How come it doesn't work for the little guy?

How come it doesn't work for the little guy? 

 

Bob and All Sports Fans, Everywhere! 

 It's a crying shame that when I was a small boy and my two sisters and I set up an old apple crate with a picture of Lemonade and some glasses and a hand drawn sign that said, "Lemonade: 2 cents a glass, 1 cent for a refill", it's too bad we didn't know we could get our stand built by the local tax payers.  In fact we should have received "kick backs" from the grocery store for buying our lemons there.  The store would not be out a single red cent since they'd simply pass the cost along to their customers. 

And in our situation it would have definitely put money back into the community.  Especially the candy counter at Mister Jacobson's drug store. 

Yes, too bad our local government wasn't as far sighted back then as they are today, where they put up our money to build a play field for millionaires and billionaires to play their games on. 

And then, after we get it all financed through their banks, and set up the vendors of their choice(meaning the ones who pay the highest tribute), they give us a little of our money back so they can name the playing field after themselves. 

And we call this Sport?  Then give me a gun and a mask and I'll join the game. 

 

Curious Carl

----- Original Message -----

From: Bob Hachey

To: acb-chat@acb.org

Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:04 AM

Subject: Re: [acb-chat] FW: [sporthinkery] [E of S] Debating the SuperBowl Protests

Hi Eric,
Very good post for Super Bowl week.
Firstly, let me say that I'm a pretty big fan of NFL football and a huge New
England Patriots fan. Obviously, I won't be posting messages to this or any
other lists during Sunday's big game.
But I do have mixed feelings about government resources being used to
support sports, particularly using public money to build sports stadia.
I used to believe that public investment in such a venture would bring back
big returns to the investing cities. But a book on BARD pointed out in
detail why this is not the case.
One of the chapters in the book details how cities like New York and Seattle
have come to regret making such investments. One of the things I like about
being a fan of the Pats is that Patriots owner Bob Craft procured private
funding to build a new top notch stadium for his team without public
subsidy. True, some of the infrastructure such as road and public transit
improvements were made but that's far better than having a city or state
foot the bill for a new stadium while the wealthy owners walk off with all
the profits. If all corporate big wigs and sports team owners showed the
community spirit and responsibility of Bob craft we Americans would be a lot
better