First of all do a googlesearch and you'll find pages upon pages of articles about Obama's inaugural costs. it's simply BS to suggest that the media is ignoring it. Why higher costs for Obama? Think about it, Purp. Err, never mind, I'll spell it out for you. 1. Security is much tighter and far bigger than in 2000. 9/11 changed everything wouldn't you say? 2. Crowd control was a vastly larger issue. Bush drew less than 400,000 people. Police say Obama drew from 1 to 2 million people. But was it four times higher? The way FOXnews and others are counting Bush's 2000 costs makes it seem so. But consider this . . . the Obama figure of $160 million that got repeated in the press included the security costs associated with the massive event. But the Bush tab of $42 million left out those enormous costs. Talk about stacking the deck.
Obama f'd up the oath of office. Nice start. I guess we should start up a collection of Obamaisms. By the way, from watching some of the balls, I'd say he dances like whitey.
How about the idiotic policies of trillion dollar deficits for years to come? Spending money like we have an endless supply. Then there is the policy of supporting bailouts to the auto industry. A ticking time bomb, this is only the beginning because the problem hasn't been corrected. The proper way would've been to let the auto makers restructure their contracts under a chapter 11 re-organization. The way it is now the tax payer will have to bail them out again and again. What we are really doing is bailing out the auto unions to make sure people keep expensive benefits that the auto companies can't afford. Seems like socialism to me, especially if congress tells them how to run their business, if this becomes part of the bailout plan. WE are in serious trouble if politicians start running private companies as well as bailing them out. Who will bail out our country or whats left of it in years to come? We could soon start to have an inflation problem? Signs of Jimmy Carter # 2
See: Cheney, Dick; Haliburton no-bid contracts. Yes, the last administration almost ruined us, but there is a new administration in office. They've had a week so far. Be patient. But Ron Reagan #2 is here! :grin:
Actually I would think that Barney Frank's ties to Fannie May and Freddie Mac are much worse than that! I mean to bring down the whole housing bubble? I can't wait until the first time you criticize the other side of the aisle. Still no evidence that I've seen, I'm sure I will be old and grey before this happens!:lol:
No, the timing isn't right. You, mean you waited until the economy is in the tank and we lost some of our properties? Maybe you should wait about another year!:thumb:
