nogameschicago.com presents The Five Olympic Myths.
Myth 1 is that it will boost our local economy. The only peope who will make money is the IOC, contractors, and insiders. The people will get s...
nogameschicago.com presents The Five Olympic Myths.
Myth 1 is that it will boost our local economy. The only peope who will make money is the IOC, contractors, and insiders. The people will get stuck with the bill. City after city the Olympics go over budget and with our track record there is a good probability that we would go over budget too. For example Millennium Park went over double the budget from $150 million to a final total of $475 million and the Dan Ryan's budget was $550 million and the final cost was $975 million. Now image a project the size of the Olympics.
Visit nogameschicago.com if you want to fight the Olympic committee choosing for 2016. Also, join us on April 2nd 2009 in Federal Plaza for a mass demonstration while the IOC is in town.
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Are you serious the most balanced economy?? We are over 250 million in debt. We are in debt almost every year. Including last year in which we had a HUGE TAX HIKE that put us in the #1 spot in sales tax. Also a tax hike on everything down to bottled water.
I highly doubt we are the most balanced economy in the nation. WOW if we are the most balanced economy this country is in major trouble.
Number one: Barack Obama was elected by MAJORITY of people. If you do not accept nation's decisions then you are NOT part of this nation. Since when minority gets to dictate to majority? Bush was good president huh? Bush destroyed everything he could. How could you pull out of Iraq now when a lot of terrorists will gladly take control over land full of oil! You can not just leave, it was better not to get there is first place
For God's sake, you people in Chicago should have used the Olympics to upgrade your infrastructure, like Barcelona did -- it's an invesment. That cattle car that you call public transportation is an embarrasment. I'd be ashamed to put anyone on the train from O'Hare to downtown. You are not a world class city, you just lost your chance to possibly become one.
I can totally side with you, rubicxicur. I am a current resident in Chicago and I'm pretty fucking glad that we didn't win the Olympic bid in the first fucking place. I knew it all along that if we won that bid, all it was is that it will bring absolute trouble to the city. Hell, Chicago is already in the red zone. Along with that, when you come to think about it: every other major city around the world has venues set up, while Chicago didn't.
It's bad enough that Chicago has spent WAY TOO MUCH money into trying to tear down Michael Reese Hospital to try to build an Olympic village there. Along with that, they wanted to build a "temporary stadium" in Washington Park (in which it is in a predominantly African-American community) to have it ready in 2016, and then tear it back down once the Olympics were finished. That's excessive taxing up our asses (esp. to the residents who lives around Wash. Park).
Plus, what the fuck ever happened to stuff like creating more jobs in the city, improving public transit, fixing up the fucked-up public school system? Chicago, let alone, ILLINOIS, is a place where it's more people playing politics than to fix the city up. Thank fucking God, Chicago did not win...and why? Because main emphasis was all about Mayor Daley's political gain! I can't wait for Daley's dethronement. It's time for a REAL change!
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I highly doubt we are the most balanced economy in the nation. WOW if we are the most balanced economy this country is in major trouble.
It's bad enough that Chicago has spent WAY TOO MUCH money into trying to tear down Michael Reese Hospital to try to build an Olympic village there. Along with that, they wanted to build a "temporary stadium" in Washington Park (in which it is in a predominantly African-American community) to have it ready in 2016, and then tear it back down once the Olympics were finished. That's excessive taxing up our asses (esp. to the residents who lives around Wash. Park).
Plus, what the fuck ever happened to stuff like creating more jobs in the city, improving public transit, fixing up the fucked-up public school system? Chicago, let alone, ILLINOIS, is a place where it's more people playing politics than to fix the city up. Thank fucking God, Chicago did not win...and why? Because main emphasis was all about Mayor Daley's political gain! I can't wait for Daley's dethronement. It's time for a REAL change!
-kidThunder