To the editor: Mayor Karen Bass mentions the “hundreds of thousands who will go to” for the 2028 Olympics (“Bass preaches ‘unity’ in L.A. forward of 2028 Olympics throughout State of the Metropolis handle,” Feb. 2). Actually? Bass apparently lives in a dream world. Does she actually suppose that hundreds of thousands of individuals from different international locations will come to see the 2028 Olympics? Given the propensity of the ICE brokers to arrest seemingly anybody for any cause (or for no cause in any respect), why would anybody from one other nation need to come right here?
Let’s simply scratch the 2028 Los Angeles Video games, interval. Finish of story. If one other nation needs to step in and host them, wonderful. Since two years most likely isn’t sufficient time for an additional nation to organize, possibly simply scrap the 2028 Video games fully and take a look at once more in 2032. Hopefully then, issues can be again to some form of regular.
Jay James, Pico Rivera
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To the editor: On daily basis, we examine squandered cash in our metropolis. It’s not assured we may have a surplus from 2028. Sochi, Rio, Tokyo (2021), Vancouver, Turin, Athens and Sydney all confronted big monetary challenges. Primarily based on all of the dangerous publicity about our nation, I don’t suppose an Olympics will encourage guests to really feel protected right here. President Trump will seize all of the glory.
In the meantime, the county is reducing $200 million from homeless companies (“L.A. County cuts almost $200 million in homeless companies to shut price range hole,” Feb. 3). Didn’t we go huge taxpayer help to deal with this? We don’t should host the FIFA World Cup or Olympics till we get our personal act collectively.
Ann Moore, Los Angeles
