Extravagance: Are we sending the wrong message?
January 20, 2009
Today is a moment in history and I don’t want to take away from the moment. I want to be hopeful in what it means. That we have reached a point in this country where you are simply judge based on your character and not external factors that no one can control. I am hopeful but feel in the next 100 days that those hopes will be dashed after the confetti is cleaned up and people try to get home on a train.
However with millions of people missing work and 1.6 million dollars spent on the inaugration day alone and while millions of people are fighting to keep their jobs or look for new jobs, I wonder if this extravagance is sending the wrong message. Maybe with change we should be starting new traditions of saving and less pomp and circumstance.
Not that this day should not be celebrated, it certainly should. Couldn’t this 1.6 million dollars be put to a better use than just a party?
