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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
why shouldn't calgary pony up more cash, though? it's their event and they want all the benefits. why should it be alberta or the feds? heck, the IOC must see nobody wants to do the Olympics. they should cough up more cash too.
If the Olympics contain all the ongoing benefits for the city that the yes side keeps telling me, wouldn't another 300 million from the city be no big deal? or at least Calgary should guarantee to cover any overruns. that should be ok shouldn't it? I keep hearing they can do it on the 5.3 budget. put their money where their mouth is.
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We're going to. This is called 'Hard Ball.'
But if you just show up with cash flowing out of your pockets you're going to get taken to the cleaners. Furthermore the 'infrastructure' part of the ledger on this proposal has been ridiculously light.
We're not looking like we're going to make out like bandits here.
But you keep a tight lid on the finances otherwise they can easily spiral out of control.