'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Inauguration celebrations have little to do with enjoyment for average people, and everything to do with the winning party fawning over and lavishing their wealthy supporters with expensive parties. It's disgusting when Republicans do it, it's disgusting when Democrats do it. Pretty much says "all you poor people can leave now, go enjoy the free museums and then gtfo of our city, the rich people are having their parties now, shoo."
Yeah, I'm not sure why that bothers you. The celebrations aren't taxpayer supported, and there's no way you could put all the poor people into the various ballrooms and such anyway. Besides, the museums of Washington D.C. are pretty nice. I'd be pretty happy with those. The "lavish celebrations" are really just expensive working dinners anyway.
On top of that, you really want to say people shouldn't have private parties? Really?
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Let him have his party. Every president before him did it so why start to complain now? Personally I have no issue with it.
#TeamLegion #UnderEarthofAzerothexpansion plz #Arathor4Alliance #TeamNoBlueHorde
Warrior-Magi
Notice how I said it's always been uncalled for. Must have missed that part because your Obama defender mode kicked in.
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So, now it's an expensive working dinner, not a party? It's not purely privately funded, otherwise I wouldn't care.
I'm pretty sure some would condemn Romney for this if he was elected.Notice how I said it's always been uncalled for. Must have missed that part because your Obama defender mode kicked in.
#TeamLegion #UnderEarthofAzerothexpansion plz #Arathor4Alliance #TeamNoBlueHorde
Warrior-Magi
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
If you want to be disgusted by rich people throwing money away take a ride around LA or Miami
The total price tag is still unclear at this point, but Secret Service protection, clean up, sanitation and other municiple functions aren't free. The Secret Service detail alone is probably several million dollars, considering the number of people being protected.
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What are you trying to point out?
This is a bullshit statistic, since the Secret Service detail is based on the President's needs. That's what they're there for. This is just as dishonest as including the salaries of the Secret Service staff in the cost when working out how much the President's vacation cost.
Those men were going to be paid to do their job regardless of what the President did that night.