Too much spending - Inaugural
Monday, January 19th, 2009What 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.






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