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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 983642" data-attributes="member: 264">To answer Mark's question, I'm sickened by Vancouver's "winning" The Olympics.Our Provincial government has cried poor ever since they came into office, cutting education (though they claimed they wouldn't) cutting healthcare (though they claimed they wouldn't) and cutting taxes to the rich (while running up the largest deficit in our provinces history--the very issue they came into power opposing)They have cut funding to every single facet of our Province that doesn't benefit rich, fatcat, real estate developers 9which is the background from which the current governement draws it's membership).Yet after cutting Education, Health Care, Unemployment Insurance, Pensions for the elderly, tearing up binding contracts with unions, privatizing everyting from toll freeways that were supposed to be toll-free after they had paid for themselves, privatizing health care services and just a host of other crap....they manage to come up with 400 million dollars to aid in the frickin' Olympic bid...largely because it will require a new freeway to be built from the city to the chi-chi ski resort.Yay Olympics. I almost welcome terrorism.</blockquote>