This is very good.

All the wrong people get rich from the WC and FIFA laughs very heartily all the way to the bank. The whole process of bidding and breaking your countries back to host these things is borderline ridiculous and the "privilege and gratitude" you're supposed to show because your corrupt politicians want to line their pockets is equally ridiculous.

Hosting these events should be put to public vote, I don't feel this is absurd, there are only two such events, the Olympics and the World Cup. The politicians should have to argue their case to why it would benefit the country, with an *actual* plan for trying to make good of it, not just claim "Oh trust me, this will be GREAT for the country"....based on? All the other failures? Sounds promising.

They should at least benefit from all the added infrastructure (roads, bridges, mass transit, etc) that was necessary to upgrade in order to host the games.

I don't understand why FIFA couldn't change the way the tournament is played and scheduled such that fewer stadiums are required... I could see needing to build 1 or 2 more stadiums, but why 12 (stadiums in Brazil for world cup 2014, 3 brand new, others renovated).

note: 30 billion brazilian reals = $13.76 billion usd

tl;dw

My understanding is that those infrastructure enhancements have been put on the back burner if not scrapped altogether. This, coupled with a bus fare hike (9 cents was enough) broke the camel's back.

I've never seen someone do this before on this site, or this particular poster for that matter. So kindly go fuck yourself.