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Uh-Oh...Looks Like God Is A Shitty Investment
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RE: Uh-Oh...Looks Like God Is A Shitty Investment
(July 28, 2014 at 11:42 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: I think the stadium issue can go either way. Some are built only to suit a particular team and that team is the only one that benefits. Some are built to and do benefit the municipality they're built in.
The premise that the general public should not service debt via taxes to support a private enterprise doesn't seem any more attractive if we add additional private enterprises to the venture. Let the owners pool resources without burdening the taxpayer.

Also, the municipal economic benefit from stadiums is a myth.

Quote:The evidence suggests that attracting a professional sports franchise to a city and building that franchise a new stadium or arena will have no effect on the growth rate of real per capita income and may reduce the level of real per capita income in that city.
http://www.academia.edu/378302/The_Stadi...evelopment
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#12
RE: Uh-Oh...Looks Like God Is A Shitty Investment
I do think if I happen to be in the area some day, I would visit this Creationist Park; as a visitor from Mars might.
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Sometimes I'm glad I live in California because I'll never have to deal with nonsense like that in my state. At least I haven't witnessed it yet. I hope they don't get this thing off the ground. But if the residents of Kentucky agree to pay for it, then I guess it's their decision, but then again, that would be unconstitutional.

Why can't they just raise the funds in their churches? Why do they feel the need to step into the public domain for a private religious matter?
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RE: Uh-Oh...Looks Like God Is A Shitty Investment
We don't actually have that sort of say directly.

-Because AiG already squeezed their clients dry. see: The Creation Museum, also in my state. They're looking for a new mark, simple as that.
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What the actual fuck.

The fact that this isn't being laughed out of the building where the petition is being submitted is testament I think to why many see the US as just utterly crazy sometimes.
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(July 29, 2014 at 12:56 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: What the actual fuck.

The fact that this isn't being laughed out of the building where the petition is being submitted is testament I think to why many see the US as just utterly crazy sometimes.

The US is utterly crazy...all the time.

But thankfully, I can say that, I have freedom of speech as a citizen. Wink Or at least perceived freedom. haha
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Kentucky is desperate for anything that might bring revenue to the state. It's easy to con a desperate person.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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(July 29, 2014 at 12:56 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: ... is testament I think to why many see the US as just utterly crazy sometimes.

Nutty as a bunch of fruit bats. A Church on almost every corner.

But, if there's a middle-eastern shithole needing to be fucked up even further, we're your country!
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