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Bankruptcy to Fuck The Poor but
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corporate welfare remains sacrosanct for the rich!
http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/26/news/eco...index.html Quote:Detroit's financial crisis hasn't derailed the city's plans to spend more than $400 million in Michigan taxpayer funds on a new hockey arena for the Red Wings.  RE: Bankruptcy to Fuck The Poor but
July 29, 2013 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2013 at 3:16 pm by Brian37.)
(July 29, 2013 at 3:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: corporate welfare remains sacrosanct for the rich! And the hot dog and beer jockeys who work there cant pay their bills.
As long as rich fucks can drive their BMWs in for a game and park them in secure lots what do they care about hot dog vendors?
Nothing staves off hunger more than a $62.50 ticket of 'Fisticuffs on Ice'.
It is stupefying to me that team owners can get these kinds of deals at all, but that one takes the cake. Maybe the city government will also offer to buy up all of the unsold tickets so that the team can boast of "consecutive sold out games" that no one bothers to attend.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould 
Not only is it a hand-out, these things don't even have a good record of being profitable over the long run.
I know they'll tout it as "Look at all the work it's creating." Yeah, in the short term, but what about the long run well after the arena is built? You think anyone who got a job for a year or two to build that building is going to be able to afford to go to the games afterward?
For some reason I had a flashback to high school where sports was always held up to be far more important than anything else.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
Yet another problem with American education...but that's a different thread.
Just one of the reasons I abhor sports.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
I like hockey. It is not the sport's fault that the owners are greedy capitalist fuckballs and the municipal politicians are spineless shitheads.
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