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To: elmatador who wrote (47424)	3/14/2009 5:41:24 AM
From: TobagoJack	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217837

uk is finished am here now, after one day look see, saw nothing worthy and this am, at breakfast of cumberland sausages, eggs, coldcuts, toast, and tea, was shocked by what i read on the front page ... telegraph.co.uk "Anyone departing the UK by land, sea or air will have their trip recorded and stored on a database for a decade. Passengers leaving every international sea port, station or airport will have to supply detailed personal information as well as their travel plans ... The owners of light aircraft will also be brought under the system ... track 250 million journeys annually ... Even swimmers attempting to cross the Channel and their support teams will be subject to the rules which will require the provision of travellers' personal information such as passport and credit card details, home and email addresses and exact travel plans ... expected to use the internet to send their details each time they leave the country and would face a fine of up to £5,000 should they fail to do so ... Similar penalties will be enforced on airlines, train and ship operators if they fail to provide details of every passenger to the UK Border Agency. In most cases the information will be expected to be provided 24 hours ahead of travel and will then be stored on a Government database for around ten years." some of the worst ideas of this planet originated in europe, communism, fascism, nazism, gulags, concentration camps, communes, collective punishment, racism, wastrelism, hamburger ...

To: elmatador who wrote (47424)	3/14/2009 2:11:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217837

It is indeed strange that Bernie Madoff goes to prison while the electorates vote for the vast Ponzi schemes of retirement theoretically to be paid for by future taxation. <It need to note that its citizens were promised a lot for when they got old. The first ones collected and run away. The last on the queue, will have little to rely on as not enough youngsters will put money in the Ponzi scheme called retirement. > There is no difference between what Bernie did and what governments around the world are doing except that they are doing a vastly larger Ponzi scheme affecting everyone. They tell everyone to put money in, the politicians/Bernies take their cut [and pensions too], and the politicians pay some of it out to the currently retired. The scheme seems to work - but as with Bernie's scheme, the money coming in is increasingly not enough to pay out the promises for the current demands and the politicians keep taking their cut, stashing it away and not planning on being around to answer to the future retirees who will wonder what happened to their money which they paid in for half a century. Yet they despise Bernie Madoff, they vote for more of what Bernie did, the politicians take their cut up front, organize their own gold-plated pensions, don't plan on being around to answer for the chaos and poverty and everyone denigrates the idea of tradable citizenships which would confer on individuals the ownership of their share of the commons which is what is being promised. People are going to get what they vote for and get it good and hard. Mqurice