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Friday, December 10, 2004 |
NY Times: "Tickets to all official inaugural events, including an 'elegant' candlelight dinner with a special appearance by President Bush: $100,000.
Tickets to all official inaugural events, two additional tickets to an 'exclusive' lunch with Mr. Bush and Vice President Cheney, plus an all-access pass to any inaugural ball: $250,000.
Mr. Bush's inaugural committee, seeking to raise more than $40 million, a record, sent out hundreds of solicitations to the president's biggest campaign contributors this week offering packages of party benefits and access to the president in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Even at a time of war when more than 138,000 American troops are serving in Iraq, the organizers say that the inaugural celebration at the end of the January will not be marked by any noticeable restraint and will cost more than any other in history."
12:57:09 PM 
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CommonDreams: "The U.S. Congress' new blueprint for intelligence spending includes a mysterious and expensive spy program that drew extraordinary criticism from leading Democrats, with one saying the highly classified project is a threat to national security."
As you see there is always money for mysterious programs that probably only benefit the war industry. Again Bush has something to hide.
11:30:56 AM
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Independent: "They are a billion strong. Diseased, malnourished, uneducated, they are a people on the run from wars that take the lives of their brothers and sisters. And they are all children - half the children on earth today."
And George W. Bush is going to add a few more millions to the army of children stricken by poverty in his own country.
NY Times: "President Bush flatly rejected today the possibility of raising payroll taxes to pay for an overhaul of Social Security, a project that is likely to cost trillions of dollars over the next several decades."
11:27:18 AM
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