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AN OBSCENE COST FOR A PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL.(Editorial)(Editorial)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 19961230
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At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, ``Let them eat cake.'' - Jean Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher.

Marie Antoinette, the self-absorbed consort of Louis XVI, would be right at home these days in the other Washington, which is preoccupied with staging a presidential inaugural that will saddle the taxpayers with a tab 27 percent higher than they paid four years ago.

While in Olympia state officials are pleading with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to continue ...

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