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To: Snowshoe who wrote (112748)	7/26/2015 12:36:11 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218627

Rebuilding all of former East Germany has been incredibly costly, funded by a 9% surcharge of so on income taxes. Yet today the former East is virtually indistinguishable from the West - in Germany at least. And it's not been Greek, Italian or English taxpayers paying for that. Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary et al still of course look quite communist with a lot of run-down Soviet era buildings. The Brandenburg Flughof will replace both Tegel Flughof, a former military base and the former East German Schönefeld Flughof now wedged into one of the upscale suburbs of Berlin. Brandenburg will serve Berlin - what is again becoming the largest and most important city in Europe. The underground train connections between the new airport and the city, like the foundations for major buildings have cost Sony and other companies a lot of money because Berlin's water table is only 3 meters or so below the surface, being surrounded by the River Spree which used to form the border between East and West. For 20 year Berlin has been a network of brightly colored pipes carrying water from construction sites to the Spree. American news journals can find this as embarrassing as they choose and no one cares. The city is becoming spectacular and the scope of the size incredible. West Berlin was a very small place. When Greeks start funding their own construction projects with their own tax money they'll hear a lot less criticism about their own airport construction.