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Call me a cynic but in many ways I do agree with the Olympic Games protesters but certainly not their methods.
What was once a world stage focused on amature sports has now evolved into a mega billions corporate greed event where winning is the goal at just about any cost; performance enhancement drugs, some medals decided on the basis of bribery of backroom deals, athletes being "paid" to do nothing but train during the years between games and the list continues.
No longer is this an event that allows the athletes to show off their NATURAL talents and abilities but everything is geared to earning potential on both sides; how to make the most money in the shortest of time as, the window of opportunity is small.
After the games, there remains beautiful state of the art facilities which only benefit the higher income earner because the per person usage cost is not within easy reach of the average/low incomes.
In the meantime in BC Gordon is doing all he can to secret the homeless and the abject poor (to where?) so that when the world does arrive all will look so pretty and rosy.
I am sorry but when you can spend such obscene amounts of tax dollars on a "for the rich" benefit, while closing women's shelters, allowing kids to go to school hungry, enacting a $6 wage, gearing education to the rich, and destroying health care and help for the disabled and elderly, then you are no longer a government for the people.
I find it offensive when it sounds like a person on welfare does not have the right to make their voice heard.There are far more "welfare needed clients" than there are welfare abusers.