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Under Romney Bain's investments led to thousands of laid off workers.
Romney while at Bain was responsible for some of the firms that grew into the largest outsourcing companies in history.
Olympic Lobbyist
“You’ve got well over $1 billion that’s just a rip-off of the taxpayers, and, you know, is really a national disgrace … Actually, there should be a federal investigation.”—Sen. John McCain
Record breaking expense under Romney's leadership the Salt Lake Olympics got more federal cash than any other Olympics and cost taxpayers $1.3 billion.
Pet projects: Romney used the unprecedented amount of taxpayer money on unnecessary projects, including $30 million for parking lots, $2 million for sewer systems, $500,000 for planting trees, and $4.7 million on upgrades to post offices.
If you can honestly say that spending money on sewer systems is unnecessary in that situation, you'll be hard to take seriously on any other subject.
Romney used the unprecedented amount of taxpayer money (for the Olympics) on unnecessary projects, including $30 million for parking lots, $2 million for sewer systems, $500,000 for planting trees, and $4.7 million on upgrades to post offices.(Parenthetical material added)
Originally posted by PromiseKept2016
Under Romney Bain's investments led to thousands of laid off workers.
Romney while at Bain was responsible for some of the firms that grew into the largest outsourcing companies in history.
Olympic Lobbyist
“You’ve got well over $1 billion that’s just a rip-off of the taxpayers, and, you know, is really a national disgrace … Actually, there should be a federal investigation.”—Sen. John McCain
Record breaking expense under Romney's leadership the Salt Lake Olympics got more federal cash than any other Olympics and cost taxpayers $1.3 billion.
Pet projects: Romney used the unprecedented amount of taxpayer money on unnecessary projects, including $30 million for parking lots, $2 million for sewer systems, $500,000 for planting trees, and $4.7 million on upgrades to post offices.
Originally posted by PromiseKept2016
Pet projects: Romney used the unprecedented amount of taxpayer money on unnecessary projects, including $30 million for parking lots, $2 million for sewer systems, $500,000 for planting trees, and $4.7 million on upgrades to post offices.
Record breaking expense under Romney's leadership the Salt Lake Olympics got more federal cash than any other Olympics and cost taxpayers $1.3 billion.
The true cost of staging the 2012 Olympics is five times the figure given when London won the bid in 2005.
A Sky investigation has revealed the final cost for the Games will be more than £12bn.
However, associated costs could make the bill as high as £24bn - a staggering 10 times the original estimate.
Source
The £12bn cost of the Olympics, calculated by Sky, does not include extra counter-terrorism funding of £1.131bn being allocated to the police despite a ministerial statement saying "much of this capacity will be devoted to the Olympics in 2012".
Nor does it include the £4.4bn budgets of the security and intelligence services.