Martin Milner wrote:I don't like raining on the parade, but did anyone else watch the opening ceremony and wonder if the money would have been better spent on famine relief or cancer research?
Now really!
When, for the same money, you can:
- keep Tommies one more day in Iraq
- send up half a communication satellite just for more cell phones
- fund the pharmaceutical industry so it develops more GMO and cloning
- buy this whole extended community a full set of high-end whistles
- get Kerry the real budget needed to be elected
- print for each Greek a new free passport without religion mention
- make ISDN free to all Chiffers so we keep on rebuilding the world, but faster
- fill the TV with more, enlightening, reality shows and violent cartoons, instead of these stoopid adults wearing short pants and playing ball
- celebrate a Royal wedding (or Jubilee)
Feast for feast, TV-show for TV-show, unnecessary thing for another, some choose sports.
Maybe because it's not one OR the other. Just ask Kenyan, Ethiopian athletes, or those who survived a cancer.
Now, you say "just downplay the ceremony?". Right.
Did it occur to you that forbidding wedding dresses (and tall hats) would save even more money for famine relief , cancer research, etc. ?
PS: I wonder what costed more: the opening ceremony in Athens, or the recent thing in Lourdes...