The Obama Presidential Centre was privately funded.
Trump administration 2024-2028
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Not yet it isn't. There are invoices outstanding - contractors are complaining, some alleging they face ruin - and the backstop fund meant to prevent a public bailout is nowhere near the widely-claimed goal. By appearances enough money was raised to cover the total construction cost (including the inevitable overruns) and fill the backstop fund to the amount widely claimed to be the target, but the latter has not been filled. They should be able to get to "privately funded", but they have to finish the journey first.
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Right idea, now when does it get applied to the US?
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When the people decide the tree needs some refreshing.
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Americans (the ones inhabiting the chunk of land between the Rio Grande and 49 degrees north/Great Lakes) have been drinking their own bathwater for 250 years. Beacon of democracy my ass, its been a haven for grifters, tyrants, and assholes since the Puritans stepped on Plymouth Rock.
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And right from the start, they were masters at self aggrandizement and over the top self promotion (like a certain current president): They make such hullabaloo of said Plymouth rock. Have you ever seen it! It's just another dinky little flat stone amongst tons of similar ones everywhere on that coast. If it hadn't been marked somehow, no one would be able to figure out which one it was.
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Watching from the attic, it just gets a little annoying.There's that anti-Americanism we know and love!
The Line had a good saying about the USA.
"You could of had all of Canada if you weren't such dicks!"
On The Line: A history of America wanting to annex people
Jen Gerson speaks with author Mark Kawar about his history of Americans wanting to add a lot more land to the USA.
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Watching from the attic, it just gets a little annoying.
The Line had a good saying about the USA.
"You could of had all of Canada if you weren't such dicks!"
On The Line: A history of America wanting to annex people
Jen Gerson speaks with author Mark Kawar about his history of Americans wanting to add a lot more land to the USA.
Canadians are pretty good at being dicks ourselves.
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Toward our own. Not to our friends and neighbours.
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We are very good at being outwardly sanctimonious and preachy without an actions to back us up. Not to mention our often over inflation our importance and impact in the world.
We're dicks too, we just don't like to admit it.
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The difference is that very few people in the world listen to us when we get preachy (which I admit is a feature of the central Canada chattering class) . The USA on the other hand have been screwing up the world royally since WWII, while at the same time preaching to the world that they're the perfect democracy.
Vietnam and the Persian Gulf Region are number one examples. The Yanks figured they'd be able to right the wrongs of the French and British Colonials and in the end their hubris embroiled their young men and women in Indo China and now Iran.
No, let me correct myself, the Ivy League Grads embroiled the sons and daughters of trade school grads in these adventures. Heaven forbid their own children would be sacrificed.
And I doubt that the Canadian grads of UofT and McGill would be any better if they were in that position.
Vietnam and the Persian Gulf Region are number one examples. The Yanks figured they'd be able to right the wrongs of the French and British Colonials and in the end their hubris embroiled their young men and women in Indo China and now Iran.
No, let me correct myself, the Ivy League Grads embroiled the sons and daughters of trade school grads in these adventures. Heaven forbid their own children would be sacrificed.
And I doubt that the Canadian grads of UofT and McGill would be any better if they were in that position.
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lol What ever helps you feel better shipmate.
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Fast track american women!
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I been all around this great big world
And I seen all kinds of girls
Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back in the States
Back to the cutest girls in the world
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California girls, they're unforgettable
Daisy Dukes, bikinis on top
Sun-kissed skin so hot, they'll melt your popsicle