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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
That might be a useful comparison if those other things cost billions and billions of dollars.
The government sometimes spends $10 mil or $100 mil on things I don't like. So they may as well spend $6 billion* on something which would be kinda cool.
Such a terrible argument.
* I really do think some of this attitude is because people don't really have a concrete sense of the difference between $100 million and $6 billion. To use a graphical aid, $6 billion is:
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This attitude is what is wrong with the no crowd. Prior to 1988, Calgary was probably never considered a mecca for anything. Now we have one of the most world renowned Speed Skating Ovals in the world. Without the 88 Olympics that isn't possible and we wouldn't be getting the kickbacks on hotel and facility usage we've been getting for the past 30 years since. That's some of the intangible revenue that nobody considers when they hear 4-6 billion.
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