In the argument that we should be using the funds to revive the economy, therefore we shouldn't go after the Olympics, I don't see it as an ether/or proposition. If we were to go forth with the Olympics, and get the funding for it, we still should be doing what we can to get the economy going again as well. It's not like with the money the governments would be investing, that there would be literally no money left to do anything else, and shut the country down for the next 8 years.
Sure the Olympics may not solve the problems of today, but it would benefit us in the meantime, and we'll still continue to work on a solution to make the city thrive again economically. We could've done both.
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