{"id":66,"date":"2006-02-04T07:54:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T12:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2006-02-04T07:54:35","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T12:54:35","slug":"vancouver-games-heading-down-the-path-of-montreal-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Games Heading Down The Path Of Montreal Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again.  Vancouver Olympic costs are skyrocketing.  Not a week from the start of the Winter Games in Italy, our 2010 version is coming out with cost expectations and it isn&#8217;t looking good.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, the bid was expected to cost $470 Million.  Due to a booming Vancouver and global growth, the cost of materials and skilled labour have pushed that cost up to $580 Million.  Calgary in 1988 was a profitable Olympics, but it took Montreal 30 years to pay off the debt from the 1976 summer games.<\/p>\n<p>I am all for sport, but when costs go up 23% over the approved budget, bells should be going off for an audit or investigation on the costs.<\/p>\n<p>Officially Screwed Taxpayers&#8230;&#8230;again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again. Vancouver Olympic costs are skyrocketing. Not a week from the start of the Winter Games in Italy, our 2010 version is coming out with cost expectations and it isn&#8217;t looking good. In 2002, the bid was expected to cost $470 Million. Due to a booming Vancouver and global growth, the cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}