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Re: Entitled to their entitlements

Well, we're now talking about things outside the realm of simple expense accounts. Failing to budget for a $700 million dollar expense (I guarantee will come in well over budget) anywhere at all takes a very special (Liberal) level of incompetence, as Horvath mentioned.
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Are you kidding me, Vancouver thought the same thing, and they lost their shirt on the deal to sell Olympic housing.

"affordable" housing next door to market housing can't work. I'm waiting for Regent Park to fall apart and fast, they're building 400k+ townhomes around the edge of the area, do you really think they want drug dealers, prostitutes, pimps etc living in the same area?

Then at the same time, why would I want to pay "market prices" for my home, spend time and money on upkeep, while next door, is a a place that's not kept up and because there is no sense of ownership, just don't give a shit.

Too bad goggle maps is badly out of date, they're building this MONSTROSITY of a pool for the "disadvantaged" on Shuter St, its bigger then the pool UoT is building for the Pan Am games.

I'm tired of these circuses coming to (insert your town) every couple of years, there are always cost overruns, corruption, and nobody except the builders and the ones benefiting from the largesse benefit.

The only time there is any serious infrastructure being built is when these circuses come to town.
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No, I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake.......

I think you hit the nail on the head for this one. Even moreso then the expenses and cups of tea billing. These events are nothing but bragging rights and parties for the super rich and entitled. People who run these have entitlement complexes and expect certain things. Otherwise their offended and will choose someone else.

They don't really have any true benefit and can actually make things worse (such as the closed 100M dollar pool built down here in Windsor that closed 3 pools in disadvantaged areas. One they'll make cost 5 times as much for the public to use. Even then its only a 10th of the seating capacity needed to host teir 1 swim events.

Their pushed as "bragging rights" for all of about 5 years. Then paid for by the peasants for the next 30. Too bad though your community will endlessly whine if it doesn't get em (Toronto has lost the Olympics twice for example).

Remember the consultants were in a private employment relationship. They were not voted in by public vote or appointment whom could resign over the expenses. At least anyone the government CAN attack (like the officials who signed a binding contract to the taxpayer).

If they didn't agree with how expenses were handled you could bet they would have gone to a competitor who did.

And they know their the only ticket to get said event(and unrealistic expense claims). So its as much a captive market as it is entitlement.

the white elephant in the room for vancouver that was.

didn't the mayor of london expense his son's wedding when he was an MP?

It gets better,since they're so good at expensing , there is now a $7m retention plan.

It's disgusting the amount of waste that follows the Ontario Liberals around...

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But Chan %u2014 who emphasized Friday he is watching the Games' budget with "a hawk's eyes" %u2014 was persuaded once it was explained to him that such incentives are standard practice for such large-scale sports events.

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what do we the taxpayers get out of all this?
Traffic headaches, affordable housing for others, nonsensical sporting venues like a velodrome in Milton of all places..., the Ti-cats get a much needed new stadium, yet nobody thought to include a new one for the Argos, so they don't play at BMO Field.

It came into play under Dalton, but she's good with it.

Heh.... Just realized this thread snuck into regular Canchat. Let's be careful not to make it in any way political...