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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Or think of it as taking $1.5 billion worth of security guards, police, and army reservists away from the work they are doing now, and making them stand guard over the IOC and its minions while the general public is less protected than usual.
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Well yeah. I was making light of previous justifications for security spending.
There's no way a modern games can break even the way Calgary '88 did, just because of the enormous security costs alone. That's money that even the most dodgy accounting can't put into the credit column.