[Info-vax] A possible platform for VMS?

[Dirk Munk]

Richard Maher wrote:
> On 3/3/2015 9:42 PM, Dirk Munk wrote:
>> I've got news for you.
>> If you want a good road, or good public transport for your kids to go to
>> school, you can't set it up for your self. But paying for it
>> collectively by taxes does work.
>
> You don't want "good". You demand/expect gold-plated.

Really? glass fiber is very cheap, and has an enormous capacity. The 
telephone cables are very old and need to be replaced anyway.

>
> Why don't you demand fast trains to any village with more than 1 person.

Good that you mention trains. Our railway system is the most densely 
operated railway system in the world. They are going to overhaul our 
local railway station for some 275 million Euro if I'm not mistaken. A 
few new railways are under construction, but for small villages we rely 
on small buses. You just have to make a phone call, and a small bus will 
come.

> (Germans always laughed at us when we called the Inter-City Express
> trains ICE trains even though that was the English acronym. On second
> thoughts an Ice-Cream Train is a bit funny :-)
>
> You choose to ignore the opportunity-cost to health, welfare, and
> education etc. You sir are like a drunken Greek full of flash trains and
> Olympics and retiring at 50 on 100% pension and you never finish the top
> storey of your house 'cos then you'd have to pay local tax.

The Netherlands have about 18 million inhabitants, that is about twice 
as much as the city of New York. Never the less the pension fund 
reserves of The Netherlands amount to €10,500 billion. That is the third 
largest reserve, after the US and Japan. The national debt of Greece is 
less than €500 billion.

>
> But now you know the Germans will do anything but default so screw 'em
> for evry cent they've got! The Irish, Portuguese, Italians and Spanish
> are all lining up behind you with their pants down.

The Irish and the Spanish governments had their finances in order. In 
both countries stupid building companies and banks created so much debt 
that the government had to bail out the banks, otherwise the banks and 
with them the total economy would have been gone down the drain. In fact 
banks all over Europe and the US created the crises we are recovering 
from now. A Dutch journalist (a very good one) lived and worked in the 
city of London a couple of years, and he just published a book about the 
banks. Top managers in these huge banks still haven't a clue about the 
risks they are taking, and they don't understand the financial products 
they are selling. The next banking crises is on the horizon, these 
idiots haven't learned anything.

It was an American bank that helped the Greek government to hide its 
true debt when the Greeks wanted to join the Euro.

>
> Don't get me going on the Irish (I am mostly one) they have a tax haven
> for Google and Apple etc so they loan their Oz subsidiaries billions for
> nothing and repatriate our profits back to the "Celtic Tiger" :-(
>
> Anyway the most important thing is that YOUR govt pays you enough so you
> can stay in a real hotel when you go on holidays and stop clogging up
> (see what I did there?) the Deutsch autobahns with your bloody caravans!
> How much tax did you pay Hitler for their roads eh?

How much did Hitler steal from The Netherlands? How much do you think we 
invest in railways and highways so that the German industry can 
transport goods to and from the harbor of Rotterdam? In fact the Dutch 
and German economies are so intertwined that we are almost a German state.

> Take your "NL"
> sticker and piss-off back to window-shopping Amsterdam and other village
> curiosities that you're so eager to preserve.
>