HEROES REALLY ARE CHEAP

America loves to spend its hard earned money on sports stars but it is a waste. The average sports professional in the NBA alone makes 5 million dollars a year and for what? Where does this money come from? Of course you and I pay these people their wages even in these tough times.  This should be no surprise to most of this blog's readers. With that being said I ask you to think who was the highest paid US athlete for fiscal year 2012?

If you guessed Floyd Maywether JR at 85 million dollars you would be right. So what do we get for investing large amounts of money on this talent? We get a rap sheet including 5 different domestic battery charges in which four victims were women. Please be my guest and view Floyd’s record on the following page link-  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Mayweather,_Jr.

If you are a parent consider never allowing your children access to anything this thug is involved in. However, as alarming as Mayweather’s actions are, our poor investment choices go on from there. Since 1985 sports teams have been building new stadiums across our vast country. How do they afford this massive expense? I will tell you that taxpayers cover most the costs and have spent around 4 billion dollars to finance our sports team’s new stadium addiction. Owners have figured out all they need to do is threaten a city with relocating and the saps (you and I) will pay the extra tax. Read this interesting article about stadium spending- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-05/in-stadium-building-spree-u-s-taxpayers-lose-4-billion.html

I am not saying Americans can’t enjoy sports but why at such a high cost? Keep in mind the real heroes like teachers average 50,000 dollars a year in 2011. Now who has a greater impact and vested interest your child’s future; Johnny Sports stud making  5 million per year who couldn’t care one bit about what is going to happen to our youth or that teacher at your kids school making ends barely meet but cares so much about the future of our children? So I will ask again, why spend 4 billion on stadiums and 85 million on women beaters? Just another Opportunity lost…………..

Here are some additional sources for this blog-

Mayweather money earned in fiscal 2012- http://www.therichest.org/sports/forbes-highest-paid-athletes/
Salaries in pro sports- http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ycn-10423863