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2017-09-06 Caribbean-Latin America

Brazil police raid home of Olympic committee chief

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Posted by Fred 2017-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Gee, wonder if we could do that for Mitt?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-06 01:05|| 2017-09-06 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Didn't share with upstairs?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-06 01:13|| 2017-09-06 01:13|| Front Page Top

#3 I like Brazilian people. Some of them are very much like Americans. I even thought about doing international business in some way in Brazil, but after closer scrutiny, I found two major problems:

1) Their government is very anti-business. You think the US Dems are bad, read the booklet provided by the Brazilian consulate to Americans considering doing business there. It is so pro-worker that there is almost no way to make money as a capitalist. The socialist party goes out of its way to take any profits.

2) To try to survive therefore, business people have to lie and hide a lot of their commercial activities from the government, which breeds corruption, which is getting to be the way to do things to keep a buck.

The rich who live in the high rises on the resort beaches such as Rio Camboriu, Santa Catarina, Brazil got there not by just hard work, but by deceiving the "workers party" government in major ways.

Posted by Hupeting Sforza8196 2017-09-06 01:23|| 2017-09-06 01:23|| Front Page Top

#4 correction Rio Camboriu should be Balneário Camboriú.

Posted by Hupeting Sforza8196 2017-09-06 01:25|| 2017-09-06 01:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Their government is very anti-business.

I.e., corrupt socialists.

Posted by Raj 2017-09-06 01:45|| 2017-09-06 01:45|| Front Page Top

#6 After spend $125 million on their bid, Chicago never even saw the long knives come out before they hit the ground.

Posted by Capsu78 2017-09-06 12:03|| 2017-09-06 12:03|| Front Page Top

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