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<blockquote data-quote="Zable" data-source="post: 117383" data-attributes="member: 47">(Some functions here don&#039;t seem to be working for me right now)[USER=33]@Angela Channing[/USER]&nbsp;&nbsp; Jimmy Carter signed the Office of the First Lady into being, with permanent staff positions and federal funding to boot. I guess he had his reasons, and vision.It&#039;s been more than 40 years since then. Let’s peek into a week in the life of FLOTUS Melania Trump…. Per CNN, in March of this year:This week has been a busy one for the first lady, who gave remarks about the opioid crisis in New Hampshire as well as met with representatives from the internet to discuss kids and social media at the White House on Tuesday. Just this afternoon she delivered a speech at the State Department as part of the International Women of Courage awards&#039; ceremony.Last year, Melania Trump&#039;s air travel costs were bloated because she was juggling her roles as FLOTUS, with the Office of the First Lady in DC, and as a mum to a school-going child in a different state.Do you think that American taxpayers should (a) protest the waste of their money on a FLOTUS who is not perpetually busy week-on-week being FLOTUS and (b) lobby to have her office shut down? After all, you say she “apparently isn’t” doing “something useful with her role and profile”.&nbsp; (Am also curious to know if you think that CNN&#039;s use of the word &quot;busy&quot; to describe that particular week quoted is justified -- just trying to get a sense of what folk think is a proper workload for a FLOTUS who has a child not yet an adult.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zable, post: 117383, member: 47"] (Some functions here don't seem to be working for me right now) [USER=33]@Angela Channing[/USER] Jimmy Carter signed the Office of the First Lady into being, with permanent staff positions and federal funding to boot. I guess he had his reasons, and vision. It's been more than 40 years since then. Let’s peek into a week in the life of FLOTUS Melania Trump…. Per CNN, in March of this year: [INDENT][I]This week has been [U]a busy one[/U] for the first lady, who gave remarks about the opioid crisis in New Hampshire as well as met with representatives from the internet to discuss kids and social media at the White House on Tuesday. Just this afternoon she delivered a speech at the State Department as part of the International Women of Courage awards' ceremony.[/I][/INDENT] Last year, Melania Trump's air travel costs were bloated because she was juggling her roles as FLOTUS, with the Office of the First Lady in DC, and as a mum to a school-going child in a different state. Do you think that American taxpayers should (a) protest the waste of their money on a FLOTUS who is not perpetually busy week-on-week being FLOTUS and (b) lobby to have her office shut down? After all, you say she “apparently isn’t” doing “something useful with her role and profile”. (Am also curious to know if you think that CNN's use of the word "busy" to describe that particular week quoted is justified -- just trying to get a sense of what folk think is a proper workload for a FLOTUS who has a child not yet an adult. [/QUOTE]

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