President Obama golfed 333 rounds as President. He took 217 days of vacation. Thus he spent 540 days on activities not concerning public business. The opportunity cost was substantial. He might have spent a few of those days fomenting legislation to employ those out of a job longest, first, with tax credit incentives to employers, have reduced patent exclusivity to three years with 10% royalties for inventors after that in order to increase the pace of business development, and unified homeless and poor people’s community clinics with an expanded V.A. hospital network to provide free walk-in health care for the poor for free, creating at the same time a back-up national emergency public medical service able to process millions of casualties.
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