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    Hi Guys, how is everyone?

    Just a rant, a couple of weeks ago, we accomodated the Pope for a few days here in England. Hes famous, all well and good. But we spent £20,000,000 on him! I say its an outrage, a waste of money and he got too special treatment, just because he is some famous guy. We dont have enough money anymore to chuck it away like that, and no one really cared he came over anyway! I dont think the taxpayer should have footed the bill for his worthless trip.

    What does everyone think?

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    £20M = $31.6M
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    I was raised Catholic, but i could not agree more! The security detail is ludacris.. $$$$$$
    Other things as well bother me, such as.. Vatican city.. What ever happened to the Fransican way of life.. Chucked out the
    window.. Why live in poverty....Eh..?
    There is much, much more that the Catholic church could and should do for the poor, hungry, and ailing of this world.. But, then there is much more i could and should do for my fellow human beings..

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    Well, There are hardly any catholics here to make it worth while. I am more and more leaning toward the evolution theory tbh.. We dont need that kind of money going out the window.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anon_1990 View Post
    Well, There are hardly any catholics here to make it worth while. I am more and more leaning toward the evolution theory tbh.. We dont need that kind of money going out the window.
    I understand, and if you will forgive my saying... What about the Royal Family, in your neck of the woods..? A symbol is a symbol..! Please do not get me wrong..... A waist of money is a waist, no matter who or what ... The US has an abundance of waist.. I am guilty of waist; not always recycling, food, driving the car when i could have easily walked..etc... and not always helping my fellow human!

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    He visited my city a few years back and it was quite the production but I think it was a money maker. People poured in from all over the US, Canada and Mexico. My state's primary income sources are still tourism related. Hotels were packed, restaurants did a booming business. People were staying with family or friends and renting their homes out for $1000s for the few days of the visit.
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    The only people who turned up are the ones who wanted publicity!

    The Royal Family are the ones who paid for it Olympia! Well actually they invited him, everyone else paid for him! And as for them, I wouldn't want another country footing the bill for them! And to be honest, we are throwing too much money out the window on lots of things in this country, and it didn't benefit anybody having him over here. Everyones forgotten about it now, and nobody really cared to be brutally honest. Everyone, myself included, cared about their hard earned cash going on his visit!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anon_1990 View Post
    The only people who turned up are the ones who wanted publicity!

    The Royal Family are the ones who paid for it Olympia! Well actually they invited him, everyone else paid for him! And as for them, I wouldn't want another country footing the bill for them! And to be honest, we are throwing too much money out the window on lots of things in this country, and it didn't benefit anybody having him over here. Everyones forgotten about it now, and nobody really cared to be brutally honest. Everyone, myself included, cared about their hard earned cash going on his visit!
    What i meant by the Royal Family and the Pope, is they a Symbols... They get attention because of that! They represent....
    Please do not get me wrong... I have not attended church in many, many years. I believe in "ME"..
    As for the waist; financially or other. I find it hard to justify any such spending... But i admit to being guilty of such things myself..

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    Anon_1990 stated..
    And to be honest, we are throwing too much money out the window on lots of things in this country, and it didn't benefit anybody having him over here.
    I would venture to guess they gained something, Political perhaps.. ?

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    I wonder the same thing about these rampant spending habits on security...example the G8/G20 summit that happened in Toronto I believe it was just this past summer ended up with a security bill of apparently 2 billion dollars, that is 2,000,000,000. What the duece is all that about?!?
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