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Comments on: No Surprise https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/10/02/no-surprise-2/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:12:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/10/02/no-surprise-2/comment-page-1/#comment-49210 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:12:56 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=11540#comment-49210 When it is going to cost over $100 and require a visit to a US consulate to get a visa, and the US won’t issue visas to visitors from a lot of countries, you have to expect it.

I live in a tourist area, and our regular crowd of foreign tourists, including Canadians who own condos here, has disappeared. The travel restrictions have wiped out that segment of our market.

People, including the Brazilians are torqued off about it. Any Americans who want to go to Rio are faced with the same requirements that we imposed on the rest of the world, so I don’t anticipate a big US contingent.

The world is not ready to forgive and forget about the Shrubbery yet, and the US should just deal with it and not waste money on these bids.

]]> By: LadyMin https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/10/02/no-surprise-2/comment-page-1/#comment-49207 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:16:24 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=11540#comment-49207 No surprise to me that we didn’t win the bid… but I was a little shocked that they booted us on the first ballot. Only 18 votes. That’s quite a statement. And I don’t take this personally against Chicago… it was the US they were not voting for.

Most of the people that I talked to were either indifferent or against having the games in Chicago. As for me, I’m a Cubs fan, we’re used to this!
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