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Obama's inauguration set to be the most expensive in US history
guardian.co.uk ^ | January 14, 2009 | Ewen MacAskill

Posted on 01/14/2009 7:17:04 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

President Barack Obama's inauguration next week is set to be the most expensive ever, predicted to reach over $150m (£102m). This dwarfs the $42.3m spent on George Bush's inauguration in 2005 and the $33m spent on Bill Clinton's in 1993.

Part of the spending includes emergency funding announced by the White House on Tuesday to help with the soaring costs. Most of this new federal funding will be to deal with the huge influx of people, estimated 1.5 million to 2 million.

A White House statement said that President Bush "declared an emergency exists in the District of Columbia".

If there is snow, the costs will grow higher. The long-term forecast suggests there is a chance of snow on Sunday and again on the day of inauguration, on Tuesday.

Carole Florman, spokeswoman for the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, told the New York Daily News, which estimated the cost at $160m: "We're always very budget conscious. But we're sending a message to the entire world about our peaceful transition of power, and you don't want it to look like a schlock affair. It needs to be appropriate to the magnitude of events that it is."

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To: Free ThinkerNY

This will be more of an in-auger-ation.


61 posted on 01/16/2009 3:12:31 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: madison10
I suppose we’re paying for the farce...

Hell no, it's government money, silly.

62 posted on 01/16/2009 3:14:55 PM PST by glock rocks (Well, it sounded like a good idea at the time...)
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To: Mila
We can only hope for a major ice and snowstorm on the 20th.

Now that would be sweeet!!

63 posted on 01/16/2009 3:16:05 PM PST by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: bert
the first black man to be president

No he isn't. He's the first half black man to be president.

Zero, the Halfrican.

Black, white, and red all over.

64 posted on 01/16/2009 3:20:21 PM PST by glock rocks (Well, it sounded like a good idea at the time...)
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To: sionnsar; Free ThinkerNY
You need to Photoshop the text — I clearly read “Stalin”...

Yes..quite clear. But, on the other hand, isn't that the translation of "Obama"?

65 posted on 01/16/2009 3:30:42 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

Yup...


66 posted on 01/16/2009 3:43:50 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: madison10
“I suppose we’re paying for the farce...”

Remember how the MSM and dems screamed it to the rooftops how GWB was so damned extravagant with his simple inaugurations.

AND THIS ONE IS GOING TO BE, WHAT, 10x MORE $$?

67 posted on 01/16/2009 3:44:05 PM PST by dbacks (God help the USA.)
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To: mplsconservative

“It’s going to be a crazy few years. I hope this country survives.”

I saw 3-4 feature articles on FNS which showed envirowacos state as FACT that we cannot use any more fossil fuels, nuclear power and wind power.

I firmly believe the ZERO will ban all oil, nuke and coal power within 1 year of taking office. Right after banning guns and the armed taking thereof.

This country is doomed.


68 posted on 01/16/2009 3:48:24 PM PST by dbacks (God help the USA.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I don’t want anyone to get hurt but I think it would be funny if they had a snow storm during the proceedings.


69 posted on 01/16/2009 3:50:00 PM PST by kempo
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To: Libloather

and how about all those Kevlar jackets the libs were screaming about four years ago?


70 posted on 01/16/2009 3:51:17 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Free ThinkerNY
$150m

Taxpayer's money. But forget about it. Let's rather talk about Palin's RNC wardrobe.

71 posted on 01/16/2009 4:04:05 PM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - America the Beautiful)
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To: kempo

How about blizzard and thunderstorm?


72 posted on 01/16/2009 4:10:58 PM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - America the Beautiful)
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To: SolidWood
Obama's inauguration set to be the most expensive in US history.

Let me fix the title...

Obama's inauguration administration set to be the most expensive in US history.

5.56mm

73 posted on 01/16/2009 4:14:08 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Your petty bourgeois concern for money is inconsequential to the Great Benefactor



74 posted on 01/16/2009 4:33:55 PM PST by egannacht
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To: glock rocks

Is that like a Heffalump?


75 posted on 01/16/2009 4:34:54 PM PST by egannacht
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ah yes, mustn’t look bad to the rest of the world. Better to spend excessively while all the little, less important people of the world are struggling. That’s the message we should be sending. Change..........


76 posted on 01/16/2009 4:36:53 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: egannacht
Is that like a Heffalump?

I don't think so. Pooh never actually caught the heffalump stealing the honey out of the honeypot. We'll be able to watch, live on HDTV, for the next four years. Brace yerself!

77 posted on 01/16/2009 4:44:00 PM PST by glock rocks (Well, it sounded like a good idea at the time...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
["Part of the spending includes emergency funding announced by the White House on Tuesday to help with the soaring costs."]

Looks like everybody's getting a bailout these days.

Obama's setting a great Leadership example here. Not.

78 posted on 01/16/2009 4:58:09 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (The committed will surely dominate the complacent.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Idi Amin.


79 posted on 01/16/2009 5:16:55 PM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Libloather
...toilets rimmed the entire mall...

How apropos...........

80 posted on 01/16/2009 5:20:12 PM PST by MamaLucci (Merry Fitzmas Illinois!)
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