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Last updated on March 6th, 2018 at 12:30 am
The Associated Press reports:
President Bush’s second inauguration will cost tens of millions of dollars – $40 million alone in private donations for the balls, parade and other invitation-only parties. With that kind of money, what could you buy?
– 200 armored Humvees with the best armor for troops in Iraq.
– Vaccinations and preventive health care for 22 million children in regions devastated by the tsunami.
– A down payment on the nation’s deficit, which hit a record-breaking $412 billion last year.
– Two years’ salary for the Mets’ new center fielder Carlos Beltran, or all of pitcher Randy Johnson’s contract extension with the New York Yankees.
And 1,100 years of positive comments from Daily Kos!
- Well, heaven knows Clinton had all the money donated for his inagurations given to charity instead.Posted by ushie on 01/16 at 03:39 AM • #
- “ 200 armored Humvees with the best armor for troops in Iraq”
This is the same puke who dissed the contractors murdered in Fallujah? Puh-LEASE! Crocodile tears from this jerk move me not.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 01/16 at 03:54 AM • #
- PJ �
1. Once, if he knows you have that much.
2. How many drops are there in the ocean?
3. If he travels the same way he did last time, we could pay him in Monopoly money and save a bundle.
4. None. The Canadians still haven’t said they’ll take any. They’ve got Quebecois, so it’s fair to say they’ve suffered enough…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 01/16 at 04:40 AM • #
- Does he point out that all these things are being paid for (largely by private Americans) anyway?
Dude fails to see that we’re a nation both rich and generous. We throw a big party for the President, and somehow manage to spare a few get-well-soon cards for Indonesia. (And the Lincoln and stuff.)
Posted by Brian Tiemann on 01/16 at 05:10 AM • #
- I live in DC, which will be crawling next week with thousands of Bush-hating loons “protesting” the inaugural. How much will these people spend on gas and airfare getting here? Hotel rooms? Paper Machier? How much police overtime will be spent baby-sitting them? Couldn’t THAT money have been spent on (fill in the blank)?
Oh well, at least “lost wages” won’t be an issue with that group.
Posted by Buzz Crutcher on 01/16 at 06:06 AM • #
- Here’s a steaming hot story for that AP ‘reporter’: thanks to tax cuts and resulting GDP growth, the US budget deficit is now projected to be about $355 billion for 2005. That’s a reduction of nearly $60 billion from the previous year.
In their deficit-conscious non-partisanship, AP will no doubt trumpet the shrinking deficit in every news story where it might conceivably fit.
- Buzz Crutcher,
But all that money is being spent for a good cause: protesting against President Bush. The protest-a-week crowd will be able make their FEELINGS be known. And, for that crowd, that’s all that matters.
Will it accomplish one damn thing? Of course not. It’s the left we’re talking about here. They haven’t accomplished one damn thing in about a half-century.
Look at who’s going to be in town for the inauguration. Republicans and Bush-supporters. They could care less what the wing-nut brigade has to say.
Look at who actually lives in Washington, DC. John Kerry got 90% of their votes. The wing-nut brigade is preaching to the choir.
Posted by David Crawford on 01/16 at 11:54 AM • #
- “You could buy 40 million lottery tickets.”
Or, 2 million lap-dances.
Posted by David Crawford on 01/16 at 11:56 AM • #
- If you’re down in Washington, DC, get some video and stills of the election protesters. It’s all grist for the mill in 2006.Posted by richard mcenroe on 01/16 at 12:21 PM • #
- Whenever something like this comes up, I can’t help but remember this story from the Bible:
3 Then Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.
4 Then one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son who was to betray Him, said,
5 “Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?”
6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money bag and took what was put therein.
(and no, I’m not comparing Bush to JC.)
- Billionaire Mark Cuban… questioned spending all that money on the inaugural. …on his blog, a Web journal.
Cuban challenged Bush to set an example: “Start by canceling your inauguration parties and festivities.”
dear mark,
no-one needs a billion dollars.
i challenge you to set an example. start by giving $900,000,000 to [your favorite charity.]
- If only Mark Cuban could muttle though a season without Dirk Nowitski. Imagine how many third world kids could be innoculated by the 16 million dollars he throws away on the big Germans salary.Posted by papertiger on 01/17 at 01:30 AM • #
