“The National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, has only one event scheduled for this year: a performance of the opera “Turandot” on Aug. 8, the one-year anniversary of the Olympic opening ceremony. China's leading soccer club backed out of a deal to play there, saying it would be an embarrassment to use a 91,000-seat stadium for games that ordinarily attract only 10,000 spectators.
The venue, which costs $9 million a year to maintain, is expected to be turned into a shopping mall in several years, its owners announced last month.”
Ah, the brilliance of central planning.
I wish our government would just try it once. You mean we’ve been doing it for decades. You mean that is why our economy is tanking.
Who woulda thought that?
That's not necessarily a bad thing. It may turn out to be a good investment.