Mark Cuban, owner of Dallas Mavericks, asks bush to forgo inauguration

[Bouncy Ball]

festivities and send the money to tsunami aid. Post a comment to this blog entry if you would like. I have. I am amazed to find myself agreeing with Mark Cuban. And probably even more amazed to read what he wrote. He posted a bit further down in the blog comments and sounded even more unhappy with bush than in the original blog entry!

http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000260025530/#c93012

Start by cancelling your inauguration parties and festivities.
Could there be anything more confusing and shocking than to read that our country was offering $35mm in aid to the areas affected by the Tsunamis, but that the cost of inauguration parties would be about $40mm?

Does anyone else think that this is wrong?

I realize that the cost for the inauguration is being picked up by corporate sponsors and people purchasing outrageously priced tickets. The question is why.

Why are all these corporations and people spending all that money? Hey I love a good party, but there ain’t no party like a $10,000 per ticket party. It’s a 10k dollar ass kissing. As an accountant, fund raiser when asked about the high prices to attend the Inaugural events told the NY Times, “its the cost of playing the game”.