Article: Today better than yesterday

Government says the lasting legacy that the 2010 football spectacle has left shows that "today is already better than yesterday."
 
The Source said:
I still think this world cup was a big waste of taxpayers money. Why didnt they spend it on building schools and roads? We, the taxpayer have to pay for these extravagant new stadiums that no one will ever use.
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As if you paying for it makes a difference whether they were built or not.
 
The Source said:
I still think this world cup was a big waste of taxpayers money. Why didnt they spend it on building schools and roads? We, the taxpayer have to pay for these extravagant new stadiums that no one will ever use.
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Same goes for the Gautrain.

Why not just use the money to beef up the already existing infrastructure, instead of building new buidlings/railways? :rolleyes:
 
I am Penguin said:
Depends how/what we look at.

Only today I see the crime reports spiraling.
Boy 18 assaulted in his own garden
Etc, etc.

So here on the ground it's bossiness as usual, murders, crime, racist Xenophobia, etc. There on top in lala land, where euphoria still reign wild, the senses are still numbed!
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I think your glass half empty view doesn't help much. It's good to keep realistic but if you wake up thinking God I hate this place, then you should do something about it.
 
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The Source said:
I still think this world cup was a big waste of taxpayers money. Why didnt they spend it on building schools and roads? We, the taxpayer have to pay for these extravagant new stadiums that no one will ever use.
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Doesn't work like that, If we hadn't won the world cup bid, the government won't say, oh look we saved R20 billion (or however much) lets spend it on something else, the world cup didn't divert funding from other projects. I remember there was an article stating that, point is, if the world cup didnt happen, we wouldn't have any more houses,schools etc than we do now, in fact it is because of the world cup that we have new airports, transport interchanges etc and avoided the worst of the recession, the benefits of the world cup are far greater than spending that money on houses etc, it's just harder to see.
 
Our country is a strange one indeed. We marvel and relish opportunities that unite us, but it NEVER lasts. All it takes is ONE event that has the potential to polarise us, and what happens? The damn politicians and wannabe politicians come in and capitalise (or rather thats what they think they are doing), and drive big ol wedge between different sectors of this country.

You just watch, just one case of a murder of a white family, and the likes of Afriforum, are going to kick up a storm. Or one black person gets killed by a farmer under questionable circumstances, and the likes of ANCYL, will cause havoc. Its a cycle we will live with for at LEAST a couple of generations. We were naive to think that things can change dramatically for the better in little more than 20 years...
 
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