Posted on 10/12/2015 4:43:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
SALZBURG, Austria — In this alpine border town, the suspension of train service into neighboring Germany has been a boon to taxi drivers. Taha, who asked to use only his first name lest local tax collectors hound him about his earnings, makes 300 euros every time he drives a stranded traveler the 143 kilometers (about 90 miles) to Munich.
Since Germany stopped rail service from Austria in mid-September as a way to slow the tide of refugees pouring northward, Taha has made 18 such trips.
“Normally in a month I would go to Munich one time,” he said last week at the taxi stand outside the station in Salzburg. “People don’t know what to do without the trains. Some of them will spend anything.”
Meanwhile, grocery stores on the German side said their business has been halved as Austrian shoppers have been cut off. The local university lifted restrictions on handicapped parking to accommodate all the professors who commuted by train. For drivers, the frontier is a one-way valve: Getting to work isn’t so bad, but coming home can mean a two-hour delay at the road crossing, where Germany has implemented new passport checks.
Salzburgers say it’s as if a border that had largely melted away has suddenly risen up like one of the stone walls that once surrounded this medieval city. The free flow of people across national lines is a core ideal of the European Union’s grand effort at unification. But here, and in other parts of the European Union where cross-border trains have been halted, moving back and forth has taken on an Old Europe feel.
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Well they voted for the politicians. Elections have consequences.
European kill shot.
Perhaps they need a Leader who will make those trains run on time ...
Now that they are being affected on a personal basis, we will hear some protests.
Now, just Muslim pig KILLERS!
It would cost $259.74 to take a taxi from New York City to New Haven, CT (about 90 miles).
Those “white, European racists” are at it again. They need to go back to ... oh crap! Where do they need to go back to?
Let them eat multi-culturalism.
Yeah, and I predict these halted trains are going to end up hitting some of these Euro countries in the wallet. Trains are the primary mode of transportation for many tourists in Europe. I know I will not tour there if I am likely to end up stuck on a train full of young Muslim men. Just not taking the chance.
"...moving back and forth has taken on an Old Nazi feel."
The problem isn’t all the islamics on the trains. The problem is that the trains are running north into Europe instead of south back to krapistan.
I’m curious to see how Nationalism will manifest out of this.
I’m curious to see how Nationalism will manifest out of this.
At this rate, it will start with house to house fighting.
“The Hills Are Alive, With the Sound of Jihadists...”
Most of them are not for this, their nwo/globalist leaders are pushing it down their throats.
No, “they” (Politicians and media elite) won’t be affected one bit by this Mohammedan invasion (at least not for a while).
As someone said, Deutschland Uber Allah.
RE: “The Hills Are Alive, With the Sound of Jihadists...”
LOL
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