Can any one name a team sport that doesn’t rape the taxpayer,including the NFL,NBA,MLB AN NCAA football and basketball?

All the unpopular ones.

I’ve gone to MLB games for the last couple years in STL, about 3.5 hours from my house for less than 200 dollars for 2 people, merchandise and food at the stadium may be expensive, but you don’t need to buy it there to enjoy the experience. With building new ballparks, you may say that MLB does the raping, but it is really local government looking to raise taxes for these things.

Recently, Indianapolis voted to close many libraries and other things in the city, while agreeing to give the Pacers 33.5 million dollars to keep them in town, I love the Pacers, but libraries are an investment in the future.

Except that the South African government isn’t a person. It’s an institution that depends, like all governments, on pilfering the money of its productive citizens in order to fund itself and grand bondoogle projects. I am not complaining about how a person spends his own money (although I think that in some circumstances, it’s perfectly acceptable to criticize people for how they spend their own money). I’m criticizing how a government chooses to frivolously spend the money it has pilfered from its own population, particularly when the country has other, quite pressing concerns.

“… and they even provided the local street vendors who’d been working the stadiums for decades with their own special zones, conveniently located nowhere near bothersome customers.”

Link via Huffpo,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/25/john-oliver-blows-a-vuvuz_n_625280.html

If your friend had an uneducated wife with HIV trying to put herself through school and ten children, six of whom were malnourished and undereducated, and he had to take out a second home equity line on his home to pay for his parties, then you might be on to an analogy.

Besides, it’s not like it’s real money. Just adjust interest rates and/or print more bills. Keynesian economics is too big to fail.

I suspect the political whores who sold this bill of goods (Bread and Circuses)to the Nation of S.A. did very well and the construction firms and their suppliers but that is a one time deal.

$6 billion is a lot of money. Wonder how much water could be purified for that or how much land could be cultivated for food or how many children could be educated as to develop the means of self sufficiency?

What it really says to the global elites is that this is another nation ripe for exploitation by crooked banksters, unsavory business characters and anyone else with no sense of priorities that put people first.

For ideological (spreading the wealth) and marketing (rewarding African fans) reasons, they wanted an African Cup. FIFA should have paid for the damn stadiums.

You would have to follow the money but 6 billion dollars went somewhere. I would figure the guys who built the stadiums and the guys who supplied the material for building the stadiums made out okay.

I got a kick out of the vuvuzela. Anytime I was watching one of the matches my wife would come through every time and say, what is that godawful racket? She couldn’t stand to stay in the room with it. I would like for it to catch on with college football. That way I could watch a game without her constantly interrupting with shit like “which curtain goes best with the dust ruffle?”