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Old 08-13-2008, 02:56 PM   #228
JayP
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Originally Posted by Ruttiger View Post
Wow - that's pretty harsh. At the risk of coming off as a jerk, exactly how many of your tax dollars do you think have actually gone to Brent Hayden, Mike Brown, David Ford, etc.? A couple, maybe? Do you seriously feel they should be competing in the hopes of winning to repay you Jiri Hrdina, or me, or anyone else here specifically? Get over yourself.
It's kinda funny if you do the math. It was said earlier that Canada's combined Olympic funding is $40 million. Based on the fact that winter Olympics get more funding let's say the summer athletes get $15 million of that. With a population of 33 million and let's say 75% of that are paying taxes (~25 million). So essentially of that $15 million of funding each of us is providing a whopping 60 cents.

That's surely enough to expect dominance, right?
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