Remind me again, why does the White House need a chief calligrapher?
The White House may no longer offer public tours because of “the sequester,” but it will still employ three professional calligraphers for a yearly total of $277,050. That’s some expensive handwritin’.
(Image: White House History)
I’m a traditionalist who appreciates pomp & circumstance and I enjoy fancy penmanship as much as the next girl, but I couldn’t help but wonder why we pay a single person more than $95,000/year to do this job. Here’s my simple budget solution: Send Valerie Jarrett over to the local Hobby Lobby store, have her meander a bit around the art supplies section and ask for volunteers. Boom: Problem solved.
Fun fact: When I worked as an intern in the Bush White House, we recruited volunteers with good handwriting to make out invitations to the vice president’s Christmas parties. (Yeah, Chief Justice John Roberts — that invitation was addressed by ME.)
Allow me to leave you with this question to ponder: If President Obama can use an Autopen machine to sign important legislation into law, why can’t we use one for calligraphy?
Bonus: Since Michelle, Sasha and Malia Obama are all staying at the White House rent free, why don’t we just recruit them to be tour guides? Man, I am just FULL of solutions today.
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backitupmiss-c
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 8:12pmI would think in this day and age of technology and just a click of a mouse you can print any handwriting out and you can even set the Font size,even the gardener and do that,but than he’d need a raise.The I.C.S.A ‘s of government. “Icecream sh*tters of America”
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boss_ross
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 4:26pmI read that the tour guides at the white house were volunteers anyway. so what’s the cost of giving a tour to a house we pay for in the first place? cancelling tours is such a childish action to such a non-event as the ‘sequester.’ OR, it was a strategic plan of action to keep the people away when Marshall Law is enacted and Revolution part Deux commences
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Scarlettsgone
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 3:24pmIs there an official bikini waxer? Worst job imaginable.
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Flkhis90796LKHgp0
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 2:49pmMicrosoft Word could do the same thing, real funny where cuts are made or not made. When it comes to the public cut it when a politicans beneifit it can’t be lost.
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