Obama: U.S. would not spend $50 billion on Olympics

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/07/obama-u-s-would-not-spend-50-billion-on-olympics/



Obama: U.S. would not spend $50 billion on Olympics
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, February 7, 2014 15:03 EST

President Barack Obama said that the United States would not need to match the huge $50 billion shelled out by Russia if it wanted to host another Olympic Games.

The massive operation to transform the Black Sea resort of Sochi for the Winter Games, which opened on Friday, has been plagued by cost overruns and accusations of corruption and cronyism in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

But Obama said financial issues should not put Americans off from hosting more Games — partly because America would not need to splash so much cash.

“I am not sure that spending 50 billion dollars is necessary in order for us to be successful partly because the infrastructure that we already have in place probably would allow us to do it a little bit cheaper,” Obama said in an interview with NBC.



unhappycamper comment: You wouldn't spend $50 billion on an Olympics, but you have been spending $2 billion dollars a week occupying Afghanistan since you've been in office.

[dipsydoodle]

1. US needs that for for wars : not games.

Why waste money.

[madrchsod]

2. that`s about 10 million an hour....

http://nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/

my county has lost 110 million since the start of the iraq war.

[mucifer]

3. If the Olympics were in Chicago, I bet Rahm would nt.