The Olympics have been causing several problems in recent and not so recent years, putting many countries and cities into financial debt. To stop this we must put permanent sites on our building list for the Olympics and keep those the few things on that list.
Over the years the Olympics have been hosted we are shockingly finding that each year those hosting cities will spend billions of dollars on unnecessary things, such as facilities and equipment. The host for the 2016 games, Brazil, has been sliding into what it is calling a “financial calamity” and the games still went on. They spent hundred of thousands of dollars on a unneeded security force of 85,000 soldiers. All that money wasted when it would be put to better use for affordable housing and clean water. Their game’s final price tag was estimated to be over 20 billion dollars. Fernando Meirelles says that “We are in a moment in the world where we need to be wise with our money, is it really worth spending billions on a show?” His point is that cities spend billions of dollars they didn’t have. Unfortunately, the spending continues …show more content…
But the way the most recent olympics have said about the host countries is that they are proud to make history and show national pride about weakening their economies with wasting billions of dollars buying stadiums and equipment for the olympics. During the Berlin 1936 olympics, Adolf Hitler planned to show the world that the Aryan people, meaning whites of European ancestry, were the dominate race. Jesse Owens, and African-American, proved him wrong by becoming the most successful athlete of those games. Now the fact that Owens did this in Berlin made more meaning to his achievements, but he could have done that anywhere and Hitler would still have felt just as equally
Over the years the Olympics have been hosted we are shockingly finding that each year those hosting cities will spend billions of dollars on unnecessary things, such as facilities and equipment. The host for the 2016 games, Brazil, has been sliding into what it is calling a “financial calamity” and the games still went on. They spent hundred of thousands of dollars on a unneeded security force of 85,000 soldiers. All that money wasted when it would be put to better use for affordable housing and clean water. Their game’s final price tag was estimated to be over 20 billion dollars. Fernando Meirelles says that “We are in a moment in the world where we need to be wise with our money, is it really worth spending billions on a show?” His point is that cities spend billions of dollars they didn’t have. Unfortunately, the spending continues …show more content…
But the way the most recent olympics have said about the host countries is that they are proud to make history and show national pride about weakening their economies with wasting billions of dollars buying stadiums and equipment for the olympics. During the Berlin 1936 olympics, Adolf Hitler planned to show the world that the Aryan people, meaning whites of European ancestry, were the dominate race. Jesse Owens, and African-American, proved him wrong by becoming the most successful athlete of those games. Now the fact that Owens did this in Berlin made more meaning to his achievements, but he could have done that anywhere and Hitler would still have felt just as equally