Immorality and Freedom

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Immortality and Freedom

With cities, states and Americans all over the country struggling to make ends meet, bringing the Olympics to the United States would have been more costly to tax payers than worthy. Hosting the Olympics is an extremely and continuously expensive endeavor as pointed out in an article written by Gordon T. Anderson of CNN Money back in 2005:
“Sydney spends about $32 million a year for maintenance and upkeep of venues it built to host the event in 2000, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Many of those facilities are barely used. The mountain bike track was shuttered because so few people went there, and the equestrian facilities require about a $1 million subsidy to stay open.

The lavish, privately owned Sydney SuperDome, site of the basketball and gymnastics competitions in 2000, filed for bankruptcy reorganization.

Montreal -- whose 1976 Olympiad, which I attended, is synonymous with fiasco, from wild construction cost overruns to the accidental extinguishing of the Olympic torch -- is also still paying for it.

All told, the province of Quebec has paid some $1.4 billion in Olympic-related interest, Knight-Ridder reported. Annual maintenance on publicly owned facilities comes to about $22 million.”
Since Chicago would have had to put up billions to get the city ready for the Olympics and since they do not have the luxury of having several extra billion dollars sitting around, it is a good thing for the people of Chicago and all Americans that the International Olympic Committee did not select them as the site. Chicago would have either had to borrow the money, putting its citizens in further debt or the United States government would have borrowed the money for them, putting the rest of the country into further debt. (Bailouts, bailouts, bailouts, etc.) Chicagoans should be happy that the Olympics will not be hosted in their city because they would be paying for continuous upkeep of new sites built.

Whether Chicago had won the Olympics or not it was ridiculous for both Obama’s to be traveling to Denmark, an estimated $5 million trip, not including Oprah. Apparently when your travel budget is paid for by the American tax payers, common sense is not part of the equation. The Obama’s would serve Americans much better if they actually showed that they too care about our money and how it is spent. American Presidents should not be involved in the Olympic lobbying process which is why delegations are created. Did Obama really think he was going to woo over the Olympic Committee at the last minute so they would select Chicago? Was it truly necessary to spend millions of extra traveling dollars for Obama to fly over there and waste valuable time and effort (regardless of how short that time) on something like the Olympics?

The other victory for Americans is that Obama found 25 minutes to spend talking to the Commanding General of the Afghanistan war on his way home from Denmark. General McChrystal recently told “60 Minutes” that he had only spoken with Obama once in the past 70 days. Since Obama is the Commander-in-Chief and we are actively in a war against terrorism in Afghanistan isn’t it logical that he would talk to the General commanding said war more often than not? So you see Obama’s failure at winning the Olympics for Chicago is a victory for tax payers. Obama’s failed trip to Denmark is a victory for Americans because he finally met with General McChrystal.

There have been phones in the White House since 1877 and Rutherford B. Hayes.

UPDATE: It was reported on “Special Report” that Obama spent 70 minutes with the IOC pushing Chicago for the Olympics and only 25 minutes with General McChrystal. Obama's priorities are seriously questionable.

This explains without apology, my feeling of the Obamas taking two presidential planes full of supporters to Denmark in an attempt to influence the bringing of Olympics to the crime-ridden, Mafia-controlled, city of Chicago. No one is surprised to hear me admit that politically I am a little right of Genghis Khan.

But for those of you who supported and voted for this despicable Obama Administration, you are getting about what you deserved. It probably does not bother most of you who voted for him that we have some of our finest young men and women embedded in a winless war in Afghanistan and the Middle East. It probably does not bother many of you that we have a culture of death being promoted by this administration, incomprehensible in its immorality. To think that a baby, created in God's own image, whose body possesses billions of cells, each cell with DNA information that would fill thousands of pages, each baby with a brain possessing billions of intricate cells, each precious child with the ability, after birth, to bring joy to parents, grandparents and to make a contribution to the world, all which only God has predetermined. Is it conceivable that a country could be so immoral as to elect someone to the highest office in the land, who in 8 months time, has reversed over 200 years of progress in industry, banking, insurance, education, attempted health care degradation, and has placed your children and grandchildren into an impossible debt which can never be repaid. There is no way that the indebtedness of this nation can be repaid. Even if by some miracle, he and his enablers in congress could be stopped.

Only virtuous people are capable of freedom. It is easy to talk about liberty but costly to defend. (I speak as a totally blind, 100% disabled, service connected veteran.)

Christianity at one time was the conscience of the government. With voodoo worship in the White House, a culture of corruption in the congress, talking to anyone in Washington, your State House or your local Court House, is like going to the nearest wall and talking to it.