The Quiet Crimes of the Olympics
It's amazing how casually we treat public money these days. The spending of it in huge gobs in not only not news, it is buried in the back pages as an afterthought.
We have only ourselves to lame for this indolence.
Today, there was a small item on page B2 of the Sun headlined "City plans Olympic live sites."
This extravagance will cost a mere $23 Million dollars. $5 Million will come from city tax payers.
Well, guess what, folks?
I don't want to pay for that. And nobody asked me if I wanted to pay for that.
Does anyone remember "democracy?"
The rest of the $23 Million will come from federal government and corporate rentals.
Well, how much from the federal government? And isn't that your money and my money too?
We have abandoned our commitment to governance and we have allowed the bureaucrats and thieves to spend our money with casual disregard.
2 comments:
Taking back the purse-strings away from the monarch was the reason for the MAGNA CARTA and a citizen's parliament in the first place.
That Parliament then fomented another revolution against the crown's cavaliers arguing over that control over the public purse.
Time for history to rhyme yet again?
Add in another $50 million for security at these 3 sites. Raise hell. Go to a Council meeting and talk to silly Sam--who probably
won't understand.
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