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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I didn't say either of those things.
A lot of people that are against this deal are the same people that have made it clear, over and over, that they are against ANY deal. Most of the complaints are the same complaints we would hear, regardless of the details of the deal, as long as there was even a single dollar of public money involved. And a lot of people are trying to argue that the deal is paying for an NHL team, or has no benefit to the city - ridiculous. The public money is going to the development of the east village, to building an event centre for the city, and to upgrading the infrastructure in the area.
As for you, you have been banging that same, "where's the benefit" drum. And implying that hospitals aren't going to get built as a result. I am pretty sure that you are more reasonable than those comments would suggest.
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To the first bolded, it is. In what world do you believe it isn’t? None of the benefits (job opportunities, rivers district, even a place to hold major events/concerts/etc) are exclusive to having an NHL team involved, but giving them all the revenue from every event including events not-related to the NHL, AHL, or WHL seems pretty much like buying an NHL team, no?
To the second bolded, do you believe money is infinite? Did they announce an expansion to the Children’s Hospital with more free money at the same time and I just missed it? No, right?
It’s not that hospitals won’t get built, it’s that we had much more pressing needs than an arena that weren’t addressed, and instead of using all this “free money” to pay for that, we’ll all pay for it instead. I know not everyone is the best at budgeting, but using your savings on a new car when your roof is caving in and then justifying it by saying “hey, I already had money saved for the car” while you start saving to pay for the roof is just… I don’t know, bad? It’s being bad with money.
You can dress this deal up however you want but nobody can sit there and honestly say it was in the top five priorities nor a good deal. It’s just a typical silly arena deal that moves money going to one place to a new place. Woohoo.