Michael Jackson Memorial is Making Me MAD!

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Permalink Reply by Sandy on July 7, 2009 at 4:14pm

I agree with you one hundred percent. They were talking about how much LA is having to pay for everything and it's outrageous. I understand that people want to mourn his death but it the memorial was a little extreme.

I have had a few rough months because of these IOUs that the state is sending out and it bothers me that while so many people and programs get put on hold other things (such as a lavish memorial & everything that has to go along with it) gets paid for.

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Permalink Reply by Kimberly Sepulveda on July 8, 2009 at 8:44am

Wait, I was fine with it (although I think it is over-the -top as well) when I thought his family was paying for it, but are you saying our tax dollars are paying for this? I loved his music as well, but seriously, that was a long time ago. He is just another person, the only thing I am worried about when people die is if they go to heaven or not, not how we are going to make their last celebration all crazy. Everybody will forget about it soon enough anyways.

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Permalink Reply by Kimberly Sepulveda on July 8, 2009 at 8:47am

I am sorry they are making people like you suffer so they can splurge on a dead person before they set him into the ground.

Sandy said:

I agree with you one hundred percent. They were talking about how much LA is having to pay for everything and it's outrageous. I understand that people want to mourn his death but it the memorial was a little extreme.

I have had a few rough months because of these IOUs that the state is sending out and it bothers me that while so many people and programs get put on hold other things (such as a lavish memorial & everything that has to go along with it) gets paid for.

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Permalink Reply by Ms. Monica on July 8, 2009 at 5:55pm

I think this whole things is getting way to much coverage. Although I always figured that when this man died he would get this much coverage. So it didn't come as a surprise to me. The thing that people need to realize is that 'the wages sin pays is death' so no matter what bad things he did while he was alive they are erased because his death paid for all the bad things that he did or might have done. So we just need to let this whole thing R.I.P and move on to more important news.

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Permalink Reply by Ms. Monica on July 8, 2009 at 5:59pm

Here is an article about what cost the city of Los Angeles wants taxpayers to help pay. They said that they had to uses about 3,000 officers to help with crowd and traffic control and paid for lunch for them also. So they are asking fans to donate money to help pay for the salaries of the officers who were assigned to work the memorial.

http://tinyurl.com/kqdgf7

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Permalink Reply by VHgroupie on July 9, 2009 at 3:36pm

I'm also tired of all the coverage of his death. He was a gifted performer, but also a weirdo.

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Permalink Reply by Sandy on July 9, 2009 at 5:06pm

I think they should have figured out how to pay for it BEFORE doing the memorial.

Ms. Monica said:

Here is an article about what cost the city of Los Angeles wants taxpayers to help pay. They said that they had to uses about 3,000 officers to help with crowd and traffic control and paid for lunch for them also. So they are asking fans to donate money to help pay for the salaries of the officers who were assigned to work the memorial.

http://tinyurl.com/kqdgf7

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