Well Mr Obama, you shocked me again...

Wow, I was just astonished when I learned that the cost of Mr. Obama little inauguration party had soared to over $160 million! Crazy right? $160 million!!! Now just as a comparison, how much do you think President Bush spent on his last inauguration ball? Any guesses? $40 million. Yeah, that's right $120 million LESS then Mr Obama!

Now that we're in the midst of an economic downturn, yeah, go out there and get all dressed up, spend it up, bad economic times, this is when we need to indulge ourselves with the mostexpensive in US history. Is this the change Change we can believe in?

In fact, in back on January 13th, 2005 the Associated Press, wrote an article stating: "President Bush's second inauguration will cost tens of millions of dollars, $40 million alone in private donations for the balls, parade and other invitation-only parties. With that kind of money, what could you buy? Two hundred armored Humvees with the best armor for troops in Iraq; vaccinations and preventive health care for 22 million children in regions devastated by the tsunami; a down payment on the nation's deficit, which hit a record-breaking $412 billion last year."

And the thing that is just driving me NUTS is the damn media... They just sit there and bash Bush a million times over... But not one story so far about how many people in Darfur could we feed with this $160 million? How many Africans could be vaccinated against AIDS for some of this $160 million? How many homes we could you buy for the Katrina victims that the media's s still complaining about with this $160 million? What about all the children without health care? What about all of the middle-class people without jobs? How many people could be aided with a portion of Obama's inauguration budget? Bush's was $40 million and they were asking how it could be better spent, that it's unnecessary. We weren't in a recession either, by the way, we weren't in an economic downturn. So now, by all means, go on and live it up, because guess what Mr. Obama, like everything else, you're exempt.