Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:pur-phy!act From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: From Handgun control to Showy Inaugurations: An Informal Net Survey Message-ID: <1600@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 23:40:16 EST Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1600 Posted: Sat Jan 19 23:40:16 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 05:42:31 EST References: <307@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <54@osu-eddie.UUCP> <574@tty3b.UUCP> Reply-To: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis) Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN Lines: 9 Summary: > >---------- > >> How many people think that showy inaugurations, costing taxpayers > >> literally millions of dollars, are in poor taste? > >---------- I tend to agree. For all the hassles that we'll be put through in the next few years in cleaning up the deficit, the least they could do is make some gesture to sharing the pain, and having a somewhat lower key celebration. President Reagan will still be as much of a president whether the inauguration is big or small.