The Royal Wedding

the wedding cake: $16,000-$80,000 cleaning of the streets after the wedding in london: $64,000 the flowers: $320,000-$800,000 pre-wedding hideaway (the goring hotel hosting middleton’s family & friends): $552 a night for double rooms middleton’s wedding dress: $64,000-$434,000 the engagement ring: valued at $136,000, given to w. by c. security: $8-$32 million $32,000,000 $800,000 $434,000 $136,000 $80,000 + $64,000___ $33,514,000 *this estimated cost does not factor in the unspecified amount of time that middleton’s family & friends will be staying for $552 a night, or how many of them, etc. although i’m sure that anyone with a pulse, a half-way decently functioning brain, and a heartbeat could look at the figure posited above and find thousands of ways to invest in any number of much much much more worthy causes than that of perpetuating an incestuous line of figureheads that holds absolutely no relevance whatsoever in the 21st century but in the united states the home of the world’s policeman 10 days ago our blessed democratic congress “the voice of the people” cut $26.6 million dollars from TRIO: LINK: http://www.coenet.us/ecm/AM/Template.cfm?Section=GRA_March_April_2011 for those that aren’t aware what TRIO is: “TRIO is a set of federally-funded college opportunity programs that motivate and support students from disadvantaged backgrounds in their pursuit of a college degree. Over 850,000 low-income, first-generation students and students with disabilities — from sixth grade through college graduation — are served by more than 2,800 programs nationally. TRIO programs provide academic tutoring, personal counseling, mentoring, financial guidance, and other supports necessary for educational access and retention. TRIO programs provide direct support services for students, and relevant training for directors and staff.” LINK: http://www.coenet.us/ecm/AM/Template.cfm?Section=What_is_TRIO&Template=/... happy are those that are not english citizens as the taxpayers are said to be footing the bill of $8-$32 million for security, and $64,000 for street cleaning after said extravaganza one has to do their best to keep from running amok the day this thing happens because of what we could really be doing with the wealth in this world