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To: Louis V. Lambrecht who wrote (26286)	1/22/2003 2:12:47 PM
From: Eva	Respond to of 36161

Thanks for a very informative post for a european

To: Louis V. Lambrecht who wrote (26286)	1/22/2003 2:59:03 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36161

Louis, do you know an online resource for seeing which countries paid how much into, and got how much out of, the EU. Of course there are other considerations like how the rules are made and the Northern countries obey them while the Southern ones don't. EG important things like rights of property ownership and freedom of working and less important things like whether you get arrested for riding a motorbike with or without a helmet (or a drivers licence for that matter). And the rights to natural resources such as fish reserves. As someone that used to do business based in the UK, it is easy to trade with the US for the simple reason of language. Maybe a common language should have been the first aim before the ambitious (and doomed to failure IMO) project of a single currency. Anyway, I am fed up with paying the majority of what I earn to support people who can't be bothered to work, not just at home in the UK, but now in the rest of Europe as well. So I have quit working and have bought a home in greece. Partly for the excellent windsurfing conditions but partly for the ability to take from the EU after all the paying in. There I find newly built roads with hardly any traffic on them - paid from EU money, I get an EU grant to build apartments there, and I get EU help to market them. Of course it is a massive misallocation of resources while people in the UK are queueing in traffic and paying horrendous prices for road tax, insurance and petrol, but such capital misallocation is a result of the interventionist policies of the Union of European Socialist Republics.