Buzzfeed has a great photo essay up of Greek ruins. Sadly, these
ruins are from
the 2004 Olympic Games. Just a decade ago, Greece spent a ton
of money it didn’t have after winning the right to help bankrupt
itself by hosting the Olympic Games.
“The 2004 Games became the most expensive there had ever
been after the original budget doubled to around £7 billion,”
writes Richard James. Pyrros Dima, a weightlifter turned
politician, says “We spent a lot of money for some
projects [that] are shut and rotting. There were projects that
should have cost two and three million [euros] and suddenly became
so big that they cost 13 and 14 million. There was no
control.”
Check out the
whole pantheon here.
With Greek’s example in mind, consider anew the future
ruin that is
a new, taxpayer-funded stadium for the NHL’s Detroit Red
Wings:
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