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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!aotearoa.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news-out1.kabelfoon.nl!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!bandi.nntp.kabelfoon.nl!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: 1.3 million potholes on UK roads! Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:52:14 -0000 References:   Lines: 30 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 981ada19.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=NU?Jlm<;BIX6GGoT]EbD@Wnok4Z\, mileburner@btinternet.com says... > > delboy wrote: > > Motorists contribute £45billion a year to the Treasury in various > > taxes and duties, but about only 10% of that figure is spent on roads > > and transport projects. The recent cold weather and ice have opened up > > many potholes in our poorly maintained roads. These affect cars - I > > have just knocked my steering out of line by hitting a particularly > > nasty pothole hidden under a puddle of water, and bikes. I can't > > really look where I am going because I am too busy looking at the road > > surface to avoid the potholes. > > > >  Makes you wonder what you pay taxes for, apart from > > MP's expenses, supporting failed banks who pay their staff huge > > salaries and bonuses, an army of civil service bureaucrats who also > > get bonuses, paying for illegal wars, etc, etc, that is.  > mode> > > You have answered your own question. > > Don't forget foreign aid, the NHS, welfare benefits, the police, and to > allow the local bureaucrats to piss away your money. And also to keep > freeloading scroungers like Medway comfortable in their retirement :-)

And don't forget that car-haters like mileburner like potholes because they "slow motorists down" (and never mind about them making the roads more dangerous for everyone: a central tenet of the car-haters' religion is that as long as something makes motorists suffer, it's fine, no matter what the adverse consequences to others).