Not ALL the monies come from corporations CGT. Some come from you and I and were earmarked for our security...

Quote from Harper's Magazine Weekly Review posted January 18, 2005...

"The White House refused to reimburse Washington, D.C., for inauguration expenses, which will require $11.9 million to be diverted from homeland security funds, and[Washington Post] it was announced that no one may carry a cross along the parade route."

and...

Inaugural Expenses

I'm not saying there shouldn't have been a celebration...but as Presidents in wartime in the past have done...shave it down a pinch, eh? It just shows me how out of touch Bush can be! It would have made a nice gesture on his part to show his awareness of the current situation and his compassion for it. I feel like he lives in his own "Bush bubble" and this was the capper for me!

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