Olympinomics

The Olympic stimulus spending does frustrate Britons who have been enduring Cameron?s austerity policies. Complaining about the hefty Olympic price tag in the New York Times Magazine, China Mieville wrote that ?in this time of ?austerity,? youth clubs and libraries are being shut down as expendable fripperies; this [Olympics] expenditure, though, is not negotiable.? If Britain weren?t on the hook for the Olympics, would Cameron have kept social welfare expenditures at higher levels, or would he have still pushed them down, without having the offsetting stimulus of the Olympics spending?

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