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Is the Inaguration worth $50,000 a ticket

Is 50k too much to spend on a ticket

  • Yes

    Votes: 11 55.0%

  • No

    Votes: 9 45.0%
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sentirpromesas

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It's supposed to be free!

Personally, I think it cheapens the inauguration (a very historical one) to a Madonna concert.

It saddens me because instead of Everyday Americans attending the ceremony, it will be cluttered by the Rich and Famous
 
sentirpromesas said:
It's supposed to be free!

Personally, I think it cheapens the inauguration (a very historical one) to a Madonna concert.

It saddens me because instead of Everyday Americans attending the ceremony, it will be cluttered by the Rich and Famous
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Agreed. Those tickets should go to the average person instead of making it a red carpet event so celebrities can show of their expensive new clothes and hair styles so they can smile into the camera to promote their next big cinematic achievement. It does cheapen it. But, alas, the average American will be sitting at home depressed by the next onslaught of economic crisis while watching Halle Berry and Sharon Stone show of their $10,000 shoes and laughing that the price of the ticket could have bought four more. I would love to be there, but I have to work my ass off to make .000001% of what they paid for that ticket.
 
I think it is good that they are using that money to pay for the event


so WE can pay less


and that some of the things they are buying with that money it's for things that will make the event accessible to the general public

like large screens and such
 
It's a crying sin to spend so much money on anything other than a house. There are too many hungry and homeless people that could put that money to much better use.
 
sentirpromesas said:
It's supposed to be free!

Personally, I think it cheapens the inauguration (a very historical one) to a Madonna concert.

It saddens me because instead of Everyday Americans attending the ceremony, it will be cluttered by the Rich and Famous
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It goes to the inaguration fund which plans on buying jumbo screens and speakers so that regular people in DC can see it for free.
 
BlackWolf said:
It goes to the inaguration fund which plans on buying jumbo screens and speakers so that regular people in DC can see it for free.
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are you sure? I was informed that the inaguration by law must be free and tickets could only be procured by your congressperson
 
They attend, and then go to other events


there are a few Inauguration Balls and other parties...

so they get to choose



People can go to the inauguration for free, but then the other stuff is not free
 
sentirpromesas said:
are you sure? I was informed that the inaguration by law must be free and tickets could only be procured by your congressperson
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The tickets are for private events not the inaguration.

The inaguration committee charges money so they can afford to put on the inaguration etc. Such as buying jumbo trons for people a million deep in the back.

Although, I am sure the ticket buyers do get prime locations during the actual inaguration.
 
From what I remember of the news report earlier.

People who buy the tickets, get four tickets for friends, some other shit, and their choice of which inaguration ball they want to go to.
 
BlackWolf said:
The tickets are for private events not the inaguration.

The inaguration committee charges money so they can afford to put on the inaguration etc. Such as buying jumbo trons for people a million deep in the back.

Although, I am sure the ticket buyers do get prime locations during the actual inaguration.
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I dunno, it still sounds a bit wrong to me. To be fair, I'd say people could buy tickets to the balls but that those purchases would not include the inauguration. In order to get tickets, one would have to obtain them just like everyone else.
 
sentirpromesas said:
I dunno, it still sounds a bit wrong to me. To be fair, I'd say people could buy tickets to the balls but that those purchases would not include the inauguration. In order to get tickets, one would have to obtain them just like everyone else.
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Well if they did that, then they could barely put on the inaguration itself. The whole point of charging those prices is to pay for the inaguration. I don't think they actually get a government budget for such a thing.

I mean, is it necessary to have a public inaguration? It is easily done in the oval office in private for a few hundred to pay the priest.

Thats my thinking on it at least.
 
BlackWolf said:
Well if they did that, then they could barely put on the inaguration itself. The whole point of charging those prices is to pay for the inaguration. I don't think they actually get a government budget for such a thing.

I mean, is it necessary to have a public inaguration? It is easily done in the oval office in private for a few hundred to pay the priest.

Thats my thinking on it at least.
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Well, usually the US government covers part of the bill, while DC pays the rest (since it receives higher tourism)
 
thats just foolish... just because you have the money, does not mean you have to spend it.
 
sentirpromesas said:
Well, usually the US government covers part of the bill, while DC pays the rest (since it receives higher tourism)
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The District of Columbia government does not pay any amount of money to the Inauguration Committee. Even the extra cost of overtime pay for the DC police force and the DC fire department is paid to the District of Columbia by the federal government.

The federal government (the taxpayers) pays for the public events on January 20th but not the evening events which are covered by the Democratic National Committee through corporate and private donations. The list of donors (cynics refer to this as legal Influence Peddling) is made available to the public after January 20th but no one pays much attention since this is business as usual every four years.
 
sentirpromesas said:
I dunno, it still sounds a bit wrong to me. To be fair, I'd say people could buy tickets to the balls but that those purchases would not include the inauguration. In order to get tickets, one would have to obtain them just like everyone else.
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FYI: The tickets to the swearing-in ceremony are free and can only be obtained from the office of a member of either the US House of Representatives or the US Senate. The number of tickets printed are 240,000; 40,000 are seats and 200,000 are in designated standing room areas on the west front of The Capitol.

No member of Congress will receive his or her allotted tickets (distributed on an equal basis) until one week before January 20th to avoid scalping the tickets. Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) has proposed that the illegal scalping of tickets (on eBay, for example) for the swearing-in ceremony be a punishable offense though I don't know if that was passed in either the House or the Senate.
 
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