Paying for the Inauguration

Well the time is upon us. Tomorrow is the day. The Big Inaugural, and so it's time for my first political post of the new year. On Face the Nation Sunday, they reported that this year's inauguration was going to be funded by the taxpayers. Yes, the taxpayers of Washington DC is going to foot the bill for the parades, the grandstand, the balls, everything. All previous incoming Presidents, and second term inaugurations have been funded by the administration. Not George. The administration informed the city that they were going to have to pay this year. Well you can imagine the backlash from that! SO the administration then suggested that they take extra funds from the newly developed Terrorisim Fund. This money is earmarked and set aside to help cover the costs of terrorisim that may come to DC. You know, armored vests, weapons and all the other things needed that the President and his administration has warned us that could happen at anytime. So let me get this straight. He is elected President even after he got us into a war that now seems futile. He and his adminsitration has warned us to the point of setting up new agencies to secure our protection, but yet he wants us to pay for HIS PARTY out of those same funds? Which by the way were paid by the taxpayers. And this is just the beginning. It will get worse.

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