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Shouldn't the first family make spending cuts?
Since we're in such an economic crisis in this country, wouldn't it seem right that the first family cut down on their expenses to help ease the burden on tax payers? Do they really need 5 White House chefs? Does Michelle really need to redecorate their living quarters? We as Americans let our first families get away with too much. We treat them like royalty which is such an outdated concept in this day and age.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Cuts/
They are spending it faster than we can make it$$$$$$$$$$$$ It's get even time--and obama is going to bankrupt us--in favor of his trillions in spending--and to redecorate--all michelle's taste is in her mouth.
- MargraveLv 51 decade ago
Interesting question!
Well, let us gather our wits and think about this one. Leading by example in a time when reduced consumer spending is part of the problem? If they cut back, then we will cut back, reducing the amount of economic activity further still, making recovery even more difficult.
A huge part of this crisis was consumers living beyond their means, with full encouragement from banks and lending institutions and ridiculously puffed up real estate prices.--in other words, the economy became overheated. But now, it is supercooled.
And the folks who lead companies are worsening the situation by reducing economic activity further still, closing factories and plants and laying off workers.
Perhaps te best thing they can do is keep spending at the same level at the White House (well, maybe no more half-million dollar China sets).
OK, so maybe 5 Chefs is excessive. Chef's can always find work, so if we drop two, perhaps that money should be used to create three new jobs.
You do NOT improve this situation by closings and lay-offs. Of course if several large companies went totally bankrupt and put us in a depression, perhaps we could get back to free-competition capitalism for a while, and perhaps that would be worth the price of years standing in bread lines and eating at soup kitchens, because at least we would be freed from the yoke of these ridiculous corporate organisms who put the bottom line ahead of human survival.
But whatever they do at the White House is unlikely to have much effect one way or the other except as a leadership example. And an example of diminished confidence would be interesting, but not perhaps what you, as questioner, are really hoping for.
- 1 decade ago
Come on now, don't you want to pay for cocktail parties every time he gets his own way with passing a bill, lol
