Good use of money? Obama's inauguration set to be the most expensive in US history

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Good use of money? Obama's inauguration set to be the most expensive in US history

14 January 2009, 18:06

The $150m (£102m) cost of the celebration will dwarf the amount spent on George Bush's inauguration in 2005

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...uguration-cost

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14 January 2009, 18:10

That's inflation for you!

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14 January 2009, 20:56

Prehaps the banks can lend them the difference?

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14 January 2009, 21:44

You have to find ways to celebrate even in the midst of doom and gloom. If everything always came down to budgeting we wouldn't have most of the cool things man has made... one of the few things Clarkson says I agree with.

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