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By myrcurial (registered) - website | Posted January 11, 2011 at 12:17:45
@Zephyr
If you're going to get angry about taxpayer mega-bucks being spent or misappropriated foolishly, I give you Skydome and the 407 to rant about first, and then I'd encourage you to rant about every other dollar spent by Greatest Generation and Boomers in Hamilton over the last 40 years. Then you can rant about the G20 summit and when you're done with that, you can get all up in arms about the latest.
The Future Fund money is going to get spent on things that are not of import or interest to GenX and younger (ie: the future)... that's the way of it. We've entered the first period of human history where the demographics are well and truly upside-down and the same people (Boomers and Greatest) who've been mortgaging the future are STILL making the decisions on how things shall be. There's effectively nothing that can be done about it -- we don't have the votes necessary to out-democratize the seniors -- even if we all came out to vote (which we generally speaking don't).
My generation and the already completely impoverished generation spawned by Xers like me don't have much of a choice but to accept that we're going to get half-assed spending like this and we need to find a way to be at least content with 'half-assed' because at least having a stadium that is NOT a 'suburban destination' is 1,000,000x better than what could've happened.
When life gives you lemons, you can either suck a lemon and make the face that you and Andrea have, or you can make lemonade and sell it to people walking to the stadium enjoying a neighborhood that has just a little more pride in itself than it did yesterday when it was trying to figure out how to take the latest in a long series of kicks-in-the-ass.
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