Posted on 01/19/2009 8:37:54 PM PST by kellynla
The country is in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, which isn't stopping rich donors and the government from spending $170 million, or more, on the inauguration of Barack Obama .
The actual swearing-in ceremony will cost $1.24 million, according to Carole Florman, spokeswoman for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.
It's the security, parties and countless Porta-a-Potty rentals that really run up the bill.
The federal government estimates that it will spend roughly $49 million on the inaugural weekend. Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland have requested another $75 million from the federal government to help pay for their share of police, fire and medical services.
And then there is the party bill.
"We have a budget of roughly $45 million, maybe a little bit more," said Linda Douglass, spokeswoman for the inaugural committee.
That's more than the $42.3 million in private funds spent by President Bush's committee in 2005 or the $33 million spent for Bill Clinton's first inaugural in 1993.
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I guess this is why they’re hawking so many of those damn plates...
The whole damn thing is a virtual three ring circus.
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That SOB Springsteen got paid?He had one of the biggest grossing tours last year and he has to get paid for this.
What a joke.
Bread and circuses.
well whadda ya expect from this bunch...ya got a bunch of losers who have spent their entire lives in politics because they couldn't hack it in business, with their hands out looking for donations, immersed in getting elected & reelected...heck they not only don't donate much of their own money to charity, they don't even pay their damn taxes! "tacky?" tacky is a compliment for these pigs who live off the public trough! LMAO
Amen.
“The finance sector is well represented, despite its recent troubles,” Ritsch said. “Those who worked in finance still managed to pull together nearly $7 million for the inauguration.”
So NOW..we get the TRUTH of where some of the monies of the taxpayer funded ‘bail-out’ of Wall Street went:
TO OBAMA’S INAUGURATION!!
ALRIGHT PELOSI....READY FOR THOSE HEARINGS NOW!! Let’s get a little ‘transparency’ on Paulson and the Goldman Sacs boys in Obama’s ‘hood’!!
Is this disgusting enough for America yet?
The American Idol Inauguration.
We have men dying for our freedoms, and Barry is living it up. Isn’t that what they said about Bush? Barry ought to cancel the balls and just get sworn in in the capitol building and be done with it. Either way, I ain’t watching.
” That SOB Springsteen got paid?He had one of the biggest grossing tours last year and he has to get paid for this.
What a joke.”
<<2 observations:
1. Libs always want to spend OTHERS money; not their own. 2. Libs want everyone ELSE to give of their time and money.
What happened to the whole “service” idea?
Well, you see, you’ve got the biggest extroverts around between the blacks and the white democrats. Dey know how to parrrrtyyyy down! Dey know how to throw a parrrrtyyyy!
I think it is up to all of us that we come up with another Reagan.
It took a Carter to get a Reagan, so people will be looking I think for one.
Palin maybe. We shall see. We need someone who connects with people instantly and gets around the MSM.
Tough tough tough. But not impossible, you know it when you see it.
“a virtual three ring circus” And oh, so crowded with all of barry’s unwashed masses. Do you imagine the alqueda plague thing was just the tip of a few who are on their way to DC? Well, it would make a great book anyway.
If Clinton was Caligula then Zero is Nero.
Well, all the anti-California FReepers in the other 49 states can do their part...we've done ours, thank you.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Thanks to McCain, it's illegal NOT to pay him, otherwise it's an in-kind political contribution that would exceed the dollar limits.
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