Inauguration

I'm disappointed in President Obama and his organizations plans for his second inaugural.

I can understand the pomp and ceremony for his first inaugural celebration, but not the extravagant plans for his second. His finance team is offering corporations and other institutions some major goodies if they contribute a million bucks to help play for the festivities.

These financial arrangements are different from his policy in 2009.

The donors get special tickets to a concert, some bleacher seats at the parade and tickets to the inaugural ball.

Keep in mind that we taxpayers only pay for events at the Capitol, the inaugural luncheon and the swearing-in-ceremony. It's up to the President to raise the rest of the money for whatever celebrations he deems appropriate.

In 2009 Mr. Obama raised 53-million dollars for the celebrations. I don't know what the 2013 costs will be, but it can't be cheap.

Here's my beef.

Why not abandon the gift pomp and ceremony and encourage those who want to celebrate in a monetary way to donate their largess to the victims of Hurricane Sandy. The two party campaigns already spent collectively on the elections two billion dollars. That's obscene and wrong.

America's leadership needs to set an example of frugality not frivolous spending on parties and parades.