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good news indeed...1st odf all, chicago suxs.....2nd of all, the city of chicago suxs...

and yes, i am from illinois

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good news indeed...1st odf all, chicago suxs.....2nd of all, the city of chicago suxs...

and yes, i am from illinois

At least you see the light.

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest American households earned a total of $US138 billion, up from $US105 billion a year earlier. That's an average of $US345 million each, on which they paid a tax rate of just 16.6 per cent.

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w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r   123

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Good. Hosting the Olympics is a waste of money.

Agreed. Gotta build a bunch of infrastructure just for the occasion, tons of dough on security and lipstick. All for what, to bring in a few extra tourists. Phooey!

Yup.

Leave the Olympics to nations that can afford it. America can not.

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Good. Hosting the Olympics is a waste of money.

Agreed. Gotta build a bunch of infrastructure just for the occasion, tons of dough on security and lipstick. All for what, to bring in a few extra tourists. Phooey!

Yup.

Leave the Olympics to nations that can afford it. America can not.

That is why they should have, by default, just hosted it in Melbourne, AUS. The city already has the infrastructure from the 2006 commonwealth games. Plus Aus is not really hurting in the wallet. Resources are not an issue as they simply drive a few thousand miles and extract them.

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According to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest American households earned a total of $US138 billion, up from $US105 billion a year earlier. That's an average of $US345 million each, on which they paid a tax rate of just 16.6 per cent.

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Why can't they host in Cambodia?

Cambodia's Nominal GDP per capita is $823. This has to be a mistake.

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest American households earned a total of $US138 billion, up from $US105 billion a year earlier. That's an average of $US345 million each, on which they paid a tax rate of just 16.6 per cent.

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Too bad Michelle and Barack Obama and Oprah all made that "sacrifice" all in vain. :rofl:

Oh how they suffered. :rolleyes:

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Why can't they host in Cambodia?

Cambodia's Nominal GDP per capita is $823. This has to be a mistake.

Nope. Not a mistake. :rofl:

Dude that's not funny. I always wondered why Cambodians never really migrated to Aus but now I know. They are extremely poor.

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Good. Hosting the Olympics is a waste of money.

This says it all:

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<h1 class="entry-title">Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid falls to anti-Americanism</h1> userpic-1137-100x100.png Dennis Byrne on 10.02.09 | no comments tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; tweetmeme_source = 'chicagonow'; tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/dennis-byrne-barbershop/2009/10/chicagos-2016-olympic-bid-falls-to-anti-americanism.html'; | So, Chicagoans and Americans, what do you think of world opinion now?

After pandering to world opinion, America got the shive from the bozos voting at the International Olympic Committee. President Barack Obama, who was thought to bring in a new day of more congenial international relations after former President George W. Bush and who deployed his personal charisma into the competition, was given the back of the hand by the internationalists who run the Olympics.

I wouldn't argue that Chicago made the best presentation, but it had its good points. No other city in the competition has the kind of diversity that Chicago does, reflecting the global fellowship that the Olympics is supposed to represent. It also had its bad points, including the kind of iffy financing that the greedy IOC wouldn't favor.

Of course, some will blame Bush and the "last eight years" for the negativity that enshrouds America in the court of global opinion. Not that anyone should be grateful for America freeing Iraq of a tyrant and, for example, fighting the Taliban whose persecution of women is breath-taking. Or for leading the fight to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Of for hundreds of billions of private and public aid dollars have flowed from America to the rest of the world.

So, if anything, this vote could be interpreted as an argument for increased isolation on the part of Americans. It will generate a lot of "screw-yous" across America when this country is asked to come to someone's rescue. When Africa insists that America do more to end the AIDS epidemic there, or to end the ethnic slaughter in Darfur, the temptation would be to respond to the plea with a "screw you, do it yourself."

That, of course wouldn't be right. America is freedom's beacon, proof of the workability of democracy and capitalism. Whatever the vote of the 100 clowns in Copenhagen, America will remain that, and it would be beneath us to respond to this rejection in kind. We'll shake it off and continue to do what we do best--continue to be a living example of blessings of liberty. Even if the rest of the world has its head up its ####."

From http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/dennis-byr...mericanism.html

I go along with screw you, the rest of the world, except for bringing the very best of the wonderful women of the world, here.

 

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