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Posted on 01/20/2005 12:30:49 PM PST by WisGod
Due to $17 million worth of inaugural security – paid for by the city of Washington, D.C. – the Progress Report is unable to access its office. Never fear – it takes a lot more than that to keep us down. We put this list together for you ahead of time. Your regularly scheduled Progress Report returns tomorrow.
A look at this week's festivities by the numbers:
$40 million: Cost of Bush inaugural ball festivities, not counting security costs.
$2,000: Amount FDR spent on the inaugural in 1945…about $20,000 in today's dollars.
$20,000: Cost of yellow roses purchased for inaugural festivities by D.C.'s Ritz Carlton.
200: Number of Humvees outfitted with top-of-the-line armor for troops in Iraq that could have been purchased with the amount of money blown on the inauguration.
$10,000: Price of an inaugural package at the Fairmont Hotel, which includes a Beluga caviar and Dom Perignon reception, a chauffeured Rolls Royce and two actors posing as "faux" Secret Service agents, complete with black sunglasses and cufflink walkie-talkies.
400: Pounds of lobster provided for "inaugural feeding frenzy" at the exclusive Mandarin Oriental hotel.
3,000: Number of "Laura Bush Cowboy cookies" provided for "inaugural feeding frenzy" at the Mandarin hotel.
$1: Amount per guest President Carter spent on snacks for guests at his inaugural parties. To stick to a tight budget, he served pretzels, peanuts, crackers and cheese and had cash bars.
22 million: Number of children in regions devastated by the tsunami who could have received vaccinations and preventive health care with the amount of money spent on the inauguration.
1,160,000: Number of girls who could be sent to school for a year in Afghanistan with the amount of money lavished on the inauguration.
$15,000: The down payment to rent a fur coat paid by one gala attendee who didn't want the hassle of schlepping her own through the airport.
$200,500: Price of a room package at D.C.'s Mandarin Oriental, including presidential suite, chauffeured Mercedes limo and outfits from Neiman Marcus.
2,500: Number of U.S. troops used to stand guard as President Bush takes his oath of office
26,000: Number of Kevlar vests for U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan that could be purchased for $40 million.
$290: Bonus that could go to each American solider serving in Iraq, if inauguration funds were used for that purpose.
$6.3 million: Amount contributed by the finance and investment industry, which works out to be 25 percent of all the money collected.
$17 million: Amount of money the White House is forcing the cash-strapped city of Washington, D.C., to pony up for inauguration security.
9: Percentage of D.C. residents who voted for Bush in 2004.
66: Percentage of Americans who think this over-the-top inauguration should have been scaled back.
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We get lots of trolls, so folks are suspicious. |
Does anyone need further evidence?
You Might be a Troll if ...
If that post is the best you can come up with ... you might be a troll.
If you like DU ... you might be a troll.
If you have had more than two screen names at Free Republic in one week ... you might be a troll.
If you can't remember the last time you bathed ... you might be a troll.
If you think that U.S. courts should consider the rulings and opinions of the courts of other countries rather than basing their rulings exclusively on the U.S. Constitution and the laws of the U.S. and of its several states ... you might be a troll.
If you think The Guardian is anything other than a socialist rag ... you are probably a troll.
If you think algore really won the Florida election, but the mean old US Supreme Court wouldn't allow the rules for counting ballots to be changed to your liking ... you must be a troll.
If you think the economy would be doing better if Congress hadn't passed those piddly little tax cuts ... you must be a troll.
If you think foreign policy under an algore or john fonda kerry administration would make us safer from attack from our enemies ... you must be a troll.
Hey troll, this viking kitty has a message for you:
As for pushing people to the side of the dems... no FReeper can be pushed ANYWHERE.
Now you stepped in it, s!
If I read it correctly, poster uses reply #1 to contradict the lefty article's points.
That's the title of the article linked.
I don't think he wote the "screed"..in fact, in post #1, he seems to rebut the screed.
I am a junior member of the VKs, but my sniffer does not detect Troll...yet. :^)
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I concur.
I'll reserve judgment for now, but the screen name alone reeks of troll.
LOL
Misfire...
Kitties Stand Down!!!!
Well said. Hold fire! He's no troll!
Welcome to FR.
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
SO NOTE TO DUmmies: BETTER STAY CLEAR, THESE GUYS ARE OFF DUTY TONIGHT AND ARE HANGING OUT INTHE HOTEL...lol
Alright...to address your concerns...1. my screen name is facetious, but not in a smarmy I'm better than you dimocrat way...I'm a religious person and believe that W is a blessing for this godless country...2. the title of the thread is the title of the article...in the future I'll refrain from appropriately naming the articles...3. I received the link from this jerk at work as I described in on of my above posts...4. I don't even know what this means...to the contrary I state multiple times in my first post that I don't give a hoot what people do with their money, because THEY EARNED IT FAIR AND SQUARE, I don't know if you don't have faith in a free market sir but I sure do and I work hard for my money so I'm free to spend it on what I want. As for the list you have below, none of them apply to me I think this is the greatest country in the world and all other countries long to have the prosperity that we have. I have helped elected our great president twice, even though both have been in blue states...I went to his first inauguration and stood in the rain to see what I couldn't believe actually happened the Supreme Court got Justice right and sent the whiny liberal back to a state that didn't even welcome him cause they voted for W. So how dare you question my allegiance...if you can't recognize a friend I question where your loyalty lies sir.
If you are pushed toward the dems that easily, you is already a dem.
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