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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The repubican party is dead.
It's a shame that they won't have today's weather: 7 degrees.
The most important thing we all need to know is when he’ll be anointed with the chrism (holy oil) of kings and also when the diadem will be placed on his head.
And the threat of riots and turmoil if he did lose.
Its only bad when Conservatives or someone who is supposed to be a Conservative does it....
Liberals are allowed all the hypocrisy in the world.
And then Obama said, “Build for me a beautiful temple”.
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“...............and it was good.” ;)
Obama’s inauguration will be the most expensive in US history but his aunt lives either is a homeless person or lives in a shelter. Go figure!
I've increased my quarterly donation to FR in anticipation of the liberals' attempts to silence us.
But, but, it is the first time we have had a Messiah inniugamated
...Magnitude? BHO was elected president. He’ll be sworn in as president. Now go to work and fix the shht that’s wrong in DC...
Naturally the Obama inaguration would be the most expensive - sans the false styrofoam columns, mind you! Whatever this man does to spend money on anything for himself, his family, his desires, etc. his sheeple will feel he deserves. The psychological mindset is that it is a form of "retribution," that is owed to people of color. Those who complain or even mention anything negative - well, they are simply "racist."
But there are two levels of people for the Left.
there is the average, workaday slobs that know any better. They can carry the burden for the bums and lay abouts.
Then there is the Perfumed Princes. The rich and the spoiled. They dont care about raising Taxes because they have people who can skirt the laws.
I agree with that 1000%!
They were screaming about $150,000 for clothes for the Palin family?
When O’Dumbo’s Denver Stadium Templextravaganza cost $19 million? Their problem with money is a big one for us!
Did Baltimore greet Obama the way they greeted Lincoln-? If they had, maybe he would hide for the next four years-!
And he had the gall to send an e-mail to all his supporters to each send him $5 to help pay for this sideshow? He’s supposed to be on stage Tuesday morning, but had to make another campaign trip by train to boost his ego. I’m surprised he didn’t have rose petals strewn on the tracks from Philly to D.C.!
I wonder what the 250 or so who saw him off this morning at 30th Street Station had to pay for the “honor”?
I predict Queen Michelle will wear the Royal Purple!
How about his brother who lives on $12 a year???? He certainly is not his brother’s keeper—only his own. He will probably ask that the number of mirrors in the family quarter be quadrupled!
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