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Subject: Re: Losing my religion(?)
From: George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com>
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On 8/15/12 9:14 AM, in article
502baed1$0$44545$c3e8da3$9deca2c3@news.astraweb.com, "Warren Oates"
<warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <3olsf9-do4.ln1@news1.chingola.ch>,
>  Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> 
>> For me it was the name of bus companies serving various large towns in
>> the UK, prior to privatisation.  Mostly good but you're stuck to their
>> routes and timetables and you'd rather be in a car.
> 
> It's a huge grocery chain in Eastern Canada, centered in Quebec. The
> stores are called "Metro" (or "Métro" in in Kaybec) and the chain is
> "Metro Richelieu". They've taken over A & P in Ontario. They're one of
> the biggest grocery wholesalers in the world.
> 
> It's also the underground rail system in Montreal. So Montrealers can
> live near the Metro and a Metro and that all makes sense.

It's also the public transportation system here in Houston Texas. And it
sucks in money in sales tax and builds rail lines in the middle of streets
causing horrendous traffic jams and retailers along it's line to go out of
business. To top that off, the cars are generally 75+% unoccupied.

Another wonderful product of guvmint.