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Three months after the Olympics, Rio de Janeiro is broke
MSN PRI ^
| December 1, 2016
Posted on 12/01/2016 4:11:16 PM PST by SMGFan
Three months since the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics, the “marvelous city,” as it’s known, is unraveling. The state of Rio is broke. It hasn’t been able to pay its bills since long before the games. A federal bailout kept police on the streets and hospitals open while Olympics tourists were in town. But now the money has dried up, and public employees aren’t being paid.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: olympics; sendromney
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Who did not see that coming?
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:11:16 PM PST
by
SMGFan
To: SMGFan
Financially and morally bankrupt.
2
posted on
12/01/2016 4:12:26 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: SMGFan
But but but.... hosting the olympics was suppose to be a boon to the economy...
Sigh.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:12:57 PM PST
by
TheBattman
(A member over 15 years, yet my posts are "submitted for review" and no freepmail...)
To: SMGFan
I never want to see the Olympics ever held here. It is a waste of money.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:12:59 PM PST
by
manc
( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
To: SMGFan
The Rio Games didn’t do one thing for Brazil.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:13:12 PM PST
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: SMGFan
Send Jill Stein there to recount the medals.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:13:32 PM PST
by
struggle
(The)
To: goldstategop
The Rio Games didn’t do one thing for Brazil.Sure it did!
It bankruptured them.
And it's one gigantic hernia...
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:15:22 PM PST
by
publius911
(IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
To: SMGFan
The Olympics are not worth it. Maybe it was a stroke of genius for Chicago to get Obama behind their Olympic bid. Obama’s support is the kiss of death, thereby saving Chicago’s financial a$$.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:15:44 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: SMGFan
The Olympics are not worth it. Maybe it was a stroke of genius for Chicago to get Obama behind their Olympic bid. Obama’s support is the kiss of death, thereby saving Chicago’s financial a$$.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:15:44 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: TheBattman
But but but.... hosting the olympics was suppose to be a boon to the economy.. Of course not.
What they should have done instead is to build a bullet train hundreds of miles long. Look what it's already doing for Cali... uh-oh, wait. That doesn't work either.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:17:07 PM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
To: SMGFan
Mittens for Ambassador to Rio?
*SMIRK*
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:18:35 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
To: SMGFan
I could cry for them. Especially my adopted family. Just painful to watch them destroy themselves. Such a beautiful place yet such unfathomable misery and most of it they caused themselves.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:19:09 PM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the differen)
To: SMGFan
Broke long before the olympics.
To: TheBattman
They need more illegal immigration. Illegals are great wealth creators. /S
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:20:51 PM PST
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: fhayek
Maybe it was a stroke of genius for Chicago to get Obama behind their Olympic bid. Obama’s support is the kiss of death, thereby saving Chicago’s financial a$$. It would have been nice to have a huge home field advantage in the shooting events like trap shooting, the marathon or the 240 km bike road race
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:21:54 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
To: SMGFan
They should keep the games at Athens, it’d be so much easier that way.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:24:34 PM PST
by
Shadow44
To: SMGFan
I bet tourism is non existent after the way USA swimmers were treated
Who’d want to go that POShole
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:30:22 PM PST
by
A_Former_Democrat
("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
To: SMGFan
I haven't seen the entire country....not by a longshot...but everything I *have* seen of Brazil (including Rio) says cesspool to me.
To: SMGFan
To: SMGFan
I suppose Rio could be considered marvelous...
I certainly marvel at their incredibly high crime and murder rates..
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:37:10 PM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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