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Paper Roses

(7,475 posts)
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 06:12 PM Jun 2015

To the Boston Olympics 2024 committee. We don't want it. Pay attention!

You members keep adding more members to the committee, big names, recognizable people to try and add a positive spin to this boondoggle. Take a rest. We don't want the games, no matter how many important personages you add to the committee membership. It is getting to sound like desperation on your part.
Go home guys, give the residents of Massachusetts a break. We all know how this will end up.

Big business names, big sports personalities, big baloney.

The committee has now added more personages to the ranks. As of today, new additions have brought the total to 49 members. This is ridiculous.

To all the members, if you really care, walk the streets, ask the citizens of Mass how they feel. Don't do it in the financial district, go to the towns and cities and talk to 'everyman'. You will find that we are sick and tired of all this big business baloney.

Find another city. Find another place willing to absorb the debt and headache that will be the result of this endeavor. Enough of the pressure and the big name push. We are not stupid. Our wallets cannot afford this. Our state cannot absorb what the citizens know will be a financial disaster.
Enough already!!!

Edited to correct date.

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To the Boston Olympics 2024 committee. We don't want it. Pay attention! (Original Post) Paper Roses Jun 2015 OP
Have we collectively traveled back in time? philosslayer Jun 2015 #1
Do you live in Massachusetts? Remember the Big Dig promises? Paper Roses Jun 2015 #6
Have you looked at the header to your post? philosslayer Jun 2015 #9
Oops, old age catches up now and then. n/t Paper Roses Jun 2015 #13
you might be missing some humour... ProdigalJunkMail Jun 2015 #10
Marty McFly? Is that you?? nt Logical Jun 2015 #2
Los Angeles will take it. ellisonz Jun 2015 #3
IMO, But......Romney made a deal not to run for POTUS in place of the 2024 games. CK_John Jun 2015 #4
Well, thank God Athens got it then! joeybee12 Jun 2015 #5
Look what it brought to Greece. Economic disaster. We don't want that, do we? n/t Paper Roses Jun 2015 #8
I was being sarcastic... joeybee12 Jun 2015 #12
OK lpbk2713 Jun 2015 #7
the people you need to be sending this to is not the OC ProdigalJunkMail Jun 2015 #11
 

philosslayer

(3,076 posts)
1. Have we collectively traveled back in time?
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 06:14 PM
Jun 2015

Or just the poster? And have we figured out what to do about that whole y2k thing yet? Its scaring me to death!!

Paper Roses

(7,475 posts)
6. Do you live in Massachusetts? Remember the Big Dig promises?
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 06:21 PM
Jun 2015

I live in the 'here and now'. Love my state, don't want us to face another economic disaster!

Y2K, sure! Let us forget that and talk about the dollars involved and the incredible disruption to all who live here.

 

philosslayer

(3,076 posts)
9. Have you looked at the header to your post?
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 06:25 PM
Jun 2015

That might explain while you're confused about the responses you are getting

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
12. I was being sarcastic...
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 06:29 PM
Jun 2015

I don't blame you...when I lived in Seattle there was talk of trying to get in on the 22078 bidding, I think...there was an uproar...no one wanted it...too much of a headache.

ProdigalJunkMail

(12,017 posts)
11. the people you need to be sending this to is not the OC
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 06:27 PM
Jun 2015

it is your state and local gov't and probably Chamber who will stop at nothing to get them... the OC sees them as Boston, MA.

sP

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