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Rio, while blessed with natural beauty, and sweet spirited people is also a city that is devastated by abject poverty, where over 70% of it's population live in abject poverty and utter squalor. The shanty towns in the hills over looking the city are rife with drugs, not to mention a lack of running water and electricity.
Instead of spending 3 billion dollars on bringing the Olympics to Rio, why isn't the government using that money to help it's own people?
Perhaps this is just the thing they may need. No one knows how it will turn out. Why not keep a positive attitude?
Rio, while blessed with natural beauty, and sweet spirited people is also a city that is devastated by abject poverty, where over 70% of it's population live in abject poverty and utter squalor. The shanty towns in the hills over looking the city are rife with drugs, not to mention a lack of running water and electricity.
Instead of spending 3 billion dollars on bringing the Olympics to Rio, why isn't the government using that money to help it's own people?
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not to mention it's corrupt police force ... I have no doubt that Rio will be a stunning backdrop and the athletes will be safe, but spectators beware! Kidnapping is a way of life.
Have you been to Chicago lately? Not much better then Rio Baghdad would have been safer!!!
I don;t know how many times I have said this but it was because of Bush's actions that Republicans lost the last elections! Why don't you lefties get it? Many of us that vote Republican believed they needed to be taught a lesson, so many did not go to the polls. Boy what a mistake we made! I wholeheartedly blame Bush for hussein obama!
We get it. You hate Obama. Only conservatives have good ideas, blah blah blah. It's really the only thing you have ever said in any post I have ever read of yours.
floridasandy, he's now been in office about 9 months. I think most who looked at his presidency with a rational eye weren't expecting miracles in that time-frame.
The Credit Card Reform Bill is going to help a lot of people though and you conveniently left that out.
i don't see that as much in the way of actual real reform. it doesn't cap rate increases at all. you might want to read this article:
Under the new law, issuers can't raise them without 45 days' notice. But there's a loophole: The rules don't apply to variable-rate cards, with rates that float up and down. That's why companies are moving more consumers into such cards, whose rates are likely to soar from their record lows.
If Obama sends more troops, and they die still not having made a dent in this war, who do you blame next ? He's damned if he does, or doesn't send them in the eyes of those who hate him, all around. I am against sending more troops, and so are a lot of other people. Of course certain generals want to keep the war going. The ones who criticise the war are often called "unpatriotic cowards, or Misinformed."
That is not the case at all with me. IMO, either he listens to his top generals on what is needed to give our troops the best chance to win, or bring them home. Although I'm not crazy about bringing the troops home, I'm even less crazy about half assing a war. I would respect Obama more for bringing the troops home than I would for not giving them what they need to be successful. If we bring the troops home, Afghanistan becomes a breeding ground for Al Qaeda. The money we would save by ending the war would need to be poured into securing our borders (something that has been overlooked by Dems and Reps for WAY too long), and increasing the amount of funding to the FBI and CIA for discovering and disrupting terrorist plots that we know will be hatched regularly.
Has this been posted? Either way, Joe Scarborough sets the tone for the rest of us to follow on this one.
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The President was right to fly to Copenhagen to try to land the games, not for the sake of his city, but for the good of his country. The fact President Obama failed makes me respect him more for taking the chance, and the fact many right-wing figures opposed the President's mission shows just how narrow-minded partisanship makes us all.
Apparently Obama carried no weight in the decision either......we lost.
Well, I take that back, he did carry a good deal of weight.....he carried Michelle......talk about pounds!
I'm pretty sure you don't know too much about body weight, do you? You do know that an extremely fit person will weigh more than another due to.....muscle? LOL, oh dear, you actually think Michelle is fat. HAHAHAHA, now THAT is hysterical.
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Baghdad would have been safer!!!
