No justification !!

[niteowl]

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=2ee7533a-e454-4739-9bdf-f0bc19ba8d1a

There is no way in hell anyone can tell me spending $459,897 for 16 trips to other speed-skating ovals around the world. These are junkets plain and simple. Vanoc kissed-off SFU claiming that it was worried about the cost over-run in building the oval and yet it will now cost about $178 million.

I wasn't allow to vote for the games or not because I live in Burnaby and yet I'll have to fork out money to pay for the games.

 

[Ilovethemall]

yup

I voted for the games and still support them but this group is a cluster fuck of greedy bastards.

 

[sexaholic]

Hey Niteowl,I just e-mailed the pigs and called them every name in the book!They are pigs like politicians!They get elected and they abuse their power at taxpayers expense!We have a speed skating oval in Calgary and Salt Lake city.These morons ever heard of Westjet?!Or computer animation to see the other ovals in the world?That is why if I get a chance to tax evade the government here,I gladly will.They are all pigs as far as I'm concerned.The way they waist our tax dollars is outrageuos.I'd gladly go to jail for fucking them over!

 

[Cock Throppled]

LET THE PORKING BEGIN! Enjoy the party, boys 'cause this is just the start - every venue, every contract, every nut and bolt will require a personal inspection overseas by some group. The Olympics are not a celebration of sport - it is and always will be an unbridled display of greed, graft and corruption. Then the local politicians and bureaucrats get on board. I was against the Olys from the start because of their history. A small group of failed European royalty and con men basically hold whatever country that decides to participate in their party to ransom. They can dictate how much, where, when and how high said country has to jump to please them. We'll be paying for this fiasco for a long, long time.

 

[LonelyGhost]

So someone explain to me again ...

how it is that building the new ferries in BC was a waste of money ...

but the Olympics, which will cost us MORE than the new ferries, will actually make us enough money to collect BILLIONS in taxes in a mere two weeks.

logic seems to suggest that it would have been cheaper to sub-contract the Olympics to Calgary and just pay them a flat rate to rent their facilities and then have them send us ALL the proceeds!

 

[niteowl]

When they tallied the numbers on how much the Games would cost they used what 2002 dollar amount?

They are already closing in on the budget and not one-to-be-built venue has yet to have their foundation laid. Who would have thought it would cost a lot of money just to have a ground-breaking ceremony?