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Wraith 
Really? How did 'He' manage that all by himself????


yep same way he "all by himself takes credit for saving the olympics NOW but the truth is that he would have failed miserably if not for being able to lobby his utah buddy and fellow republicanBennett to get the funds pushed through-pay back was there were all sorts of pet projects with money going to non olympic ventures
in his 2004 book, Turnaround, Romney acknowledges the central role of the federal government in making the Olympics possible. "No matter how well we did cutting costs and raising revenue, we couldn't have Games without the support of the federal government," he wrote.
as John McCain said the 2.7 billion dollars spent was "possibly criminal"
“I think it is a disgrace,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who, along with U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., asked the government agency to investigate the escalating expenditures for hosting the Olympic games in American cities.“But this is a logical extension of what you get when you start pork-barrel spending.”
But others say that federal spending on the Olympic games is justified because the games help bring together people from many nations.
“Recognizing that our government spends billions of dollars to maintain wartime capability, it is entirely appropriate to invest several hundred millions to promote peace,” Mitt Romney, the president of the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee, wrote in a letter in August to the GAO.