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 Dave Ross
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One of the casualties of the recent budget cuts is that the White House tours have been canceled. Spokesman Jay Carney knows that a lot of tourists will be disappointed. But someone from Fox News wants to solve the problem. (MyNorthwest.com Photo/Alyssa Kleven)

The rich step up

BY Dave Ross  on March 8, 2013 @ 11:57 am (Updated: 12:28 pm - 3/8/13 )

One of the casualties of the recent budget cuts is that the White House tours have been canceled. Spokesman Jay Carney knows that a lot of tourists will be disappointed.

"The Secret Service presented options. The White House made the decision that we would unfortunately have to temporarily suspend these tours."

Well, on the Fox News Channel - Eric Bolling, former commodities trader turned talk host - proposed a solution.

"Word is, it will cost around $74,000. If I can get the White House doors open, I will pick up the tab. Mr. Carney, you know this is an offer you can't refuse. Give me a call."

Bolling hosts a show called "The Five." His other four panelists seemed stunned.

"I think we just realized "The Five" isn't your primary source of income!" laughed one.

"If Kimberly and I volunteer to do the tours, can we get in on that scratch?" asked another.

But he's serious. "I will absolutely write the check."

And if that's what it takes - if well-off Americans would rather pay a la carte instead of the additional taxes the President wants, why not take the deal?

In fact, since Congress can't pass a budget, since the President is so desperate he's started treating the members to fancy meals, plying them with Lobster Thermidor - a pox on them all!

They had their chance. We have the Internet now. The White House can post a list of the cuts, and anyone with money who feels strongly about them can use one-click ordering to put it on their Pay Pal account.

It's no more arbitrary than what's going on already.

Dave Ross, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
Dave Ross is co-host of The Ross & Burbank Show on KIRO Radio (weekdays 9-Noon) and never too far from the spotlight.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    Dow has hit a new HIGH
    March 9, 2013 8:08 am
    So the "evil" rich are getting richer? This must not be allowed to continue. It's funny because the first time over Barry's entire "presidency" that the free market is happy and profitable is when he loses and the gov't spending gets slowed (not reduced). See Barry did not want this to occur. HE LOST ON THIS. Yet the free market won. And you twist it that somehow Barry's responsible? THAT IS HILARIOUS!!!
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  • wsualumn wrote...
    HPD
    March 9, 2013 5:55 pm
    He did not want this to happen? He continued the bailouts. Face it, if he wanted total failure, he wouldn't have been reelected. I think you are a bit caught up with Rush and Hannity. As we know, they are seldom correct.
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  • Rick W7PSK wrote...
    Look up Quantative Easing
    March 11, 2013 9:17 am
    we are on QE3 or 4. Wonder when the Cards fall?
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  • roomtemp wrote...
    @Rick W7PSK...
    March 11, 2013 12:41 pm
    I think they stopped numbering QE after #3. QE3 is basically QEternity.

    "Wonder when the Cards fall?"

    We've been losing almost 1% of our currency value per year for the last 100 years. We have about 3% left to burn.

    It won't be long now. I don't blame Obama for that. It was happening long before he was born. He's just a banker pawn like the rest. But looking at the numbers, things are likely to crash on his watch.

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  • sohojo wrote...
    Who wants to Visit
    March 9, 2013 6:54 pm
    That dump anyway? Not me! I'm so unimpressed by the way the country is being run that I have no desire. If this is defined as the "big hit" because of the sequester then so be it. I think we we all survive.
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  • Rangerhawk wrote...
    So the 1 Percenters are going to kick in eh?
    March 9, 2013 9:41 pm
    No irony in that at all with the 99 Percenters occupying Wall Street.
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  • Mavila wrote...
    Dave...
    March 10, 2013 9:21 pm
    please stop with the lies. I can't believe you're a "news anchor."

    The House Republicans have passed a budget but those rascally Senate Democrats have not.

    They haven't lifted a finger to write a budget in nearly four years and we wouldn't be talking about sequester, debt ceilings or continuing resolutions if your party would do their job in the Senate.

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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    wsualumn
    March 11, 2013 5:48 am
    Total failure? Of course your Dear Leader is!

    All you mindless brainwashed Left wing Parrots voted for this insanity.

    TWICE!

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  • HLC wrote...
    Of cource they voted the socialist fool back in.
    March 11, 2013 9:52 am
    To not vote him back in would have been admitting they screwed up the first time. The left will never grow a pair and admit they were wrong.
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  • JCEJackson wrote...
    Horrible Precedent but Take It!
    March 11, 2013 3:59 pm
    What a terrible state of affairs. We used to be self-governing in this country and our representatives in government worked hard for the people. Now we have gridlock, with the wealthy and influential looking out for themselves and the heck with everyone else. If it now takes a wealthy benefactor to pay the freight for citizens to visit the White House, take it. Maybe, one day, sanity will return to this country and we can return to self-governance rather than non-governance.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    So Obamas just another LAZY Black huh?
    March 12, 2013 5:58 am
    SOOO! Here it is, Messedup the ONE, back with her racist hate filled left wing comments.

    Hey Messedup, Bill has you so pegged that it isn't even funny anymore!

    Just cannot get over the fact that the race card does not work on the rest of us. Only you Left wing Parrots. That's okay by me!

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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Aaaaahhhh!!!
    March 12, 2013 7:36 am
    The sky is falling, the sky is falling. The value of the dollar is collapsing, pretty soon we'll all be eating soylent green (well this one might be true). What a bunch of chicken littles. Repeat after me, America is not Greece. Relax.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    So Left wing Parrots
    March 12, 2013 12:24 pm
    when is your Dear Leader going to cut the deficit in half? When will your Dear Leader lower the unemployment to 5.4 percent?

    When will your Dear Leader do like what Comrade Ross is saying and pitch in our stolen tax dollars to re open the White House to us taxpayers?

    Left wing Parrots it is your Dear Leader who is the ONE PERCENTER in America. The very person that you useful idiots have been taught to hate all of your life!

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