Central and local governments make a frantic attempt to promote festivals to create a lot of revenue. Some people think this money should be invested in social programmes for the poor. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer.

Nowadays, many state-sponsored and privately-funded sports events and ceremonies like the Olympics or Hung Festival are rising, despite the fact that many low-income people lack basic access to healthcare and education. In my opinion, the weak parts of the population are those who should receive

such

investments to improve their welfare.

Firstly

, we are not capable of making sure that all government expenditure on those extravagant occasions is used wisely because clearly many great and huge events ended up leading to high debts and many abundant facilities.

For example

, Philippines citizens criticized their government for unprofessional organizing, meaningless and wasteful torch and more pointedly, high corruption in SEA Games 2019,

although

billions of dollars had been invested by the state. Many of them argue that all money should be used to improve their low-quality hospitals and school facilities.

Moreover

, we really need to be concerned about obesity

while

the rise of digital life in which people are so lazy in doing regular exercise. Easily

for example

, nearly 50% of Vietnamese teenagers,

according to

Zing Vn, got obese in a regular survey of the government and the most common reason accounting for that bad trajectory is the addiction to game shows and Football matches on their tablets.

Additionally

, many students are unable to finish their graduation just because of the high tuition fee so investing more in education must be our priority to solve both problems

instead

of spending too much on events. Personally, despite festivals are important parts of our life, we must prioritise the development of basic services for the poor.