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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

I'm glad you find winter sports like speedskating and ski jumping so incredibly gratifying. Me, I'm more of an education, roads, and health care kinda guy.

It's probably a good idea at this point to explain my stance towards the future of public services and spending. Given the demographic waterfall Canada is poised to plunge over, along with the relentless erosion of the middle class and the threat of automation destroying whole sectors of the economy, I have serious doubts about the long-term solvency of our government balance sheets. I think in 20 to 30 years our revenues may be so depleted, and the demands on our pensions and health care so high, that we may be forced to simultaneously make deep cuts to pensions, education, and health care, while steeply ramping up taxes to pay for them. Alternatively, the wealthiest 20 per cent may simply cut the rest of society loose and live in privatized enclaves.

So that's the context of my opposition to spending billions on a winter sports party.