-=> alexander koryagin wrote to Flavio Bessa <=-   
      
    ak>> Oh, dear me! Is it 710 billion dollars indeed?   
      
    FB> In a few calculation exercises, it could reach the 1 trillion   
    FB> barrier. :)   
      
    ak> I hope the horse will bump against this barrier and fall. ;-)   
      
   	I don't know about the horse, but the president already    
   	bumped the barrier and was replaced :)    
      
    ak> Of course it would be good if the games will bring something to the   
    ak> common people. Although, IMHO, the professional sport is a perversion   
    ak> for a human, and all those monstrous buildings are useless for the   
    ak> common people. It will be better to build small playgrounds near every   
    ak> house, and make bicycle paths everywhere around the city. In my town,   
    ak> for instance, the town's crazy authority had spent a lot of money to   
    ak> make high edges of pavement on all the roads and streets. When I go on   
    ak> my bike in my small town now I really run risks because I can't turn   
    ak> off the road when big trucks go by.   
      
   	I agree with you. At least in the paper the plan for life after    
   	the Games is nice, but only time will tell. Here life is coming    
   	back to normality.   
      
    FB> Big issue, as you pointed out, will be the debt. We spent a huge   
    FB> amount of money building useless stadiums for the World Cup and for   
    FB> all the Olympic works, and this contributed heavily for the debt   
    FB> increase.   
      
    ak> We have the same in Russia. Putin has ordered to build huge football   
    ak> stadiums for the football world cap in 2018. We could easily fly on   
    ak> Mars instead. ;-) But the crowd want bread and circuses.   
      
   	Yes, here in Brazil the World Cup ended up with stadiums being    
   	built into places with very little or no football tradition at    
   	all, and are slowly converting into white elephants.    
      
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