Comments:

Brin aka Bindyree - 2009-01-20 07:52:51 -
Since it was worth mentioning here, why don't you go ahead and provide the amount of money that the government spent on the 2005 inauguration versus private donations. The government is spending 47 million on Obama's inauguration and the rest is covered in private donations, like you said.

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Bob - 2009-01-20 14:16:49 - http://shadowgm.diaryland.com
Funny, I don't hear any of the 'costs too much' crowd talking about the $350 billion spent on bank executives' Christmas presents. And the same charge of extravagance was levelled against the Dems for Paul Wellstone's funeral.

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Dave - 2009-01-20 18:14:17 -
I did some checking. Proportionally, about 1/3 of the 2005 inauguration was taxpayer money - which is about the same for this inauguration.

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