Romney excessive government spending on Olympics

My goodness, Romney either has a colossal amount of nerve, or is delusional, citing his business experience and oversight of the Olympics as proof of his competence, and that government is not needed to help private business.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/15/1110178/-Romney-s-Olympics

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A September 2000 report from the United States General Accounting Office tells us that tax payers paid nearly $1.3 billion for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. The majority of that, 80% of that, in fact, $1 billion of that, was spent not on the game themselves, but on infrastructure upgrades. With 51% going to improving highways and 28% to improve mass transit.

To put that into perspective, we, the taxpayers, spent roughly $75 million on the Los Angeles Olympics and $609 million on the Atlanta Olympics.

This prompted Senator John McCain to call the Salt Lake game a "pork-barrel" project.

“I think it is a disgrace,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who, along with U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., asked the government agency to investigate the escalating expenditures for hosting the Olympic games in American cities.“But this is a logical extension of what you get when you start pork-barrel spending.”

So, here is the question. Did any of that $1.3 billion of taxpayer's money go to benefit Romney or Bain?

We've been asking for tax returns, but how about a full disclosure of contracts related to the Salt Lake games?

In April 2012, Wayne Barrett at The Daily Beast exposed at least one shady dealing associated with the games. After Romney took over, after the bribery scandal was revealed, the SLOC awarded an exclusive contract for Olympic transportation to Jet Set Sports. The CEO of Jet Set Sports, Sead Dizdarevic, was at the center of the corruption scandal at the time. He is also one of Romney's biggest campaign contributors.