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"A cyclist is a disaster for the country's economy: he doesn't buy cars or borrow money to buy them with; he doesn't pay insurance policies, he doesn't buy fuel, doesn't need money to get the car serviced and repaired. He does not use paid parking. He does not cause serious accidents. No multi-lane highways are required and he does not get fat.
Runners are even worse - they don't even buy a bike!

Healthy people are neither necessary nor useful to the economy. They don't buy drugs and only seldom do they go to hospitals or doctors. They don't add anything to the country's GDP.

On the other-hand, every new McDonald outlet creates at least 30 jobs and indirectly employ 10 cardiologists, 7 dentists, 5 dieticians and several nutritionists, and of course a lot of hospital staff.