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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Maybe we can get TSN and SN to pan their camera's over our state of the art $250 million library instead of Mcmahon and the Saddledome during games, hell lets get a camera inside and see the crowd of 30 or 40 people. that'll show the rest of the country that we're world class! 
Seriously, did $250m tax dollars need to be spent on something that 99% of us who paid for it will never see the inside of? including schools there's probably over 200 libraries in this city already, this is the biggest waste of tax dollars since the piece bridge and the dumbest idea since the great blue ring.
I'm totally against the CalgaryNext project but mostly because that location stinks not because we don't need new arena's. Our arena's are becoming worn out and decrepit, it's bad enough our pro sports teams play in junk (especially the stamps) compared to other city's but it's a total embarrassment a town of 28,000 people to the south of us kills us for a baseball park and a field house.
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The library argument has already been covered in the last 5 or 6 pages. I can't think of a better response than what GordonBlue and Table 5 already said:
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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
bring it up again when the library is privately owned, you have to pay huge sums to get in, you have to pay to read each book you want, and the librarians make 5 million a year.
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Originally Posted by Table 5
People who equate public libraries with private sports arenas tend to come across as the the types of individuals who may benefit from visiting the former a bit more often.
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