America: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Part II
Please see the previous entry first...
While I lived in Raleigh, North Carolina back in 88-89, and I worked with a fellow who was part of the Republican delegation that went to the Bush/Quayle inauguration in 1989. He partnered up with a friend of his and they decided the would defray traveling expenses by making hundreds of buttons of the new president & vice president and selling them during events.
The buttons were sold for $5.00 a piece or 5 for $20.00. Most people found it easier to spend $20.00 at a time (the story goes). They dodged the D.C. police and the Secret Service all day. By the end of it all, he said that their pockets were so full of cash (mostly $20's mind you) that they simply couldn't stuff anymore money into their pockets.
Back at their room that was $300 a night, they got ready for one of the Presidential inaugural balls. Tuxes on and downstairs in front of the hotel waiting for a cab, a Senator in a limo asked them if they'd like a lift. They took the ride (saving the cab fare) and arrived at the gala event.
The alcohol flowed under crystal chandeliers and above marble floors. Drunk wives of congressmen danced and flirted without shame. As the band played on, my co-worker saw a pretty female at the bar-all alone.
He was not an attractive man by any means. But he knew his looks would not be an issue with this one. He asked her, "Can I buy you a beer?" She accepted. He asked, "What else can I buy?"
Evidently she was working her way through college. Sad.
So, this fellow and his commercial company went with his buddy and his "date" back to the hotel. The attention that the men were lavished with that night cost them $300 per woman. His face was still flushed with shock as he described to me how beautiful she was.
I asked him, "So, what you're telling me is this: you used money from selling pictures of our new president and vice president to buy liquor and prostitutes at an Inaugural Ball ? Now that's America!"
While I lived in Raleigh, North Carolina back in 88-89, and I worked with a fellow who was part of the Republican delegation that went to the Bush/Quayle inauguration in 1989. He partnered up with a friend of his and they decided the would defray traveling expenses by making hundreds of buttons of the new president & vice president and selling them during events.
The buttons were sold for $5.00 a piece or 5 for $20.00. Most people found it easier to spend $20.00 at a time (the story goes). They dodged the D.C. police and the Secret Service all day. By the end of it all, he said that their pockets were so full of cash (mostly $20's mind you) that they simply couldn't stuff anymore money into their pockets.
Back at their room that was $300 a night, they got ready for one of the Presidential inaugural balls. Tuxes on and downstairs in front of the hotel waiting for a cab, a Senator in a limo asked them if they'd like a lift. They took the ride (saving the cab fare) and arrived at the gala event.
The alcohol flowed under crystal chandeliers and above marble floors. Drunk wives of congressmen danced and flirted without shame. As the band played on, my co-worker saw a pretty female at the bar-all alone.
He was not an attractive man by any means. But he knew his looks would not be an issue with this one. He asked her, "Can I buy you a beer?" She accepted. He asked, "What else can I buy?"
Evidently she was working her way through college. Sad.
So, this fellow and his commercial company went with his buddy and his "date" back to the hotel. The attention that the men were lavished with that night cost them $300 per woman. His face was still flushed with shock as he described to me how beautiful she was.
I asked him, "So, what you're telling me is this: you used money from selling pictures of our new president and vice president to buy liquor and prostitutes at an Inaugural Ball ? Now that's America!"
posted by Cool Water William @ 2:07 PM
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