I've received word tonight that the group that the State Department had chosen to fund, plan, design, build, and staff a United States Pavilion at Expo 2010, has announced that they've run out of both time and money.
Expo 2010 opens in May 2010 and it was estimated that the cost of a US Pavilion would have been about 100 million dollars. Under current government rules, all of that money would have had to have come from private industry.
It now looks like there will be no United States Pavilion at history's largest world's fair, a world's fair in perhaps the most important country of the 21st country, an exposition that will host over 200 other countries and 70 to 100 million visitors.
We need to change United States policy toward international expositions. Not only do we need to be able to fund pavilions for government monies, we need to rejoin the Bureau International des Expositions, an organization that now boasts over 100 member nations.
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Yes! This is very sad news, but not totally unexpected. I want to thank you personally, Urso! For your passionate efforts to try to create some action for a USA presence at Expo 2010! I was reading the other day that President-elect Obama was activily promoting the 2016 Olympics for Chicago! I think our government will regret our non-participation at Shanghai!
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