George W. Bush isn't just wasting taxpayer money on propaganda tactics
- let's spare a thought for his upcoming $40 million inauguration
shindig.
This will be Bush's second $40 million inauguration, apparently
intended to "celebrate the troops," although perhaps since almost 1400
of our soldiers have been killed since Bush's first inauguration, some
of that $40 million should go to buying armor for their humvees.
Alternatively, some of the money could be used to top up our
commitment to disaster relief in southeast Asia, where 150,000 people
are dead and millions more are at risk.
Although, to be fair, I hear there are going to be some wonderful
fireworks down on the National Mall.
To put this in perspective, Bill Clinton's first inauguration party
cost $33 million and his second cost $23.7 million - and that, as
Bernard Ries put it in the Washington Post, was when "the economy
sparkled, Clinton had won a rousing election victory, we weren't at
war - and a sizable portion of the world had not just fallen apart."
I guess when Our Great Leader asks America to make sacrifices during
this time of war, he's not talking about himself or his fatcat
buddies.
From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
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