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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
People are so weird when it comes to this stuff. A few years ago we found out that the federal government couldn't account for 20,000 projects and double digit billions of taxpayer money that just went up in smoke and it's barely a blip on the radar for the average Canadian. The province and the city kick in a hundreds of millions for a project that Calgarians will absolutely be able to see and use whether it be for sports, music, stampede, etc and people get all angry like that money came right out of their personal bank accounts. People need to realize that even if they don't plan on using the facilities, at least there's tangible evidence of taxpayer money spent as there's a good chance if used for something else we will never see any evidence of it being spent.
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You think it's weird that people are not happy about corporate wellfare for billionaires? While food inflation is at an all time high? Try harder and I'm sure you'll understand. I'm not asking you to agree. But maybe try harder to understand. It really isn't a big mystery