Obama has 30% more money in the current budget than Bush had in his largest budget, and plenty of money for million dollar golf weekends – but there isn’t enough money for a band performance.
The Obama administration blamed sequester cuts for having to cancel a traditional Marine Corps Band performance Sunday at the St. Patricks Day parade in Rocky Point, N.Y.
“We’re political pawns,” Joe Cognitore, commander of the Rocky Point VFW Post, which co-sponsored the parade, told the New York Post.
Marine Band’s no-show in St. Patrick’s Day parade blamed on sequester – Washington Times
h/t to Dave G