cwo_ghwebb
07-16-2012, 06:15 AM
The president campaigns incessantly for the youth vote on the public dime.
According to Generation Opportunity (GO), a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization that works with 18- to 29-year-olds, the president and vice president, their wives, and officials from 30 different administration departments and agencies have visited high schools and colleges on taxpayer-funded trips between March 2011 and May 2012. GO documents show 240 separate trips in that 15-month period, in addition to more than 60 commencement addresses. That means an administration official visited some campus every 48 hours during that period. And Generation Opportunity did not review trips prior to March 2011, before which Obama officials may well have been making just as many visits. Young America’s Foundation reports that the president himself has spoken on a high-school or college campus once every twelve days during his presidency.Obama (http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/309312/obama-s-school-vacations-ian-tuttle?pg=1)
All these trips have been classified as official travel.
The irony is that, had administration officials devoted their time to developing real solutions to the youth-unemployment crisis, they might not need so much time on the road to hunt for votes, the public coffers would be better off, and we would have a government that spends its time governing.
According to Generation Opportunity (GO), a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization that works with 18- to 29-year-olds, the president and vice president, their wives, and officials from 30 different administration departments and agencies have visited high schools and colleges on taxpayer-funded trips between March 2011 and May 2012. GO documents show 240 separate trips in that 15-month period, in addition to more than 60 commencement addresses. That means an administration official visited some campus every 48 hours during that period. And Generation Opportunity did not review trips prior to March 2011, before which Obama officials may well have been making just as many visits. Young America’s Foundation reports that the president himself has spoken on a high-school or college campus once every twelve days during his presidency.Obama (http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/309312/obama-s-school-vacations-ian-tuttle?pg=1)
All these trips have been classified as official travel.
The irony is that, had administration officials devoted their time to developing real solutions to the youth-unemployment crisis, they might not need so much time on the road to hunt for votes, the public coffers would be better off, and we would have a government that spends its time governing.