I certainly had to laugh when I read the news today that Chicago has beaten out San Francisco and L.A. for the privilege of being the US candidate for the 2016 Olympics when they will go head to head with Tokyo, Rome, Tel Aviv and others for the wonderful opportunity to land their citizens with enough debt to sink a battleship. What is it with these people? Just reading the horror stories already coming out of London, where the bill for their hosting of the 2012 carnival has gone from a few billion pounds to a few trillion… And there’s still got five years to go. I expect by that time Tony Blair, who was one of the prime movies in the frenzied efforts to land this prize, will have made enough loot from the International speaking circuit and his inevitable directorship of the Carlisle group, that he could probably pay for it all by himself. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be a common trait amongst most retired politicians.
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The Greeks will still be paying for this after the 2016 games are history!
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