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Related: About this forumOFA: Joe Ricketts Decries Socialism Asks Government for $300 Million to Renovate Wrigley Park.
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OFA: Joe Ricketts Decries Socialism Asks Government for $300 Million to Renovate Wrigley Park. (Original Post)
Velvet Revolution
May 2012
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MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)1. MN just decided to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in socialism to the billionaire owners
of the Vikings football team. Nauseating.
Velvet Revolution
(143 posts)2. Yep, here in DC
Here in DC the Nats owners got a shiny, brand new ballpark to the tune of $600 million dollars form DC taxpayers, yet we have no money for more homeless shelters, rehab centers of course, low-income housing, etc.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)3. Talk about brass balls.....
...Joe, you earned a place in line.
- K&R
Archae
(46,327 posts)4. Why does this extortion continue? Simple.
Because no politician wants to be the guy who "lost the (fill in the blank team)."
SJohnson
(120 posts)5. Pull Yourself Up!
And Do It Yourself Bitch! Makes my stomach turn