reply to post by redhatty
Good work, RedHatty! You've put yet another biased liberal in their place with your mad research skillz.
One thing to add about the difference between the 2005 and 2009 inaugural celebrations - in 2005 the country wasn't in the economical dire straits
that it is now. For example:
* Fortune 500 companies hadn't filed for bankruptcy
* the jobless rate wasn't near double digits
* the strength of the dollar wasn't constantly chipped away by mutliple interest rate cuts
* you didn't read every day about yet another mega-company laying off 10,000+ employees
* you didn't entertain the idea of DEMOCRATS passing legislation to LOWER taxes
* the big three auto makers weren't on the edge of bankruptcy
* there was no such thing as a bill to give away $825 billion to banks with no strings attached
* California wasn't looking to pay its state income tax refunds with IOUs to taxpayers
* Individual states weren't going bankrupt
* There was no need for a "stimulus package"
And of course there's a lot more. But the differences are clear. In today's economy the government gave the big three a very hard time about lending
them bailout money, criticizing them on being wasteful because the economic times are so bad. So what's the difference between the Big 3 being
wasteful and the government doing it - the cost? $150 million is still a hell of a lot of money!