'Let them eat gingerbread'! So, how much did we pay for this WH Christmas confection? [photo]

No kidding:

"A lot of love goes into this 500 pound gingerbread house!" —Susie Morrison, head pastry chef at the White House pic.twitter.com/lxWaNEMhbz

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) December 24, 2015

Gee, that’s great. Just great.

A lot of love and taxpayer money. https://t.co/pMWmuVtXVC

— Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) December 24, 2015

.@WhiteHouse also, a metric shit-ton of money beaten out of middle class taxpayershttps://t.co/9y6wTVYM4Q

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 24, 2015

How tone-deaf is the Obama White House?

No need to answer … that’s a rhetorical question.

https://twitter.com/ChiliDawgFan/status/680143918072086528

@WhiteHouse Nice to see our tax dollars at work. You better warn the chef, Michele is gonna flip out over that non-nutritious snack there.

— An Angry Hamster (@TxAngryHamster) December 24, 2015

.@WhiteHouse hope there's enough that Caligula's horse can have secondshttps://t.co/9y6wTVYM4Q

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 24, 2015

https://twitter.com/lyz_estrada/status/680137778986811392

93,000,000 Americans are out of the work force. Let them eat gingerbread cake, I guess. https://t.co/64zxMwUETa

— Area Man (@lheal) December 24, 2015

"Let Them Eat Gingerbread." – The @WhiteHouse #NewVersailles https://t.co/tbS0nZf0We

— Craig S. Bell (@craig_s_bell) December 24, 2015

https://twitter.com/JohnBurtner/status/680140068347076608