- ....organizers had arranged a saxophone concert with Bill's buddy Ronnie Hawkins as part of the event
- Marni Soupcoff: Why are taxpayers funding a Bill Clinton speech no one wants to go to?
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The original sad story: A portion of a $3-million “tourism stimulus” grant from Ottawa was used to partially finance a Bill Clinton speech at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. The even sadder update: No one’s coming. All right, that’s an exaggeration. Some people are coming. The organizers have sold about 7,000 advance tickets for the event, and a handful others may be sold at the door to impulse buyers already visiting the Ex. (“Honey, it just occurred to me — you know what would make this funnel cake taste even better? A Bill Clinton speech.”) But the organizers originally expected to sell more like 25,000 tickets, and have now had to scramble to change the layout of the venue to make the anticipated small crowd look... well, less small.
And that would be perfectly fine if this were a completely private venture financed by anyone but government. But with the addition of the feds’ stimulus money, the speech becomes a huge billboard advertisement for why such “stimulus” is a joke (not in the “ha ha” sense, but rather in the complete waste sense).
1 comment:
swap Bush in for Clinton here, and this wouldn't have even appeared on your blog.
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