CoffeeCrew Blog: 2010 Olympic Rant #34 Vanoc to screw local Bus companies

2010 Olympic Rant #34 Vanoc to screw local Bus companies · 29.09.09 by colin newell

We all know that VANOC plans to run up a billion dollar tab on Olympic Security. I actually spoke with a fellow Amateur Radio Operator (I am VA7WWV) – who claims a friend of his is getting paid about $16,000 for his 16 day stint at the 2010 Jock Show.

Good work if you can get it. Where do I sign up?

B.C. bus companies say they’ve been shut out of the Olympic feeding frenzy, after failing to land transportation contracts for the 2010 Winter Games.

Try and imagine what that gold infused honey jar would be worth!

VANOC hired a Florida-based company called Gameday Management Group to take care of Olympic transportation, prompting some in the motor coach industry to criticize an apparent a pro-American bias.

No kidding sherlock.

“We’re hosting the games. It’s our taxpayer money being spent on this, so the local carriers should be given a fair shake,” said Brendan McCullough of McCullough Coach Lines in Victoria.

Wake up. The good folks of British Columbia are going to be screwed by this jock strap locust feast – and guess what, so are local and regional businesses.
Unless it has become patently obvious by now, the 2010 Olympic games is staged entirely at a cost to the regional taxpayers for the sole profit of foreigners – a private royal party of you would – paid for by you for the amusement of the blue blood few.

Personally, I plan to put as much distance between the Olympic shame and my person – but I do expect lots and lots of protest on the streets of Vancouver, tear gas, rubber bullets, arrests of locals, and more deep shame.

It is times like this that I am embarrassed to be a British Columbian – to be part of this hideous, shameful and corrupt mess, knowing full well that the financial hang over will be years long – and we will never atone for the vulnerable in this Province who will be victimized by all the cuts to fund this joke.

So angry. So done with this topic.

British Columbia’s public car insurer (ICBC) is bracing for higher crash costs when the Winter Olympics come to Vancouver, and that could mean drivers across the province will eventually have to pay higher premiums.
F*ck me. Who on Earth other than these F*cking VANOC and IOC blue-bloods will be driving in Vancouver and Whistler anyway? The number tossed around for the rest of us is a potential 30% increase on our premiums…
To pay for the 2010 f*ck fest no doubt.
…f*ck f*ck F*CK.

— Colin Sep 30, 10:40 pm #