The Most Expensive U.S. Inaguation in History

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150 thousand dollars so far. Who's footing the bill, why the American people of course. 44 thousand has been raised via donations and the rest sits squarely on the backs of the American tax payer.

On top of all that Barrak bought Michel a 33 thousand dollar ring for the Inauguration, just for helping him out with the campaign. Gee. How much does a Junior U.S Senetor make anyway.

1 billion for an economic bailout program. Who's going to pay for that? Not China, they have there own economic issues and are having difficulty buying up other nations debt. Not anyone but the American tax payer. You Bet.

Already, Obama has reneged on his most prominent campaign promises. No changes to capital gains taxes so the rich get to keep getting their tax breaks.
A continuation of Bushes tax rebate program essentially, Bushes education program essentially, Bushes bail out for big business and so forth.

Really, all Obama is doing is saying hey folks, I got into the white house and guess what, I really can't do any of what I promised so lets get government involved in your lives in a big way and everyone below $250,000 in income can be on government programs and welfare. We can build up the countries infastructure and provide jobs for the unemployed while we tax the employed middle class TO DEATH to pay for it. Yeah! and when the middle class falls into the unemployed ranks we can open soup kitchens with the rotting food the farmers can't sell and pay the unemployed to dole it out while we tax the upper middle class TO DEATH to pay for it. Yeah. Sounds good to me and Michel, but we'll as her mama just to be on the safe side.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not an Obama hater. I hope he does raise this country out of the slump we are in and restore our nation to the status it once had in this world. I just can't imagin how he's going to do that TAXING the very people he promised not to tax while favoring the very people he promised to tax while instituing programs that enable the poor to stay poor and the middle class to get poorer while we all have to live off of the government.

And another thing, whats he going to do with all the solders coming back from Iraq when shuts down the war? What's he going to do with alll the insergents he releases from Guantanamo when they start blowing up dignitaries in Iraq and the U.S.?

33 thousand dollars could go a long way towords boosting some small local enconomic areas. Sitting on his wifes finger it ain't doing a whole lot of good for anyone.

150 thousand could do even more.

Pehaps he plans of building the economy by training and employing more personal secuity personel. 50 thousand proly ain't enough.

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33 thousand dollars could go a long way towords boosting some small local enconomic areas. Sitting on his wifes finger it ain't doing a whole lot of good for anyone

The heck it isn't. It's a gift to his wife which most likely came out of his own salary. It's making her happy that he thinks so much of her and the support that she has shown him.

I'd do the same thing, in a heartbeat, for my wife too! Would you?

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I thought the same thing-nice of him to give her a pretty ring. She deserves it. It will come out of his pocket, not ours.

Inaugurations alwas cost money, that is part of the deal. And since he was elected, he deserves it. (and yes, I didn't vote for him, but he was elected, so he needs to be sworn in properly, it always costs money!)

Seems to me I read somewhere he was going to ride in a used carriage-that must save the taxpayers some loot......(I heard he was going to ride in the Lincoln carriage, is that true?)

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Same beef here. 'Prescott' buys a 2nd jaguar car..... press report it...... country up in arms it's coming out of their taxs.

Good luck to all the Obama family.

Our schools are getting all the kids to watch. It's the nearest thing America is going to get to a Royal Family since the Kennedy's.

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Originally Posted by Mustang

The heck it isn't. It's a gift to his wife which most likely came out of his own salary. It's making her happy that he thinks so much of her and the support that she has shown him.

I'd do the same thing, in a heartbeat, for my wife too! Would you?

Good lord man, I barely make fortythou a year. Besides, uhem, I'm female and personally I think jewelry is a misselaneous expense. I would much rather invest that kind of money in my home or family not on a rock on my finger that most likely depreciated as soon as I bought it.

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Originally Posted by chonsigirl

I thought the same thing-nice of him to give her a pretty ring. She deserves it. It will come out of his pocket, not ours.

Inaugurations alwas cost money, that is part of the deal. And since he was elected, he deserves it. (and yes, I didn't vote for him, but he was elected, so he needs to be sworn in properly, it always costs money!)

Seems to me I read somewhere he was going to ride in a used carriage-that must save the taxpayers some loot......(I heard he was going to ride in the Lincoln carriage, is that true?)

Yes, a priceless antique carriage used by Lincoln which had to be RESTORED at a cost of 30 or 40 thousand dollars just so he could ride in it.

Jeez louise, I'm gald all of you are doing so well financially that you and poo poo this extravigance when a full half of the country or better are struggling to get by.

How much does a Jounior Senetor make, I ask once again? NOT THAT FREAKING MUCH FOLKS. Nor does a President make that much, maybe 150 thou a year.

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I think a President makes $400,000 a year, but it might be higher.

As a historian, I am glad the carriage was refurbished. Otherwise, it might have slowly fallen apart over the years.

Maybe he will pay for it, out of the money HBO paid him for the concert. I wonder where that money will end up.........

Oh, I struggle too, with two jobs and I don't know how I will pay the electric bill next month. It is bad times, and we shall just do our best to get through it.

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Originally Posted by double helix

Yes, a priceless antique carriage used by Lincoln which had to be RESTORED at a cost of 30 or 40 thousand dollars just so he could ride in it.

Jeez louise, I'm gald all of you are doing so well financially that you and poo poo this extravigance when a full half of the country or better are struggling to get by.

How much does a Jounior Senetor make, I ask once again? NOT THAT FREAKING MUCH FOLKS. Nor does a President make that much, maybe 150 thou a year.

Darling..... If your man put a ring like that on your finger and could afford to do so you'd be telling folk to mind their own business.

Sour grapes perhaps??

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Same beef here. 'Prescott' buys a 2nd jaguar car..... press report it...... country up in arms it's coming out of their taxs.

Good luck to all the Obama family.

Our schools are getting all the kids to watch. It's the nearest thing America is going to get to a Royal Family since the Kennedy's.

It is a momentous event. And how fitting the it is Martin Luther Kings day today. He had a dream that one day the black man would stand side by side with the white man. As far as I knew that has been happening for the last forty years of so, at least in my neck of the woods.

Good lord. And years after Kennedy was assassinated it came out that he was loaded on speed and pain shots most of the time he was in office. He had sex parties in the freaking white house while in office and nearly pushed this country into war while on a three day amphetamine bender.
Yeah, He was a great president as long as we didn't know what was really going on. He was a great leader him and Jackie, the king and queen of America.

None of you find a stark contrast in what Obama campagned on, HELPING THE LITTLE PEOPLE of the country, and the extravigance of his office even before he is installed in it? I can't beleive that no one can see past this wonderful imiage of Obama the Savior to the self-rightousness in the man. Are you telling me that he is entitled to spend laveshly while another 3000 people have just lost their jobs, on top of the 7000 that lost their jobs last week and the ones on the verge of loosing theirs next week?

What would Martin Luther King say to all of this spending on the Obamanator.

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Originally Posted by double helix

It is a momentous event. And how fitting the it is Martin Luther Kings day today. He had a dream that one day the black man would stand side by side with the white man. As far as I knew that has been happening for the last forty years of so, at least in my neck of the woods.

Good lord. And years after Kennedy was assassinated it came out that he was loaded on speed and pain shots most of the time he was in office. He had sex parties in the freaking white house while in office and nearly pushed this country into war while on a three day amphetamine bender.
Yeah, He was a great president as long as we didn't know what was really going on. He was a great leader him and Jackie, the king and queen of America.

None of you find a stark contrast in what Obama campagned on, HELPING THE LITTLE PEOPLE of the country, and the extravigance of his office even before he is installed in it? I can't beleive that no one can see past this wonderful imiage of Obama the Savior to the self-rightousness in the man. Are you telling me that he is entitled to spend laveshly while another 3000 people have just lost their jobs, on top of the 7000 that lost their jobs last week and the ones on the verge of loosing theirs next week?

What would Martin Luther King say to all of this spending on the Obamanator.

I actually think Obama is the worst thing that has ever happened to America and the world. His pledge to forge 'special relationships' with Iran and mostly muslim countries is going to put the entire West at risk. However, this is not a political thread.
Dispite the fact that i believe there is going to be many dissapointed Americans when 'The Dream' does not come to fruition, I don't begrudge him putting a ring on the finger of his lovely wife.