Why does the inagural dinner cost $100,000 per person?

If Bush is not able to run for office again, what is the purpose of them charging $100,000 per person to attend the inaugural dinner?
What's the money going to be used for? Armor for the humvees?

They're gonna dig a pit and roast a hawg on the Mall.

Yeehaw.

Perhaps each attendee gets to spend 30 seconds in the Presidential Knee Pads sucking Chimp's worm.

so they're pumping up the price in anticipation. Damn sticky-fingered republicans.

"tax breaks" and the refund of the "alternative minimum tax" paid over more than a decade . . .

Didn't he already have one of those?

him King.

It's the old price of everything, value of nothing" routine. His supporters are especially susceptible.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/10/politics/10inaugural.html?hp&ex=1102741200&en=6afdb238c4ca49db&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Tickets to all official inaugural events, including an "elegant" candlelight dinner with a special appearance by President Bush: $100,000.

Tickets to all official inaugural events, two additional tickets to an "exclusive" lunch with Mr. Bush and Vice President Cheney, plus an all-access pass to any inaugural ball: $250,000.

Telling your friends, "As I explained to the president just the other day... .": priceless.

Mr. Bush's inaugural committee, seeking to raise more than $40 million, a record, sent out hundreds of solicitations to the president's biggest campaign contributors this week offering packages of party benefits and access to the president in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Even at a time of war when more than 138,000 American troops are serving in Iraq, the organizers say that the inaugural celebration at the end of the January will not be marked by any noticeable restraint and will cost more than any other in history.

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so can't afford body armor for the troops but can afford a big old party for the prez and his rich buddies...okay got it..

:shrug: :bounce:

The Bush cabal caters to them to get their votes, but I'm sure they don't want to actually socialize with anyone worth less than $10 million.

O'Reilly? Limbaugh? Hannity? Brian Williams? Katie and Matt?

I'm sure they will all be there all "dolled up."

will sit around and joke about how poor the rest of the country is...