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Originally Posted by dklassen
Another funny thing I heard today on the news. Bush's inauguration cost 40 million and all the folks on the left went nuts and newspapers starting running stories on how the money could be better spent such as immunizations for poor kids, etc.. you know the list.
Obama's inauguration is 150 million during the "worst financial crisis since the great depression" and not a word from anyone.
Things that make you go hum...
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What makes me go hum, is how you've misstated things. According to CBC
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bu...uguration.html Bush's $40 million inauguration didn't include the cost of security, which was estimated at $66 million giving a total of $116 million. Also, Bush's inauguration had an estimate of 200,000 people attending. They are preparing for ten times as many i.e.
2 million people to attend the historic inauguration of Obama, and the bulk of the $150 million is for security.