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Originally Posted by taz
The "spoilt brat" tennis players will earn millions whether the matches are here, Sydney or Beijing. At least if the open has to be here it brings a lot of money to Victoria through the visitors that come here to watch it. I've only lived in VIC for a few years and have plenty of friends interstate over the years whose only reason for coming to VIC is to got the Tennis, Grand Prix or Melbourne Cup. And believe me they've spent a lot of money on those visits. Agreed it may not have helped those waiting for medical treatment, but at least if the decision was made some locals have benefitted.
And for us tennis fans, we have a great tournament to watch!  |
It brings a lot of money for who in Victoria?
I have never seen visitors to the tennis, golf, Grand Prix, etc handing out cash to homeless people. I personally have yet to be handed any money from the government funding any event that my taxes have gone towards funding and running. The Commonwelth games for example, cost enough to build 8 hospitals around the state, so they could have Uncle McGillicuddys Oats sponsored homosexual drug cheats swim in front of a camera for what... two damn weeks! Yep, sport is the saviour of the masses....
Meanwhile the Public schools are delapidated dumps, the reservoirs are nearly empty, the roads are pot holed goat tracks, or choked with tolls on them what? Sport as a substitute for infrastructure?
The only Victorians who benefit finacially from millionaire spoilt brat competitions are the caterers, who hire 16 year old kids for $5 an hour to charge $8 for a cold bucket of chips, and the likes of Conrad Hilton, Qantas, and all the others leeches.
I'll also mention the biggest winners are commercial television stations. They get money from advertisers to show their adds through an event the public has paid to fund and run, so the likes of the media moguls can make a prime time fortune, that they didn't have to outlay one cent to get! What a stooge for the tax payer. And in any event, if the poor old TV station has to fork out some cash to broadcast the event, they then get to claim that on there tax anyway! Money for nothing for the rich, and the poor bloody tax payer pays for it!
Nothing has changed much since Caesar built the Coluseum in AD50. Bread and Circus's, that's all it is.
If it has a ball in it, you have better things to do with your life.
...just looking for a good match though!
