Are We Surprised?

This is a photo of an Inukshuk, an Eskimo rendering of a standing man. It is the official symbol of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. These Olympics, along with the recent spate of gang related shootings, is all we hear about recently. The cost over runs were expected by all but the most naive, and now, today (I am writing this on March 4), comes this headline: "Provincial government says recession having an impact on 2010 games; games may not provide much talked about ten billion dollar bonanza."
DUH!! Who figured this out? The same guy who is predicting that the sun is going to come up tomorrow? We (citizens of BC) are going to be paying for this for generations to come. I have said for years that the Olympics have run their course and pity on the poor country that gets them. It has become a simple competition to see who can saddle their citizens with the most amount of debt in the most opulent and wasteful way. In a time of recession/depression, you can double that.