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."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
$100 would feed his half-brother for a year.
“This is a highly dangerous character flaw”
Especially when dealing with other world leaders who have nukes and/or large armies.
Do you even have to ask?
Of course we're paying for it. Did you think minorities would take up a collection?
We will will be paying for more in the next four years than you ever thought you could afford in a million years.
In fact, you can't really afford it anyway, but thats just too @#$%&^*^ bad for you.
Afford it anyway, because the messiah says you should/will.
And I hated that Sarah stopped wearing the clothes, screw ‘em all I would have said.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES
OBAMA, THE STOCK MARKET, AND ENERGY
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING
What ostentatious excess. Think of all the hungry children that $150,000,000 could feed, and the elderly out there surviving on dog food. Think of all the poor kids who could be provided a college education.
Heck, I forgot, that BS is only for Republican inauguration events.
oh that is tasteful.
stay classy barry
BUT ER UH ER UH UH ER ER UH - We’re in a RECESSION!
At the very least I hope it’s so blumin’ cold that the parade is cancelled and they hold all those liberal egos inside for the swearing in ceremony - I know I’ll be swearing!
and keep on costing long after the ceremony is over !
I can’t wait til she runs! And isn’t managed by the creeps who handled her this time. All the attacks and insults will just roll right off her back. She knows who she is and doesn’t need those idiots to validate her.
My daughter-in-law is a hockey mom—altho her son is long grown—and those ladies aren’t scared of anything! Especially the toothless, hairless, spineless, creeps populating most of the media.
How sweet of you to remember your Dad in your tagline. Scares me what Odumbo will try to do to our military!
by a weird coincidence...
Battered Wall St tops Obama inaugural donors: study
Reuters | January 17, 2009 | Kevin Drawbaugh
Posted on 01/17/2009 7:35:37 AM PST by bd476
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166408/posts
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RAW DATA: Obama’s Speech at the Lincoln Memorial Concert
FoxNews | Jan. 18, 2009 | Barack Hussein Obama
Posted on 01/18/2009 3:56:53 PM PST by FocusNexus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167098/posts
Obama raring to go
News24 / Agence France Presse | January 18, 2009
Posted on 01/18/2009 2:51:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167077/posts
Expensive? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Consistent with the desire of the Amnerican people to spend themselves into prosperity. Has this ever worked?
People may have to apologize to Stalin before this nightmare ends, and it has not yet officially begun! John McPain will be the emcee!
Coronations are not cheap...
good ditty.
-my sentiments also!
In answer - partly - to your question:
Obama Hosting Pricey Party in a Dicey Economy
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i3aj2L6rRy-2tP3IeVNiC5_wh8SwD95P263O0
“Obama’s inaugural committee has raised more than $41 million to cover events ranging from a Philadelphia-to-Washington train ride to a megastar concert with Beyonce, U2 and Bruce Springsteen to 10 official inaugural balls. Add to that the massive costs of security and transportation — costs absorbed by U.S. taxpayers — and the historic inauguration will produce an equally historic bill.”
I am Boycotting ALL movies and those who supported Obama!!
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