This is wrong on so many different levels; a public space, on a public holiday, with taxpayer-funded city services - all placed at the disposal of the democrat party machine. And before the obamapologists claim corporate underwriting - will Budweiser also sponsor the Secret Service sniper teams and the road closures for motorcades on a holiday weekend?

With talk of increasing property taxes yet again and the problems the school district is having, the mayor doesn't see a problem with using taxpayer money for this event? They've already spent, according to news reports, $1 million when Occupy was here. I would rather see tax dollars going towards thing like police, firefighters and keeping libraries open than this nonsense.

As far as I can tell, the question isn't about whether you are OK with your tax dollars paying for the event. It's whether you'd be willing to buy a $99 ticket for the event. I'll pass.

I think a Springsteen/Jay-Z lineup would be interesting, though. The festival will be called "Made in America" and you'll have the Boss singing about being a working man and trying to survive in good spirits, and then you have Jay-Z saying eff this and eff that and I'm rich and look at my tacky clothes and promiscuous hangers-on, we're all riding the gravy train. Two popular versions of the American Dream.