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JEMC on 20 August 2011

Joelcool7 said:

As for profit margins. Pilgrims spending under 250 Euro's each in six days is insane. A hostel would cost more then 40 Euro's a day to stay in. Let alone a hotel. What is someone suggesting all 1.5-million pilgrims are staying on the streets or with family, then they are also not buying food , souvineers or other things. Please 100-million Euro's is unbelievably low. If it was that cheep to stay in Spain heck I should go their for vacation next week thats cheaper then me visiting Seattle which is only 3 hours away. A five day visit is costing me over 700$.

Ok. I didn't say that all of them would sleep on the streets, but a lot of them will, and I know because I've seen them going to Madrid (I'm in Barcelona) and lots of them had a sleeping bag, suggesting that they will sleep in the outside.

Besides they are the kind of tourists that are called "turistas de mochila", which are the turists that spend as less money as possible. They are the ones that use  public transport, that sleep in parks or cheap hostels (and they can be very cheap) and didn't spend money on restaurants as they buy food in supermarkets.

For this things, plus the fact that they are coming to assist to a catholic event where lots of them come just to see the Pope, so not the kind of event or people with party nights and alcohol, and that those 1.5 million pilgrims include people from locations of Spain too, those 100 million € in total are very reasonable.



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Galaki on 20 August 2011

Can't they just send the youths to the Pope instead? That should be cheaper than hosting the event locally.
Or get the parents to foot the bills.



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sapphi_snake on 20 August 2011
Joelcool7 said:

 

#3. No country can ever have too much tourism. More tourist dollars is always good for every country and global economy. A country with over 40% of youth unemployed needs every dime it can get. More tourist dollars means more money for the economy.

#4. Umm yah you see its beneficial for the Government to have the pope visit their country. Now I know the bulk of the money the Government is spending is on security. Security escorts for the Pope is likely but you see the Pope Mobile is custom made and the Pope always travels in it. As for him staying in a hotel, if that is the best way to ensure his safety and the safety of the people of Spain then its the Government's duty to protect its people and a foreign dignitary. If Prime Minister Harper or President Obama visited they would recieve similiar accomodations. This guy represents like one fourth of the worlds population. Far more influential then the President of the US or Prime Ministers of Canada or Britain.

As for profit margins. Pilgrims spending under 250 Euro's each in six days is insane. A hostel would cost more then 40 Euro's a day to stay in. Let alone a hotel. What is someone suggesting all 1.5-million pilgrims are staying on the streets or with family, then they are also not buying food , souvineers or other things. Please 100-million Euro's is unbelievably low. If it was that cheep to stay in Spain heck I should go their for vacation next week thats cheaper then me visiting Seattle which is only 3 hours away. A five day visit is costing me over 700$.

Again Sapphi what the heck are you suggesting? Saying I'm Catholic dude you gotta read what I say more especially if your going to back up an outlandish statement like that!

Read JEMC said. These pilgrims are not bringing in enough money to justify funding this event.



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sapphi_snake on 20 August 2011
Galaki said:
Can't they just send the youths to the Pope instead? That should be cheaper than hosting the event locally.
Or get the parents to foot the bills.

We should also provide condoms if we're sending the youths to visit the Pope. Oh wait, the Pope thinks those are a big no no. Now we know why.



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Kynes on 20 August 2011
sapphi_snake said:
Joelcool7 said:

 

#3. No country can ever have too much tourism. More tourist dollars is always good for every country and global economy. A country with over 40% of youth unemployed needs every dime it can get. More tourist dollars means more money for the economy.

#4. Umm yah you see its beneficial for the Government to have the pope visit their country. Now I know the bulk of the money the Government is spending is on security. Security escorts for the Pope is likely but you see the Pope Mobile is custom made and the Pope always travels in it. As for him staying in a hotel, if that is the best way to ensure his safety and the safety of the people of Spain then its the Government's duty to protect its people and a foreign dignitary. If Prime Minister Harper or President Obama visited they would recieve similiar accomodations. This guy represents like one fourth of the worlds population. Far more influential then the President of the US or Prime Ministers of Canada or Britain.

As for profit margins. Pilgrims spending under 250 Euro's each in six days is insane. A hostel would cost more then 40 Euro's a day to stay in. Let alone a hotel. What is someone suggesting all 1.5-million pilgrims are staying on the streets or with family, then they are also not buying food , souvineers or other things. Please 100-million Euro's is unbelievably low. If it was that cheep to stay in Spain heck I should go their for vacation next week thats cheaper then me visiting Seattle which is only 3 hours away. A five day visit is costing me over 700$.

Again Sapphi what the heck are you suggesting? Saying I'm Catholic dude you gotta read what I say more especially if your going to back up an outlandish statement like that!

Read JEMC said. These pilgrims are not bringing in enough money to justify funding this event.


http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/08/19/espana/1313758091.html

JEMC can say whatever he wants, but the government spokesperson said just yesterday "the economic benefits of this event aren't a faith question, they are a fact and we value them positively". This government (socialist party) that has as some of their main political actions the gay marriage, the free abortion or the euthanasia, so you can't say they are biased in favor of Cristianism.



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sapphi_snake on 21 August 2011
Kynes said:
sapphi_snake said:
Joelcool7 said:

 

#3. No country can ever have too much tourism. More tourist dollars is always good for every country and global economy. A country with over 40% of youth unemployed needs every dime it can get. More tourist dollars means more money for the economy.

#4. Umm yah you see its beneficial for the Government to have the pope visit their country. Now I know the bulk of the money the Government is spending is on security. Security escorts for the Pope is likely but you see the Pope Mobile is custom made and the Pope always travels in it. As for him staying in a hotel, if that is the best way to ensure his safety and the safety of the people of Spain then its the Government's duty to protect its people and a foreign dignitary. If Prime Minister Harper or President Obama visited they would recieve similiar accomodations. This guy represents like one fourth of the worlds population. Far more influential then the President of the US or Prime Ministers of Canada or Britain.

As for profit margins. Pilgrims spending under 250 Euro's each in six days is insane. A hostel would cost more then 40 Euro's a day to stay in. Let alone a hotel. What is someone suggesting all 1.5-million pilgrims are staying on the streets or with family, then they are also not buying food , souvineers or other things. Please 100-million Euro's is unbelievably low. If it was that cheep to stay in Spain heck I should go their for vacation next week thats cheaper then me visiting Seattle which is only 3 hours away. A five day visit is costing me over 700$.

Again Sapphi what the heck are you suggesting? Saying I'm Catholic dude you gotta read what I say more especially if your going to back up an outlandish statement like that!

Read JEMC said. These pilgrims are not bringing in enough money to justify funding this event.


http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/08/19/espana/1313758091.html

JEMC can say whatever he wants, but the government spokesperson said just yesterday "the economic benefits of this event aren't a faith question, they are a fact and we value them positively". This government (socialist party) that has as some of their main political actions the gay marriage, the free abortion or the euthanasia, so you can't say they are biased in favor of Cristianism.

The 'economic benefits' are greatly exaggerated, as JEMC has showed. This is just politicians having no balls and pandering to the religious.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 21 August 2011

So he was just a PDF troll? No, not PDF as the file format, Pope Defence Force.



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