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Originally Posted by Yume-sama
No way any of them are awake to attend the 9 or 10AM protests.
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That is probably the most offensive thing I have ever heard.
As for the protesters, well last time I checked this is a democracy and they have the right to protest as much as they like as long, obviously, as it does include/promote violence.
I never wanted the games. Vancouver is, byfar, Canada's most socially/economically stratified city yet the province find billions to build skating rink but mysteriously have no money for the homeless, drug addiction centres, hospitals, the disabled, elder care, or more post-secondary education.
For me and many like my whole family who run the gammit of wealthy to retired to disabled NONE of us every wanted these games. This is a province with a low standard of living compared to the rest of the country mostly due to housing prices and the nation's lowest minimum wage. It's just that there were and are so many pressing issues in this province and everything was put aside for the last 8 years because of the a 3 week circus.
We are going to be paying for these games for decades to come and everyone {especially the province and VANOC know it}. A mickey-mouse transit line that hs shorter stations than what what they were suppose to be but still came in $800,000,000 over budget. The $1,000,000 per one bedroom apt to house our honoured guests. They were suppose to come in at $240,000/piece with 30% for social housing. Now its down to 10% social housing and will be sold at $500,000 a piece {for offshore investors} and hence the tax payers are going to be subsidizing each precious condo for $500,000 a piece. Its made even more obscene becuase we have lost a lot of the promised social housing while HUNDREDS are losing their apts and SRO for "upgrades" which the province has been allowing. I find it inhumane that a province is far more intereted in putting roofs over skating rinks than people's head's.
It has left the city with a $170,000,000 debt and the city may {and the mayor has said probably} result in the city declaring official bankruptsy. The quadrupling of the security budget because the province took a number out of a hat and knew they were lying thru their teeth.
What about all these little "unexpected" bills that we will be paying back because they "underestimated" the costs.
The developers, construction companies, and inside friends of VANOC have done exceptionally well. I hope to hell that no one on this thread is stupid enough to think that there hasn't been a lot of palm's greased over all the devlopement, land transactions, and construction contracts.
Now that they are here I truley hope the games are a success and I think they will be thanks to all the dedicated volunteers but in 4 short weeks the games will be over, the press will have left and BC will still have even more of the problems she had before the Olympics. Now, however, the province will tell the populas that things are tough in the world economy, we are exporting less , etc, etc so we are all going to have to "tighten our belts" which means fewer services and higher taxes ie...PST/GST combo which he announced only 3 weeks after winning the last election.
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Quality costs money, which you seem to want but don't want to pay for it - and prevailing attitudes like this is why we ended up with what we have for the Canada Line.
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