Geehi said:Manpa said:I get some people dont like sport and the Olympics does that mean we shouldnt strive to have them in the Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. If that is the case, in simplistic terms please shut down all the funding to the arts as well as Im not into musical theatre, playhouses, cultural festivals etc.layful:
To suggest that opposition to the elite spend-fest that is the modern day Olympics is based purely on a dislike of sport is a very superficial analysis......and I use the word analysis loosely.
How about we spend the $10 billion (and rising) on mundane things like:
o cheaper tertiary education for our younger generations, in order to create our next generation of scientists and engineers
o replacement of our aging infrastructure like crapped-out coal power stations,
o improving an outdated and overloaded health system,
o creating the means to process and value-add to our abundant natural resources instead of shipping them overseas as boatloads of dirt
o completing our once held plan of having a fully fibre internet network
o strengthening and modernising our defence capabilities given the developing situations in our neighbourhood
You get the drift....feel free to add more to the list....it is almost inexhaustible.
Did you not see the smiley face, Im not going to bite to your post, you can come up with all the lists you like.
Go the Aussies!
