In my personal opinion I don't think we need the Olympic games comming to calagry anytime soon . Our mayor has decided that it would really boost our economy, ha maybe for the month it's here . It will be 8 years of spending taxpayer money in order to get the games up and running and the economic returns will pale in comparison to the cost to the taxpayers .
The Olympics in 1988 here were a great idea to get calgary noticed on an international level . It was a city of 500 000 people back in 88 , but oil revenues were flowing faster than the pipelines could carry them . Calgary in recent years has seen economic downturn in many sectors . A 2026 Olympic bid will garentee that more money will have to be borrowed and paid back by the taxpayers .
Our mayor has suggested that this will be a great idea to boost our struggling economy . Where is the money going to come from dear mayor ? That's right from the already overwhelmed taxpayer. Is this Olympic bid all ego and no common sense. I definatly think it's more ego than brains but who am I to say anything .
The money needed to upgrade the existing infrastructure nessesary for the games will be astronomical in today's economy. We have a winter sports park with ski jumps that are almost condemned. We have a luge track that has not been serviced in 29 years , we have Olympic sized hockey rinks that have fell into disrepair. Oh where or where is the money for all these things gonna come from oh dear mayor .
As it has many times before , the Olympics has promised great profits and economic boosts to the cities making and winning these bids , however; when is the last time these piped reams have actually come to pass ? We would need more housing for athletes , more hotels for slack jawed gawkers, and an increased police force in order to keep all of the above save .
I truly believe that this is the wrong time to be thinking about an Olympic bid for our fair city . As a city we need to worry about many more important things first , such as , the homelessness problem in our downtown core , the lack of funding for schools in our once world renowned city , and more funding towards the stressed job market here . We need those things , however; our mayor thinks we need to sink billions into an Olympic ego trip .
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