$750,000,000,000 blue collar (not union) taxpayers dollars can buy a lot of fun and festivities for the politcal and wall street enriched and they will enjoy every dime the stupid is as stupid does American taxpayer paid for in the ever escalating givaway to the children and women who control American monies.
I ask because in 2004, we were told this by the MSM:
For Inauguration in Wartime, a Lingering Question of Tone (Published: January 16, 2005)
Some critics say spending so much on these parties seems ill-timed both because of the Iraq war and the tsunami catastrophe in Asia. Anthony D. Weiner, a Democratic congressman preparing to run for mayor of New York, sent President Bush a letter on Tuesday suggesting that the millions in inaugural funds be sent to the troops in Iraq.