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FORWARD
IN ANGST
Enter
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WHITE HOUSE TOURS:
THE ONE-DAY STORY THAT
ATE THE WORLD
IFE ISN’T EASY. It’s
filled with many inconveniences. The train
doesn’t run on time.
You shelled out a few hundred
bucks to see a Broadway show and
you got the understudy. There’s
raay-ayy-ayyn, on your wedding
day. Bummer, dude. I feel for you.
Of course, life is also filled with
what I would call “problems.” You
get furloughed from your job at a
time when money’s tight. You lose
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the housing assistance that’s helping keep you and your family in
your apartment when you’re unemployed. It’s real pain that forces
some harrowing choices.
So, where on the inconvenienceto-problem spectrum would you
put “a bunch of White House tours
have been canceled”? Well, the
media has decided it’s the most dire
crisis the country is facing, during
this time of sequestration.
The White House tours situation is the one-day story that ate
the world. Aggrieved members of
Congress, bereft of one of their
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