We all know that Angeleians are crazy. It's a given. We all know that they are out-of-control conspicuous consumers too, but this take the f*cking cake.
The estimated total cost to the taxpayers in Los Angeles, who by the way did not get to choose whether or not to throw this fiasco, ranges from just under $1.5 million to over $5 million.
For what exactly?
Well the LAPD logged in over $1.4 million in overtime, the cost of porta-potties and clean up is estimated at over $500,000 and it goes on and on.
Am I crazy or haven't I been reading and hearing about a $500+ million budget deficit in Los Angeles and California is completely bankrupt (fiscally and otherwise)?
Now as ridiculous and over the top as this all sounds, it still need some perceptive. What could have LA done with $5,000,000.00?
1) LA area schools could have hired an additional 125 teachers and paid them at the upper end of their scale for a year.
2) LAPD could have hired an additional 80 officers (not that this would be necessarily a good thing)
3) The estimated 85,000 homeless people in the LA area could have all had 3 meals.
4) Each of the estimated 35,000 children in LA that have no health care coverage could have seen a doctor and a dentist.
5) 80 Habitat for Humanity homes could have been built.
I know this list sounds a little liberal and charity-oriented, but when you are going to piss money away, you have to consider what that money could have done.
Then again, in a city where it's normal to pay 30% credit card interest on a $300 pair of jeans that they wear once or buy $500,000 cars that they only drive 1000 miles a year, I doubt anyone thought about the cost of Jacko's memorial.
Don't even get me started on why he should have been memorialized in the first place!
The Chief
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