How much!

The big party, inauguration for President-elect Obama is going to cost around $150 million, anyway that’s a report I read. The last inauguration that cost close to that amount was George W. Bush’s 2005 inauguration, which cost just over $42.3 million. So why in the world is Obama’s inauguration going to cost so much more? I read that a lot of the money being spent is on security measures. President Bush even declared an emergency in Washington, D.C. to free up $15 million that Congress set aside to help pay for Secret Service protection. I truly believe that this high cost is uncalled for. Times are so hard for Americans right now. This sends a bad message to all of us just trying to get by in our everyday lives. It seems like lately that the U.S. Government has a blank check for everything. If the U.S. Government was a business they would have been out of business a long time ago. We need real leaders in Congress to step in and say that this cost is uncalled for. They could do this inauguration a lot cheaper, at lease try to.