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To: bordergal
work is for Americans, by Americans

How do you feel about foreign athletes in the US. My guess is there are at least 300 foreign born athletes making at least 1 million a year with the average at about 8 million a year. That would be 2.4 billion for 300 jobs at very good wages.

Notables would Yao Ming, Mano Ginobili, Vlade Divac, Ichiro Suzuki, Idecki Matsui, Livan and Orlando Hernandez, Danny Baez, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, Omar Visquel, Sergei Federov along with probably half the entire NHL, golfers VJ Singh, Michael Cambell ,Ernie Els, Adam Scott, Muaryama, KJ Choi, Colin Montgomery, probably 1/2 of the US pro soccer players.

64 posted on 03/14/2006 10:05:12 PM PST by staytrue
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To: staytrue

Depends. Golf seems to be an international individual event, so if VJ Singh plays in the US, no different then Tiger Woods playing in Scotland. BUT, if it's billed as an American team, then players should all be US citizens, and/or be in the process of obtaining said citizenship.

If they want the payout, take on the responsibilities.


70 posted on 03/14/2006 10:45:13 PM PST by bordergal (1)
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