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Originally Posted by chemgear
It's not a mistake. It's a calculated choice to "show the calculation" in that manner to make you vote "OMG YES"!
If you were to truly believe a 10:1 return on investment, or even your 4 times return on investment - the entire world would be smashing your door down for that kind of return. You, I and every market in the world would be maxing out our credit cards to get that.
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It's not as simple as the 10:1 is making it out to be but your analogy isn't quite apt either. The $4.3 billion is definitely a shot in the arm to the City. It's upgraded facilities and definitely represents new jobs across the City.
Are the jobs all for Calgarians? Definitely not. Are they all swiss ski judges or whatever Markusoff was going on about? No. It's somewhere in the middle.
This is the issue I have with both sides of this debate. They are both full of so much hyperbole that it's hard to discern the facts.
The no side and yes side thing is overplayed. I'm neither. I don't want to "Have a party and make everyone pay for it" it would just be nice to have the exaggeration turned down a notch so that we could have a legitimate discussion without either side frothing. And to be clear, I don't mean just here I'm talking about social media in general on this one.