Vancouver Olympic Anniversary Events

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this is ridiculousness what other country have anniversary for thier olympic game

Anniversary for the biggest waste of money?
What a joke. Vanoc states we broke even — no where near the truth.
Almost 1 billion owed to Vancouver Tax payers – likely never re-coupe anywhere near the full amount.
1 billion in security costs – never re-couped.
Billions spent on structures for the event – we will never see this money back.
Let it rest. No need to re live the olympic hangover, what a waste of money that could have been put to better use. Whoopie !!! a couple week party for Gordy and Vanoc and guests. What a waste. No need to keep shoving this into the faces of the tax payers that had to foot the bill. Let the Olympic hangover die already.

Yeah nice language. Grow up. Everyone has the right to their own opinion. Section 2(b) of the Charter states that “Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: … freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.”
My opinion is that the Olympics whether in Vancouver or anywhere eslse is a huge waste of money.
If you feel otherwise, that’s fine. No need to start name calling because your belief is different than mine.
I see the only way you can find to defend your thinking is to use name calling – you either have not grown up yet – maybe you never will or you have not paid enough taxes to realize governments who continually waste hard working taxpayers money should be better managed.
The taxpayers of British Columbia and Canada should have been provided with a referendum to vote on the Olympics. The mayor of Vancouver at the time first stated there would be a referendum but then changed it to a non binding plebiscite. How convenient, say one thing and do another, spoken like a true politiican. Why only allow the citizens of Vancouver to vote when taxpayers across this country had to foot the bill?
Quebec spent 30 years paying off the debt it racked up for the 1976 Montreal Summer Games. There’s no reason so far to expect that Vancouver will be any different. Yeah I want these politicians and Vanoc to be in my corner with my finances, they did such a good job with the Olympics. –The security budget for the 2010 Winter Olympics in British Columbia had been set at $900 million, more than five times the original $175 million estimate. If we include infrastructure and other Olympics-related costs, the total bill for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics is at least $9.2 billion—although no one will know the final bill as the politicians will do everything to let the taxpayers know what the total bill will be.
9 billion dollars later and the taxpayers were never given the opportunity to vote on spending this kind of tax dollars?
I thought this was a democratic society — yeah right.

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