I disagree. As a fiscal conservative I think it is great that Brazil has to spend those millions of dollars for setting up and hosting the Olympics and the continued expense of maintaining all of the built/renovated buildings and areas where the events are held. Look at the financial drain that hosting the Olympics creates (especially in the cases of Sydney and Montreal). Those places lose millions a year on upkeep. We're in the middle of recession. Why not use all of those funds and the savings we would've had had Obama not made this a personal mission to help continue funding unemployment or a public work or, I dunno, paying down our national debt rather than spend it in hopes of getting an event that will lead to MORE debt.
Just sayin'
