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      <![CDATA[This fake Olympic logo is hilarious!!! Check this out.<br>
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      <![CDATA[Looking at the riots in Iran, you have to wonder why we're not doing that in Chicago to reclaim our city from Pat Ryan and the Olympic committee?
        
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      <![CDATA[Keep up the great work No Games Chicago...
    
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqR8_gDDkkU&feature=channel_page
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Now this is what gives me wood!]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["I don't know where he gets the authority to do that," said Ald. Brian Doherty (41st). "We're supposed to be the watchdogs of the budget, and they've been very arrogant in doing whatever they want and not consulting us."
        
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      <![CDATA[Mayor Daley is removing dead wood off the City payroll. Simple as that. It is a tough decision to make, but that is why we pay him the big money!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[You say Hitler was wrong?]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Daley knows what he is doing. I hope he does not kill himself. He works so hard for Chicago. Daley is the real deal, for real.
        
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      <![CDATA["Has anybody done any kind of impact study on how T.I.F.s have affected ed the City&acirc;&#128;&#153;s budget?
    Anybody have a calculator? "
    
    My calculator doesn't have enough display space to show it!
        
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      <![CDATA[We need to follow Dan Savage's advice with Daley, DTMFA.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ali Daley !!! and the 50 fools,....I hope the people are not fooled by their dog and pony show. The 50 fools are worried about possible contenders,having an issue to unseat some or all of the 50 fools,next February 2011
        
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      <![CDATA[I dont have a calculator but I got a Joravsky.
        
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      <![CDATA[Has anybody done any kind of impact study on how T.I.F.s have affected ed the City&acirc;&#128;&#153;s budget? 
    Anybody have a calculator?
        
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      <![CDATA[By the way, the games will be in our parks we pay taxes for and his corporate buddies take the profits and won't share them with the public; I guess we're the fools right?
        
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      <![CDATA[Lying about the cost of such a big endeavor that cost billions of dollars to operate! While he's hiding the cost of the games with backroom deals in Switzerland, the public stays in the dark and they'll just keep spinning the wheel and have Mike Jordan commercials running on Comcast selling the Olympics as a great deal for you and your family. While this is happening CPS will loose funding and close schools, union jobs are cut, CTA infrustructure crumbles, city services are depleted and your tax bill keeps increasing and you'll wonder how and why?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[We Don't need no stinkin Olympics]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o570-57dVaU
        
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      <![CDATA[This will bring good union jobs to Chicago!
        
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      <![CDATA[COME ON PEOPLE STAND UP!!! There is no way we can survive in the city with this corrupt PUNK spending our badly needed tax dollars. This fool is only warried about himself and his corrupt CLAN CULTURE OF POLITRICKS. It is past the time for a good old fasioned AMERICAN A SS KICKEN FOR THOSE WHO THINKK ITE WISE TO DEFRAUD OUR AMERICAN DREAM WITH GANG ACTIVITY.
    WHEN THE PEOPLE COME TOGETHER THIS WILL QUUICKLY END.
        
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      <![CDATA[DO OVER BECAUSE OF TYPO
    Please visit www.nogameschicago.com and make any size donation to support the campaign.
    
    No Games is an all volunteer organization that uses contributions for direct expenses like making 200 copies of a 160 page spiral bound book to distribute to the media, IOC and others who can help stop the bid
        
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      <![CDATA[Please visit www.nogameschiago.com and make any size donation to support the campaign.
    
    No Games is an all volunteer organization that uses contributions for direct expenses like making 200 copies of a 160 page spiral bound book to distribute to the media, IOC and others who can help stop the bid
        
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      <![CDATA["Maybe we should chip in and buy the IOC a subscription to the Sun-Times and Trib. Or they can just link to us for free."
    
    I'm sure there's a fair sample of Dumke & Joravsky in No Games Chicago's evidence book.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Let us all say a prayer now]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ0Y5PjkeTs Thanks for saving my job at the Department of Water Management Mayor Daley, you are myyyy friend!
        
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      <![CDATA[So far, the Chicago City Council has approved only a $500 million guarantee against operating losses, while the state has pledged an additional $250 million. These were augmented by a previous pledge to obtain a $500 million insurance policy. The only guarantees in place against construction costs are the insurance policies required of contractors who would build the facilities.
    
    The bid team's confidence in the plan is partly predicated on its estimated costs rising only modestly because of inflation. But Olympic plans often don't play out as expected. London's plan for the 2012 Summer Games has run into serious financial problems, with the original estimate of $4.9 billion ballooning to $13.5 billion, and much of the corporate sponsorship money pledged has evaporated amid the global economic crisis.
    
    Chicago's guarantee figures -- which would rise to as much as $2.5 billion -- are a far cry from the full tab projected for hosting the Games. The $4.8 billion projected operating budget for the Games includes a projected surplus of $500 million.
    
    Jacquelyn Heard, the mayor's spokeswoman, said Daley's decision to sign the agreement would not put taxpayers further on the hook.
    
    "When the mayor said he was prepared to sign the host-city agreement as is, he said it with the knowledge that by the time we are required to sign it, we will have solidified this private extra insurance," she said. "The mayor would not even think about going back to the taxpayers to finance the Olympics."
    
    But Ryan acknowledged that if losses exceeded the guarantees, the city would indeed be responsible for covering the costs. This would only happen "if everyone was so inept that we go over," he said.
    
    Daley's moves left some aldermen asking questions.
        
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      <![CDATA[Wednesday, April 1, 2009
    For immediate release: March 31, 2009
    Contact: Professor Steve Balkin, sbalkin@roosevelt.edu; ph: 312-341-3696
    
    Will Chicago Olympics be another Vancouver?
    
    The preparation for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics is plagued by
    cost overruns, environmental degradation, and displacement to the
    city&acirc;&#128;&#153;s poorest. Will this pattern repeat itself in Chicago if
    Chicago gets the 2016 Summer Olympics? To answer this question,
    Conrad Schmidt&acirc;&#128;&#153;s 90 minute documentary video about the preparation for
    the Vancouver Olympics, &acirc;&#128;&#156;Five Ring Circus&acirc;&#128;&#157; will be shown, with a panel
    discussion afterwards.
    
    This event is free and will occur on Tuesday evening, April 7 at
    6:15PM in the 2nd Floor Congress Lounge at Roosevelt University&acirc;&#128;&#153;s main
    campus, 430 S. Michigan Avenue. It is hosted by Roosevelt
    University&acirc;&#128;&#153;s Department of Economics and Social Justice Program. The
    public is welcome.
    
    Steve Balkin, Professor of Economics, says, &acirc;&#128;&#156;The Chicago Olympics 2016
    bid seems to have strong forces both for and against. The
    International Olympics Committee is in town and there will be two big
    public protests on Thursday, April 4. So, I thought a balanced and
    public examination of this seems warranted. My students are studying
    cost theory and this is a very good case. The issues surrounding the
    Olympics involve not only fiscal responsibility but also sustainable
    economics, democracy, compatibility with an appropriate vision for the
    future of Chicago, and social justice.&acirc;&#128;&#157;
        
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      <![CDATA[If one believes a lie long enough it becomes the truth . Atlanta is still in debt,and had to displace many of its citizens. The only city that made a profit on the Olympics is L.A. The Economic returns will be short lived for a 17 day event. Yes!! Walsh construction will make out like a bandit,and the rest of Daley's family. Rents is the target area will 2x. I don't what is so rational about stealing others money and property,spouting rougue Capitalism dogma. This not a Communist view to stop thugs and Hustler  for ruinning our lives and city. For you to use Government for your only personal gain,and use others as a door mat is "Fascism"
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:27:16 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[There are many different reasons that people have about not wanting the Olympics. It is not all economics. I believe that we can have our opinions and feelings without being called names.
        
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      <![CDATA[The basic premise of Chicago Olympic bashers is economics is a zero sum game -- that any money spent on the Olympics will not only subtract dollars that could be spent elsewhere, but won't earn any return on investment either.  This is essentially the communistic view of economics, as opposed to a capitalistic view.  It's a wrongheaded assessment because dollars invested do earn a substantial return.  As one who lived in Atlanta during the Olympics, I can attest for the fact that the sizable investment had a substantial and long-lasting return for the city.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:59:20 -0500</pubDate> 
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