Why is this ok?

I was reading this blog talking about how much time and money is tossed away for these dinner party’s at the white house and I totally agree with my classmate on this one. I do not understand why this is ok when people are going hungry with a crashing economy on the up rise. The blog had good information about how the president throws 30-50 of these dinner party’s in his 4-year term as president. These parties’ run an average of 5 hours of the president’s busy time. Again, I agree with the writer, is there not something better for the president to do or plan for. I know it is not that much time but just like the writer says it adds up to be around 250 hours. Therefore, instead of entertaining 60 people for that time couldn’t the president be figure out what to do with Afghanistan or maybe how to approach Iran. So in conclusion I totally agree with the writer in this blog and think if we truly want to get past this depression we are going to have to look deep within are selves and get rid of these costly unnecessary events and put the time and money into something else.