Police fining cyclists

pj ... warped value system and desires, a society that measures affluence on the size of your plasma TV, and not on the quality of the air that we breathe, or the schools our children attend, or the hospitals we die in...

On a side note I find this a interesting point. Nicolas Sarkozy is proposing that a new way to measure a countries growth not just based on the GDP is devloped. I like that idea, I think we (the uk) would come much lower down the list of countries if a this was the case.