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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 965904" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>You could bring into the discussion the situation with native americans and the land actions of the last 500 years but how does that do anything for the discussion of taking public funds for private benefit in 2012'? How does that answer having a cost benefit of shifting cost risks onto the public thus boosting net profits over time?</p><p></p><p>It may seem I'm picking on Mark Cuban and in this case it would seem so but Cuban is by far not the only offender and in his defense he may not be the worse. But he said something in the original quote that IMO personifies an attitude that permeates American culture (business and individual) as it pertains to availing one's self to the public kitty.</p><p></p><p>Cuban said:</p><p></p><p></p><p>In the private arena (no pun) I got no problem with what Cuban said but in the business of sports entertainment in which owners often hold guns to local govt's to get overbuilt sports complexes constructed, I find Cuban's words not only telling but on the money.</p><p></p><p>To the broader point of my posts, at <a href="http://www.akdart.com/sports.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">this link</span></a> if you scroll down, you'll find a number of other links relating to articles and studies of public monies being used for sports ventures and their economic worth. I'll leave it at that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 965904, member: 2189"] You could bring into the discussion the situation with native americans and the land actions of the last 500 years but how does that do anything for the discussion of taking public funds for private benefit in 2012'? How does that answer having a cost benefit of shifting cost risks onto the public thus boosting net profits over time? It may seem I'm picking on Mark Cuban and in this case it would seem so but Cuban is by far not the only offender and in his defense he may not be the worse. But he said something in the original quote that IMO personifies an attitude that permeates American culture (business and individual) as it pertains to availing one's self to the public kitty. Cuban said: In the private arena (no pun) I got no problem with what Cuban said but in the business of sports entertainment in which owners often hold guns to local govt's to get overbuilt sports complexes constructed, I find Cuban's words not only telling but on the money. To the broader point of my posts, at [URL="http://www.akdart.com/sports.html"][COLOR=#ff0000]this link[/COLOR][/URL] if you scroll down, you'll find a number of other links relating to articles and studies of public monies being used for sports ventures and their economic worth. I'll leave it at that. [/QUOTE]
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