NarrowBandFtw
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It is actually. They want to be re-elected, they need to gauge popular opinion and act accordingly. Odds are the majority of voters looked favourably upon that "stunt" even if they take into account the cost of it.Yeah it's much better for them to stage obscenely expensive publicity stunts on the taxpayer's dollar.
A couple of hundred K is chump change in a country sitting with over 20 trillion dollars in debt anyway, wouldn't even pay the interest for a few days ...