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4. Are you kidding? After visiting Grand Cayman I was broke! Lunch the 1st day blew my food budget....

Reply to LuckyTheDog (Original post)

Thu Jan 19, 2012, 02:34 PM

Jan 2012

... for the week. At the end of the week I had to hitchhike back to the airport. This was in 1982 and there was no American fast food at that time.

Things are still very expensive there. All the food and everything else has to be imported.

Caymanians are way wealthier than Americans, hire Jamaicans and others to do their labor. Every other business in Georgetown is a Bank. In 1982 I visited several homes of average Caymanian citizens. At that time they all had a satellite receiver, color TV and a VCR (which was still a luxury in the US in 1982).

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Oh, come on now... I mean, who DOESN'T have a few million bucks stashed in the Cayman Islands? [View all] LuckyTheDog Jan 2012 OP

it's been a while since I checked, but... mike_c Jan 2012 #1

Has anyone checked the Swiss banks for any Romney accounts? spooky3 Jan 2012 #2

He's just an average, ordinary American--and he wrote a letter to prove it: pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #3

Are you kidding? After visiting Grand Cayman I was broke! Lunch the 1st day blew my food budget.... Scuba Jan 2012 #4

That's probably what Mitt is thinking. subterranean Jan 2012 #5

At least 10's of millions according to ABC. nt Cognitive_Resonance Jan 2012 #6

Damn I'm glad you reminded me Politicalboi Jan 2012 #7

You guys are all just so mean to the free enterprise system gratuitous Jan 2012 #8

Shit I can't even keep track of how many houses I own, just like everyman John McCain Blue Owl Jan 2012 #9

the real scandal riverwalker Jan 2012 #10

The offshore money scandal could do Mitt in. Tax return issue needs to be hammered home tonight. nt Cognitive_Resonance Jan 2012 #11

I've only got a few brazillion stashed over there. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #12

I have a couple hundred thousand in the game cupboard. In the Monopoly box. But that's not all... Speck Tater Jan 2012 #13