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This money could have feed a lot of hungry children; to spend this much with the world the way it is to me is just ignorant. To wonder why there is no money for the important things well hers one of many many reasons, someone set me striate as to why.

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Had ms for over 19 years now.

I wish I could set you straight, but I think you're right - it's a real waste of money. Not only that, think about all the money that wasted on idiotic TV commercials during the campaign.

This is a tough one.

But, I don't think it's fair to just pick one item of cost as the scapegoat for mis-spent money. I remember during the campaign McCain tried to make an issue out of $3M for a movie projector Obama requested funding for in Illinos. We later found out it was for a planetarium that thousands visit every year. We could still make the judgement that it's still a waste, but there are two sides to every story. The count is about 1.5-2.0Million folks came out to see the inaugeration. I did not come to work that day, coincidentally, many of my coworkers where involved in the law enforcement work of the inaugeration. I was driving back from Vanderbilt from a realy good neurologist appointment. But, my point is, with that many people in town, there were not deaths, no major incidents, no terrorism attacks - that's not easy here in DC and I think the folks that made it happen deserve a lot of credit. I understand the point, but for me I need to see it for the importance it provided to the country. We still live in a country werein the peaceful transition of power can be celebrated in an open public gathering and all who desire to, can attend. Ken

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This is a non-issue that people like bill o'reiley pretend to care about. That Obama will lift the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research is much more important to me.

He's back!

Hey Robbie, they even took down all the lamp posts along the parade route b/c it looked better.

We had the same discussion at work as we watched about wasted money

Yea, Robbie - you are back!

170 million or not, our new president has done more for this nation in one week than dipshit Bush did in the last 7 years.

I'll donate for another inauguration in 4 years if he keeps doing what he's doing. I'll give a extra 5 bucks for the party when he overturns the Stem Cell Bush farce.

All waste like that should stop. The war, the extravagancies. Just because we have an open spigot running in Iraq doesn't mean we should just ignore, or look the other way, at waste in other places. I agree with Robbie. It's like the Merril Lynch CEO giving himself the giant bonus when they were losing their ass. Waste is waste, it doesn't matter what type of emotions it incites. We all need to get out of our hearts and back into our heads for a good long while fiscally.

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NO, it's like merrill lynch taking money from TARP then setting aside 1/20th of the funds to have a huge big "mortgage fair" that people are invited to so they can hear seminars on how to apply for the new funds available.

It is totally different, one is self indulgent (what merrill lynch really did) one is not because it is for the beneift of other people.

Bush's inauguration cost

from here
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200901170003

the apples to apples comparison is 43 million to 45 million 4 years later for Obama. Perfectly reasonable.

I have so had it with crappy investigative work on reporters parts!

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Had ms for over 19 years now.

I have so had it with discussion of this whole election!!

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I have so had it with crappy investigative work on reporters parts! [/quote]

What election? Did we have an election?

CF

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I think Obama will make a great prime minister

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Had ms for over 19 years now.