Little Money And Even Less Snow: Vancouver 2010 Could Be A Disaster
The 2010 Olympic Games are just a little more than two weeks away, and everyone is starting to really get excited, especially the host city, Vancouver, where the Olympic fever is spreading like, well, a fever. In the sense that everyone is already sick of them. And as the Games draw closer, Vancouver’s attitude toward them continues to worsen.
So not only will the games cost more than originally planned (a lot more), but now it’s expected that they will bring in $9 billion less to the city of Vancouver. And this all comes at the same time that the city had to cut 800 teacher’s jobs. Why? Because of a lack of funding. What options do Vancouver residents have? Not many, besides taking to the streets.
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