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Three months after the Olympics, Rio de Janeiro is broke
MSN PRI ^ | December 1, 2016

Posted on 12/01/2016 4:11:16 PM PST by SMGFan

Three months since the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics, the “marvelous city,” as it’s known, is unraveling.  The state of Rio is broke. It hasn’t been able to pay its bills since long before the games. A federal bailout kept police on the streets and hospitals open while Olympics tourists were in town. But now the money has dried up, and public employees aren’t being paid.

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KEYWORDS: olympics; sendromney
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Who did not see that coming?
1 posted on 12/01/2016 4:11:16 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

Financially and morally bankrupt.


2 posted on 12/01/2016 4:12:26 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SMGFan

But but but.... hosting the olympics was suppose to be a boon to the economy...

Sigh.


3 posted on 12/01/2016 4:12:57 PM PST by TheBattman (A member over 15 years, yet my posts are "submitted for review" and no freepmail...)
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To: SMGFan

I never want to see the Olympics ever held here. It is a waste of money.


4 posted on 12/01/2016 4:12:59 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: SMGFan

The Rio Games didn’t do one thing for Brazil.


5 posted on 12/01/2016 4:13:12 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: SMGFan

Send Jill Stein there to recount the medals.


6 posted on 12/01/2016 4:13:32 PM PST by struggle (The)
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To: goldstategop
The Rio Games didn’t do one thing for Brazil.

Sure it did!

It bankruptured them.

And it's one gigantic hernia...

7 posted on 12/01/2016 4:15:22 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: SMGFan

The Olympics are not worth it. Maybe it was a stroke of genius for Chicago to get Obama behind their Olympic bid. Obama’s support is the kiss of death, thereby saving Chicago’s financial a$$.


8 posted on 12/01/2016 4:15:44 PM PST by fhayek
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The Olympics are not worth it. Maybe it was a stroke of genius for Chicago to get Obama behind their Olympic bid. Obama’s support is the kiss of death, thereby saving Chicago’s financial a$$.


9 posted on 12/01/2016 4:15:44 PM PST by fhayek
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But but but.... hosting the olympics was suppose to be a boon to the economy..

Of course not.

What they should have done instead is to build a bullet train hundreds of miles long. Look what it's already doing for Cali... uh-oh, wait. That doesn't work either.

10 posted on 12/01/2016 4:17:07 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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Mittens for Ambassador to Rio?

*SMIRK*


11 posted on 12/01/2016 4:18:35 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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I could cry for them. Especially my adopted family. Just painful to watch them destroy themselves. Such a beautiful place yet such unfathomable misery and most of it they caused themselves.


12 posted on 12/01/2016 4:19:09 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the differen)
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To: SMGFan

Broke long before the olympics.


13 posted on 12/01/2016 4:19:25 PM PST by sasquatch
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They need more illegal immigration. Illegals are great wealth creators. /S


14 posted on 12/01/2016 4:20:51 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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Maybe it was a stroke of genius for Chicago to get Obama behind their Olympic bid. Obama’s support is the kiss of death, thereby saving Chicago’s financial a$$.

It would have been nice to have a huge home field advantage in the shooting events like trap shooting, the marathon or the 240 km bike road race

15 posted on 12/01/2016 4:21:54 PM PST by KarlInOhio (" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
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To: SMGFan

They should keep the games at Athens, it’d be so much easier that way.


16 posted on 12/01/2016 4:24:34 PM PST by Shadow44
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I bet tourism is non existent after the way USA swimmers were treated

Who’d want to go that POShole


17 posted on 12/01/2016 4:30:22 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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I haven't seen the entire country....not by a longshot...but everything I *have* seen of Brazil (including Rio) says cesspool to me.
18 posted on 12/01/2016 4:31:08 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: SMGFan

Doh!


19 posted on 12/01/2016 4:32:40 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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I suppose Rio could be considered marvelous...

I certainly marvel at their incredibly high crime and murder rates..


20 posted on 12/01/2016 4:37:10 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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