President and Mrs. Obama plan to wing their way to Copenhagen in hopes of convincing the International Olympic Committee to bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to the corrupt city of Al Capone – Chicago. They won’t be the only Chicagoans in attendance. A group calling itself “No Games Chicago” is opposing the president and first lady’s pitch. “Our goal,” says the organization’s website, “remains the same – to convince the International Olympic Committee that the 2016 Olympics for Chicago is the wrong project for the wrong city at the wrong time.” Their worries are well founded. The City of Montreal, Canada, only recently paid off the tremendous debt it incurred for hosting the 1976 Olympic Games. London, which hosts the 2012 summer games, is already $9 billion over budget. Rather than serving as an economic boon, the Olympic Games are a bust for the host city’s taxpayers who must pay the tab and clean up the mess.
In an open letter to the president, “No Games Chicago” pleaded:
Chicago is broke. We cannot afford to fix potholes, to repair sewers, to upgrade public transportation, to bring our schools up to standard, or to keep mental health clinics open.
… Olympic Games held in Chicago would disrupt and even displace communities in the very city where you worked as a community organizer. The grassroots that supported your election are the very people who would be most hurt by this effort, while the benefits will go to the developers and politically connected.
It’s doubtful Obama would make a personal appearance in Copenhagen unless there was a "politically connected" constituency to serve. The “community organizer” is using the Olympics as a cover to funnel billions in government funds to his Chicago-based network of cronies. If the president is successful and Chicago gets the Olympic Games, don’t be surprised if the person firing the starter pistol at track and field events is an ACORN organizer. The pistol may even belong to the pimp whose taxes ACORN helped evade.
–Mr. Curmudgeon
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