The hypocrisy of Obama's 15-day Vineyard vacation

CURL: The hypocrisy of Obama's 15-day Vineyard vacation - Washington Times:
"On April 1, the U.S. economy dropped a whopping 2.9 percent for the first three months of the year (no fooling).
The American workforce participation rate fell to a 40-year low.
One-third of people aged 18-29 have moved back in with their parents.
Millions of Americans this summer will enjoy yet another “staycation”:
They just can’t afford to go to the beach or the mountains, even for a week — again.
Swipe cut to President Obama:
He’s eating shave ice in Honolulu; playing golf (some 180 rounds so far); jetting off to Martha’s Vineyard for a 15-day vacation in a $12 million house on the beach.
He’s playing pool in Colorado (he turned down an offer from a young heckler to smoke some weed); eating barbecue with a college student in Minnesota; hitting fundraiser after fundraiser across the country (at $228,000 an hour for his swank 747 super-jumbo jet).
Cut back to the economy.
By the end of April (no fooling), the federal government had set a new record for total tax receipts, pulling in $1,735,030,000,000. 
Yes, you people out there sent in $1.7 trillion — in seven months. 
It didn’t matter, though:
The government still ran a $306 billion deficit.
By the end of fiscal year 2014, you’ll have sent in more than $3 trillion total, but the feds will spend $3.65 trillion, a deficit of some $650 billion, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Fade to black.
Fin.
The job of president is, in large part, about perception — style over substance.
The president really can’t do much (especially this one); he gets blamed for things that aren’t his fault (but also takes credit for things that aren’t his doing, especially this one).
In the end, all the president has is his character.
It’s like Andrew Shepherd says in “The American President”:
“For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being president of this country was, to a certain extent, about character I can tell you without hesitation — being president of this country is entirely about character.” (If it’s in a Hollywood movie, it must be true.)