http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/news/2002/11/03/nyc2012_folo_ap/ New York was selected as USA's city to fight for the 2012 olympics. I feel bad for the area after the terrorist attacks, but i honestly think that this is too much. I mean, the whole nation of the USA was attacked on September 11, 2001...all the freedom loving nations in the world were attacked. But this is no reason fot them to have been selected over San Francisco, Houston, and others for the 2012 summer olympics. They were not the best choice for the Olympics...and the pity votes really don't impress me at all.
New York requires not anyone's pity. On the contrary, New Yorkers pity the backward masses who inhabit the rest of the continent.
So explain to me where the New Yorkers intend to get their ONE BILLION dollars in funding. It wasn't anywhere in their bid from what I have read.
Who is paying for New York's bid and is tax money being used? New York's bid is privately funded, with a budget of $13 million coming from corporate contributions, unions, individuals and foundations. No tax money is being used. $500,000 and above AOL Time Warner Bowne Deutsche Bank Doctoroff Family Foundation JPMorganChase Merrill Lynch The Rudin Family $300,000 and above American Express Continental Airlines Goldman Sachs & Co. KeySpan Loews Corporation Morgan Stanley New York Life Foundation The New York Times $100,000 and above Accenture American Capital Access Andersen AXA Foundation Bank of New York Bloomberg Cendant Cisco Systems, Inc. Credit Suisse First Boston Daily News Debevoise & Plimpton Deloitte & Touche Digital Pulp Dover Corporation Ernst & Young Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. Fisher Brothers Glenwood Management HIP Health Plan of New York S. L. 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The Ornamental Metal Institute of New York Panasonic Ralph Schlosstein and Jane Hartley Roofing & Waterproofing Contractors Association of New York Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local Union 137 The Steel Institute of New York The Summer Fund Swanke Hayden Connell Architects Teamsters Local Union 282 Thornton-Tomasetti Group, Inc. Tile, Marble & Terrazzo BAC Local Union #7 of New York and New Jersey How much will the Games cost the taxpayers? Nothing. The Games will be funded from private Olympic revenues, including television rights, ticket sales and sponsorships and licensing.
If they gave it to NYC as a sort of pity vote over the terrorist thing, well then the USOC is just stupid. Considering the Olympics will be held ELEVEN YEARS after the WTC tragedy, it's kinda anti-climactic. Why not hold them in Oklahoma City? If NYC truly had the best bid, more power to them. But, if this was some "let's prop up NYC after the terrorist attacks," it makes little sense. Of course, this is all assuming they'll win the bid over Rome, Paris, et al.
We don't want them. We have too much other **** to deal with over here in NYC. If they took a referendum, it would lose. I hope it does.
