Are You Angry?

[dingdongyo]

To get back to the topic of this thread....it's bullshit.

http://mediamatters.org/columns/200901170003

i hate whoever wrote that. he repeats himself way too many times. it's why i lose interest in things.

i think i got the important parts, but fix it if i miss anything:

Here's why using the $160 million number and comparing it with Bush's 2005 costs represented a classic apples-and-oranges assessment: For years, the press routinely referred to the cost of presidential inaugurations by calculating how much money was spent on the swearing-in and the social activities surrounding that. The cost of the inauguration's security was virtually never factored into the final tab, as reported by the press.

The federal government spent $115 million dollars for the 2005 inauguration. Keep in mind, that $115 million price tag was separate from the money Bush backers bundled to put on the inauguration festivities. For that, they raised $42 million. So the bottom line for Bush's 2005 inauguration, including the cost of security? That's right, $157 million.