Is that $15 million in addition to or including the cost of the two carrier groups we have down there helping, Windy? For that matter, doesn't all the privately raised tsunami aid count, or do you only count tax-funded assistance?
For that matter, it says here in the article you're quoting that the Homeland Security money could be used to pay the costs associated with the inauguration, since it hadn't been spent on anything else. Knowing the incredible efficiency of the DC city government, they'd probably forgotten they had the grant money sitting around. This is the same outfit, mind you, that bent over for Major League Baseball and agreed to build a new stadium with public funding, and which routinely leads the nation in per-pupil school spending while managing to trail Mississippi in student achievement.
But yeah, you're right, what the hell are we thinking, throwing a bash to celebrate W's inauguration (complete with Kid Rock, woo!) when people are dying in Iraq? For that matter, why did we celebrate Clinton's inaugural back in '91 when people were dying in Somalia and Bosnia? Gosh, there's really no reason at all for anyone to have a good time this year, what with the tsunami and the ongoing slaughter in the Sudan and the horrible repression continuing in Tibet. Let's just cancel Marscon and Anime Detour and Convergence too, and sit around in sackcloth and ashes this year meditating on how sad the world is and what fucked-up people live in it. Yeah, that's the ticket. *rolls eyes*
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 01:13 am (UTC)For that matter, it says here in the article you're quoting that the Homeland Security money could be used to pay the costs associated with the inauguration, since it hadn't been spent on anything else. Knowing the incredible efficiency of the DC city government, they'd probably forgotten they had the grant money sitting around. This is the same outfit, mind you, that bent over for Major League Baseball and agreed to build a new stadium with public funding, and which routinely leads the nation in per-pupil school spending while managing to trail Mississippi in student achievement.
But yeah, you're right, what the hell are we thinking, throwing a bash to celebrate W's inauguration (complete with Kid Rock, woo!) when people are dying in Iraq? For that matter, why did we celebrate Clinton's inaugural back in '91 when people were dying in Somalia and Bosnia? Gosh, there's really no reason at all for anyone to have a good time this year, what with the tsunami and the ongoing slaughter in the Sudan and the horrible repression continuing in Tibet. Let's just cancel Marscon and Anime Detour and Convergence too, and sit around in sackcloth and ashes this year meditating on how sad the world is and what fucked-up people live in it. Yeah, that's the ticket. *rolls eyes*