The real reason why it costs so much more? Surprise! It..err...doesn't actually cost much more. Probably just inflation really.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200901170003?f=h_top Turns out that it is a wonderful media case of apples vs oranges. The numbers being cited for Bush are about 42 million and for Obama as being about 160 million. Except for the fact that Bush's numbers don't include security costs and the numbers quoted for Obama do. The cost for Obama's inauguration without security (to enable a direct comparison with Bush's second inauguration)? 45 million. Still a pretty chunk of change of course and I'd rather like to see that number be much much smaller. But I can't get too worked up in a lather about a 7% cost increase in 4 years. Which is probably why our friends at Fox and Drudge go for $160 million instead. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285424 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
