Prediction time, The White House Vegetable Garden
by Matt Giwer, © 2009 [Mar]

Just in time for the runner up Depression the White House is planting a vegetable garden. Drop the jokes. Watermelons are fruits.

What is going to happen? Someone is going to add up the total cost of this garden and find the cost per carrot is around $1000. The Great Giwer sees all and knows all. The future is open to me.

After a couple photo ops breaking ground and the cute kids planting something the day to day work will be done by the White House staff. This is staff that can pass a background check. This is staff that knows what it is doing so the garden will not be a failure. It must be lush and photogenic and no weeds to spoil the tourist pictures or even worse New York Times pictures. People who can do all this and pass a background check don't come cheap. Maybe this can be safely handled by the existing grounds keeping staff.

There will be the 24/7 Secret Service guards. No one wants it vandalized. Even less do they want marijuana planted. Nor do they want human feces as fertilizer or poisons added to the soil.

The cost is going to be significant. Worse than the ridicule of the price per carrot will be Pills Limbaugh drawing a bombastic moral lesson in a half hour monologue.

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