Why do the rich sports owners and atheletes get richer and the poor suffer?

[jedipoodoo547]

How come owners get financing for new stadiums to be built with taxpayers money, while we can't even feed people in our own neighborhoods who are poor? What is wrong with this picture? In the U.S.A. we always have enough money to build new sports stadiums, but the neighborhoods suffer. Granted, the stadiums, parking, etc creates revenue for the cities, but where is it all going?

Also, why do we only address the hunger problem around the holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas? What, people don't exist any other time of the year and we only have to think of others and be nice twice a year? :pshh:

[Wasabi]

Because Capitalism keeps the middle man happy, and Communism doesn't work.

[TheTaxidermist]

I'll tell you why, because if you give too much, people become dependent on you. I hate to sound insensitive but it's true. They have programs for poor people already. Ever heard of WIC?

[Sersoft.corp]

Why do the rich sports owners and atheletes get richer and the poor suffer?

Cuz we suck at sports?

[Manbearpig]

Because the govt. is fat, incompetent and corrupt. That people are stupid and I'm starting to think people don't deserve aid anymore.
note: My cyncism is acting up.

[rtanger]

A stadium is supposed to be a boon to a local economy, they build the stadiums as an investment using taxpayer money in the hopes that it will help vitalize the economy and eventually add more back to the coffers through taxes on ticket sales and other stadium income than it originally cost to build. In the end, it's to be for the benefit of every taxpayer. Er, ideally.

[Psyborg]

Because poor people deserve to suffer, because they're LAZY. [/18thcenturyviewpoint]

[Manbearpig]

Myes, and they get their poor house stench on my piles of money whilst I listen to my electric music maker on my hot air balloon. (18th century view point to the max.)

[Psyborg]

Right, because the Charleston is totally an 18th century thing.

[rtanger]

A couple centuries early, it would seem.
But that's not really here or there. The Charleston and/or what century it would be performed in couldn't have less to do with the topic at hand.

[Brendon]

Don't forget that when they build the new stadiums, often times they take out a huge chunk of housing and buildings to make room. I know when they were building Staples Center they took out a HUGE group of low-low medium income housing apartments. Suddenly you have a few thousand people who have no home, can't afford a pricier rent or buying one in the LA area, and are forced to move out.