-michelle-obama-pay-for-white-house-renovations-with-their-own-money/