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enhanced_deficit
10-06-2013, 02:34 PM
Are these tax payers funded golf courses open just in case 'commander-in-chief' decides to go golfing?

Troops Forage for Food While Golfers Play On in Shutdown

By Jeff Plungis, Mark Drajem & David Lerman
Grocery stores on Army bases in the U.S. are closed. The golf course at Andrews Air Force base is open.
All 128 employees of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. are working, while 3,000 safety inspectors employed by the Federal Aviation Administration are off the job.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/troops-forage-for-food-while-golfers-play-on-in-shutdown.html

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1292841/thumbs/r-OBAMA-MARTHAS-VINEYARD-large570.jpg?6 (http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=oD1BsPh0wd_ZJM&tbnid=Ia7BVpOetKjGzM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2013%2F0 8%2F11%2Fobama-marthas-vineyard_n_3740131.html&ei=hMhRUpW4HYTa9QS1g4DoCg&bvm=bv.53537100,d.eWU&psig=AFQjCNF6RTdPQZArM73o48hKCDj9sefvlQ&ust=1381177834143452)


As Shutdown Crisis Unfolds, Obama Sets Personal Golf Record
(http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/09/30/shutdown-crisis-unfolds-obama-sets-personal-golf-record)
By KEITH KOFFLER, White House Dossier
As the House moved Saturday toward passing legislation that will likely result in a government shutdown, President Obama excused himself to play his customary Saturday golf, a round that set a record for most golf outings in a year since he became president.
It is perhaps emblematic of his declining influence on Capitol Hill that Obama chose not to work to affect the outcome of one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in years and instead engaged in his favorite recreational activity.

http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/09/30/shutdown-crisis-unfolds-obama-sets-personal-golf-record


Obama's favorite golf courses open during shutdown (http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/magnolia/opinion/tom-toth-obama-s-favorite-golf-courses-open-during-shutdown/article_cd75e968-2e11-11e3-a31b-0019bb2963f4.html)

Saturday, October 5, 2013 10:55 pm
By TOM TOTH / Americans for Limited Government
Chipping out from the Capitol Hill bunker, President Barack Obama often enjoys getting away from the bustle of Washington politics to enjoy a round a golf–more precisely 146 rounds since he entered office.

His favorite courses are on military bases at Andrews Air Force Base and Fort Belvoir. So when the government shutdown hit Washington–closing grocery stores (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/troops-forage-for-food-while-golfers-play-on-in-shutdown.html?utm_source=WhatCounts+Publicaster+Ed ition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Daily+Editorialist%3a+Shutdown+Sa turday+Special&utm_content=open+for+play) on military bases including Andrews and Fort Belvoir, barricading national memorials, and threatening football games for the service academies–one could assume that the president's pastime of choice taking place on federal property is on ice until he and the rest of the folks on the Hill get business squared away.

CPUd
10-06-2013, 02:53 PM
http://i.imgur.com/BsfoZFN.gif

green73
10-06-2013, 02:55 PM
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Lucille
10-06-2013, 03:13 PM
What's really galling:


The Andrews Air Force Base golf course is funded through user fees and that’s why it remains open, said Air Force Captain Lindy Singleton, chief of public affairs for the 11th Wing at Andrews.

So are over one thousand others (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?429438-It-s-Official-US-Forest-Service-Closing-over-1000-Privately-Funded-Parks) he Barrycaded.

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2013/10/first-explanation-in-writing-as-to-why-usfs-is-closing-privately-funded-parks.html


From our shutdown order:


Congress has not provided appropriations for fiscal year 2014. Pursuant to applicable legal requirements in the Antideficiency Act and Attorney General opinions addressing agency operations in the absence of appropriations, the Forest Service is unable to administer federally-owned recreation facilities. Consequently these facilities will be shut down and posted accordingly with signs provided, with gates locked where they exist, restrooms locked, and water systems shut down. Visitors in occupied sites would be given 48 hours to vacate, with the area shut down as the last visitor leaves, not to exceed 48 hours.

In other words, we pay all the bills, run the parks in an independent manner, have no USFS people stationed in the parks, but we have to shut down because the Forest Service can no longer "administer" the facilities. Huh? What day-to-day administration is necessary. Remember that the USFS itself did not think their presence was necessary, originally confirming on Tuesday that we would stay open as we had in all past shutdowns.

We often go weeks and months in these facilities without ever seeing a USFS manager. The USFS considers it so important to have staff available to "administer" these facilities that none of their recreation personnel work on weekends or on holidays, by far and away the busiest and most difficult times in these facilities.

Also, oil, gas, and mining operations on federal land are still going on.

enhanced_deficit
10-06-2013, 03:24 PM
http://i.imgur.com/BsfoZFN.gif

For once maybe I can retort lol

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/12/obama-golf-wide.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg (http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=nKx5lQLjsvlUIM&tbnid=0kzY0mRMcqQddM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Fdaily%2Fintelligencer %2F2013%2F08%2Fobama-golf-putt-gif-photo-leg-marthas-vineyard.html&ei=rtRRUsXVL4Go9gTOgoHoCA&bvm=bv.53537100,d.eWU&psig=AFQjCNFdcJZHaTubz14ZNEuxLp-RJVtPIg&ust=1381180971698720)