Too much spending - Inaugural
What do people feel about the press and the spending on the Inaugural. Isn’t it disgusting that our country is broke and EVERYONE is spending money to come to Washington, DC. I think it’s disgusting. I know this is a Bodybuilding site, but with so many people broke I think the American people need to wake up.
In 2005, Reps. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and Jim McDermott, D-Wash., asked Bush to show a little less pomp and be a little more circumspect at his party. "President Roosevelt held his 1945 inaugural at the White House, making a short speech and serving guests cold chicken salad and plain pound cake," the two lawmakers wrote in a letter. "During World War I, President Wilson did not have any parties at his 1917 inaugural, saying that such festivities would be undignified." The thinking was that, with the nation at war, excessive celebration was inappropriate. Four years later, the nation is still at war. Unemployment has risen sharply. And Obama pressed Congress to release the second half of a $700 billion bailout package in hopes of rescuing a faltering banking industry.
January 20, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Well, I agree with you…but I have a feeling the country is truly not as broke as the mainstream media would have you believe…..look at it this way, all that money being spent in DC today is being circulated into the economy. So that is a good thing…..
February 19, 2009 at 6:16 pm
It’s interesting to note that the 2009 inauguration cost more than the 2001 and 2005 inaugurals - combined. The difference the "mainstream" media has a love affair going with BHO and they hated GWB from day one. I think that used to be called double standard. At this rate the only change we’ll see will be what’s left in our pockets!