Oh Lordy
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Youâre starting to lose the plot here, I rarely cycle but I can recognise the issues that cyclists have with the infrastructure provided for them
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Roads. Roads are provided for them.
They should learn how to use them, get licensed and pay for them before they go and look for public sympathy
No, Iâm using the crude reductionism of your âargumentâ to ridicule it
These other issues will always exist to a greater or lesser degree
So based on that, itâs a carte blanche to never, ever improve cycling infrastructure in Ireland, which is obviously what you want
Are you angry about the greenways that already exist?
Are you angry about the few SEGREGATED cycle lanes that alredy exist?
What funding should, say, the arts get?
Total public funding for the arts in 2020 is set for âŹ193m
How about the âŹ31.8m earmarked for sport
I presume you think this should be âŹ0
Why should any public funds be provided for road building and maintenance?
The country has other, bigger problems
Look mate you have roads*, learn how to use them and stop looking for public sympathy
*also applicable for hospitals, schools, airports etc.
Iâd much rather my income tax be spent on feeding a starving family than fixing a pothole on the road. Wouldnât you?
Oh wait, you donât pay income tax, do you?
Sport should be 0 while there are people starving on the streets.
Weâve made a massive roi on sports havenât we.
Put the bottle away for tonight pal
Put the ad hominem attacks away for the night, will you, pal?
So far weâve got sports and recreation over homelessness and hungry people.
What else have you got?
Ok, but it was you who introduced that line of argument in the first place. And youâve utterly lost the run of yourself ever since. I think a weekend away at a spa resort might work wonders for you brother. I recommend full body
It depends how you measure the return
Iâd measure the return in terms of it encouraging children and adults to participate in sport for fun and to get and stay healthy, thus relieving the pressure on our health services
Participating in sport at a recreational level also assists in forming human relationships and makes for more rounded human beings
This relieves the pressure on mental health services and addiction services
Your argument that all funding for everything else should be stopped until there are no people living on the streets is ludicrous
Itâs like when some eejit argued that funding for road safety should be abandoned because there is a suicide problem
Setting things up in oppisition to each other is the argument of the simpleton
You introduced the sporting budget against the starving homeless people argument you simpleton
That wasnât the question I asked
I donât pay income tax, but I do pay tax and I save the exchequer a lot of money on what would otherwise be the very significant cost of full time care
I know you have no regard for carers, but sure whatâs new
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I think money should be spent on feeding starving people before where people get to ride their bicycles and you think Iâm fucked up. Really?
Yeah but Iâm not suggesting cutting the sporting budget to zero
You are, because youâre furiously digging in to try and defend a completely ludicrous argument you know full well is ludicrous because youâre afraid your INTERNET persona will lose some face on a niche forum very few people read if you acknowledge that ludicrousness
Hypothetical scenario, money is taken away from disability to pay for cycle lanes. Whoâs happy? Prioritize your issues.
Why have you completely ruled out the possibility that those things can be done simultaneously
I donât think you understand how the concept of tax and public spending works
I think they canât be done simultaneously because they havenât been done simultaneously.
Why do you think they can?