Colbert Campus

As we’ve all seen repeatedly, the President-elect has been officially sworn in as our 44th President. So what was first on the agenda? Pulling away from anything related to the Bush Administration, shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention center, and stopping ‘torture techniques’ on criminals of war. That’s all well and good but what about spending between $150-170 million dollars on an Inauguration ceremony? How do we as American’s swallow something like that from a President that has promised to get us out of this nasty recession?

We currently are in a recession SO bad that it teeters on the edge of being just as bad as the Great Depression. With big companies going out of business, other companies laying people off right and left and Mexicans hopping back across the border because it’s so bad here, why in the name of all that is holy, is the President and his wife spending $150-170 million dollars on Inauguration festivities??? Even ‘W’ only spent $43 mill on his Inauguration! All you need is security so you don’t get assassinated on your first day on the job and a boatload of Port-A-Potties. There you go! Do you really need a big ‘A’ ball as well as party after party after party? Really? Oh my gosh, are you serious? That’s like when AIG accepted their billion-dollar ‘bail out’ and celebrated by treating their employees to a retreat! It’s like when you get your driver’s license and immediately wreck your parents’ car.

I guess things could be worse…We could have seen the monstrosities that Sarah Palin would have found should she have been made the Vice President. $180 thousand dollar shopping spree anyone? Sorry Joe, I’m sure you’ve been laid off of your plumber job by now, but that’s ok, Sarah-Poo needed dresses.

I’m very close to seeing what the wonderful world of Canada has to offer.