Nonsense argument. There are around 10,000 people homeless in Ireland and it's a national disgrace. Never once did I say it's acceptable. It's a problem, it needs to be solved. Reading back over what I wrote, I can see how it came across that I was trivialising the homeless crisis. I wasn't. I was acknowledging that it's a genuine issue. We can both be horrified by the homeless crisis and annoyed by people who always feel entitled to more at the same time. There are not utopias was a poor choice of phrase, when talking about homelessness, that was directed at those who are doing ok, but feel entitled to more. Having engaged with lots of my friends in discussions about the election over the past few weeks, I met a few who wanted the homeless crisis solved, the health service reformed, they want a higher miniumum wage, they want USC abolished, they want lower taxes and the thresholds for higher tax brackets raised and so much more. You could make an argument for each and every one of those things, absolutely, but where is the money to pay for all of this supposed to come from?
