One of Obama's preferred golf courses, the course on Andrews Airforce Base remains open during the government shutdown. The grocery stores on the base, where troops get discounted groceries for their families are, however, closed. They will shop "at local stores that cost about 30 percent more, Lieutenant General Raymond Mason, the service’s deputy chief of staff for logistics, said yesterday at a House hearing."What they say is that the golf course is paid for by private funds.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.Obama hit the links last weekend for a round, on the eve of the possible shutdown. Last week the President played his 35th round of golf this year.
But the WWII Memorial was paid for by private funds. They claimed that the need to protect federal lands required barrycading it nevertheless.
And some private home owners leased government land on Lake Mead. These are private homes. Therefore paid for by private funds. The only connection to the government was that they pay the government for their lease.
They've been forced out of their homes. And yet The Dear Leader golfs.
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