Gasp! the press asks...Is the price tag too high for Bush's inauguration?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Wow!
"WASHINGTON - President Bush's second inauguration will cost tens of millions of dollars - $40 million alone in private donations for the balls, parade and other invitation-only parties.

With that kind of money, what could you buy?

-Two hundred armored Humvees with the best armor for troops in Iraq.

-Vaccinations and preventive health care for 22 million children in regions devastated by the tsunami"

more - http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=74157


I'm in shock! Maybe, just maybe, the Media will start behaving like journalists again...
:thumbsup:

[Eagle_Eye]

1. Not only is the price of inauguration too high

the price of having the monkey in office is going to kill us all

[DELUSIONAL]

2. that is the tip of the ice burg

D.C. is expected to pick up the tab for security --

There is probably more costs that we don't know about --

The huge military presence -- does that come out of the military budget or the off budget cost of war in Iraq?

[karlrschneider]

3. There's a link to their poll there "what do you think?"

http://www.katu.com/news/news_poll_inauguration_costs.asp

[ktowntennesseedem]

4. 73 votes so far, 92% say scale it back!!!

[dogtag]

5. If Shrub were a 'real' president, he would

take the oath in the Rose Garden sans fanfare and donate all monies raised for the inaugural to tsunami relief. Even without the tsunami catastrophe, the war alone should have made the mere thought of a hoopla second inaugural an exercise in extreme bad taste. I find everything the boy king does pretty revolting, but this really takes the cake.