Queen Opens High Speed Rail Link - 14 years after the French....

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:32:07 +0000, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

>"Similarly, we did French immigration in Waterloo on the way to
>Paris."

Napoleon or Wellington?
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Martin

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:23:01 +0000, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:


>Pre-schengen, I travelled many times between various countries,
>particularly Benelux, where my passport was never checked.

Not to mention one country where the passport was sometimes held upside down and
opened on the wrong page.
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Martin

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:37:34 +0000, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

>Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:23:01 +0000, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_
>> chancellor (*)) wrote:
>>
>>
>> >Pre-schengen, I travelled many times between various countries,
>> >particularly Benelux, where my passport was never checked.
>>
>> Not to mention one country where the passport was sometimes held upside
>> down and opened on the wrong page.
>
>Was Markkku an immigration officer?

He got dumped for discriminating against foreigners.
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Martin

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:44:16 +0000, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

>Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:37:34 +0000, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_
>> chancellor (*)) wrote:
>>
>> >Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:23:01 +0000, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_
>> >> chancellor (*)) wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >Pre-schengen, I travelled many times between various countries,
>> >> >particularly Benelux, where my passport was never checked.
>> >>
>> >> Not to mention one country where the passport was sometimes held upside
>> >> down and opened on the wrong page.
>> >
>> >Was Markkku an immigration officer?
>>
>> He got dumped for discriminating against foreigners.
>
>I'd have thought that would have earned him a promotion! :)

You could be right.
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Martin

Hatunen wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:15:46 -0600, "Frank F. Matthews"
> <matthews942@> wrote:

>>Hatunen wrote:

>>>On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:31:21 +0100, Martin <me@address.invalid>
>>>wrote:

>>>>On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:39:25 GMT, jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley) wrote:

>>>>>On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:22:38 +0100, Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:

>>>>>>On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:19:37 GMT, jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley) wrote:

>>>>>>>>Moving jobs out of London is more productive and cheaper.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Which would need infrastructure investment, to make that possible!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Just private investment.
>>>>>
>>>>>No! because the costs fall on the companies moving the jobs, but the
>>>>>benefits go to the wider society, it's precisely an area for
>>>>>government investment.
>>>>
>>>>If you want to subsidise private companies with the taxes you pay.
>>>
>>>
>>>Happens all the time. Tax breaks to Honda to build a plant in
>>>Tennessee. Highwya improvements so empoyees can reach their jobs.
>>>Texas built farm-to-market roads everywhere years ago to help
>>>farmers and ranchers sell their products.
>>>
>>>The assumption is, and it's not a bad one, that such
>>>infrastructure improvements provide more taxes through higher pay
>>>for employees, income for local suppliers of the new business,
>>>higher property taxes (after accounting for any tax breaks
>>>granted) more state income tax revenue.
>>>
>>>But don't get me started on local governments building new
>>>stadiums and arenas for sports teams....
>>>
>>
>>But then they charge non-residents.
>
>
> As well as residents. But Usually the local goverbnment dfoesn't
> get its investment back in any case and so ascribes the benefits
> to more intangible things, like good will for the city, or the
> local taxes on hotel rooms, or ...

Mostly the residents do not use the hotels & rental cars that get taxed.

Lying about the benefits from a program is always there from industrial
subsidies to major sports games.