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Just when you thought you’d see it all, this comes along! A Chia Pet in the likeness of our new President, Barack Obama!
Watch our president’s afro grow in to a beautiful green shrub! The ridiculous website selling this pointless item states proudly “YES WE CAN, In this special offer you can order… Determined Chia Obama pose or Happy Chia Obama pose or both!.” I don’t think I’ll be ordering either one.
The glitter dust is clearly shinning brightly on President-elect Barack Obama. Now it is being reported the cost of the Inauguration will total a whopping, $170 million (or more.) How that kind of money can be spent, while much of the country is suffering, in the worst economic times since the 1920’ is mind-boggling.
‘Where’ that huge sum of money comes from is also surprising with banks, brokers and Wall Street giving over $7 million.
More numbers reveal the actual swearing-in will cost $1.24 million, however, security, parties and portable toilet rentals dramatically run up the bill.
The government? Latest estimates show around $49 million will be dropped on the inaugural. Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland have asked for $75mil to help pay for extra cops, fire and ambulance services.
Linda Douglas, a spokesperson for the inaugural committee who will handle the party, proudly declared, “We have a budget of roughly $45 million, maybe a little bit more!”
Private funds to the tune of $42.3 was spent by President Bush’s committee in 2005 and $33 million spent for Bill Clinton’s first inaugural in 1993, so this makes Obama’s fiesta the most costly in history. All this when, American is in the worst shape, economically speaking, in over 80 years.
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