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Kimbop
Joined: 31 Mar 2008
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 Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 8:10 pm Post subject: French Voters Choose the Road to Greece; Elect Nanny Statist |
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The voters of France have elected a devout socialist by the name of Francois Hollande to lead them, perhaps on a direct path to where Greece is today. When economic realities meet socialist delusions, we've all seen which one wins.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9249109/French-Presidential-election-as-it-happened.html
Pure hilarity:
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"Socialist candidate promises to replace austerity with growth."
"He also plans to increase spending in a range of sectors and wants to ease France off its dependence on nuclear energy." |
Four out of five economists agree! The road to prosperity is to spend billions in borrowed money to increase the size of goverment! The French will discover that there is at least one thing worse than austerity, and that is insolvency. Tomber de la po�le dans le feu.
The French checklist: guns, ammo, medical supplies, a well fortified piece of property, the ability to grow crops, sand point water, gold, silver, and a lot of fuel. |
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comm
Joined: 22 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: French Voters Choose the Road to Greece; Elect Nanny Sta |
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| Kimbop wrote: |
| The voters of France have elected a devout socialist by the name of Francois Hollande to lead them, perhaps on a direct path to where Greece is today. When economic realities meet socialist delusions, we've all seen which one wins. |
Replace austerity with growth? Why didn't we think of that before?
While I agree with everything you've said, I can't honestly say that the alternative was any better. For decades, European leaders have made deals with the devil (aka international finance) and now the payment is coming due. My politicians are buying things I'm not asking for (world police force, corporate subsidies, etc) and I'll do everything in my power to avoid paying that bill as well. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 8:53 pm Post subject: Re: French Voters Choose the Road to Greece; Elect Nanny Sta |
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| Kimbop wrote: |
The French checklist: guns, ammo, medical supplies, a well fortified piece of property, the ability to grow crops, sand point water, gold, silver, and a lot of fuel. |
Paranoid much? Greece's problems have more to do with corruption than any sort of system of economics, and as long as they French can avoid that then you nightmare situation will never happen. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:24 am Post subject: Re: French Voters Choose the Road to Greece; Elect Nanny Sta |
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| Leon wrote: |
| Kimbop wrote: |
The French checklist: guns, ammo, medical supplies, a well fortified piece of property, the ability to grow crops, sand point water, gold, silver, and a lot of fuel. |
Paranoid much? Greece's problems have more to do with corruption than any sort of system of economics, and as long as they French can avoid that then you nightmare situation will never happen. |
True very true, however how can anything be done within reasonable cost when the working hours aren't 40 hours a week? As long as people work, I totaly believe the rich should provide good benefits to workers. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:37 am Post subject: Re: French Voters Choose the Road to Greece; Elect Nanny Sta |
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| Leon wrote: |
| Kimbop wrote: |
The French checklist: guns, ammo, medical supplies, a well fortified piece of property, the ability to grow crops, sand point water, gold, silver, and a lot of fuel. |
Paranoid much? Greece's problems have more to do with corruption than any sort of system of economics, and as long as they French can avoid that then you nightmare situation will never happen. |
True very true, however how can anything be done within reasonable cost when the working hours aren't 40 hours a week? As long as people work, I totaly believe the rich should provide good benefits to workers. |
studies have shown that promoting a healthy work/personal life balance increases workers efficiency. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 7:01 am Post subject: Re: French Voters Choose the Road to Greece; Elect Nanny Sta |
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| Kimbop wrote: |
| a devout socialist by the name of Francois Hollande |
There's nothing wrong with being a socialist. Canada desperately needs Socialism right now. |
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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 1:22 pm Post subject: Re: French Voters Choose the Road to Greece; Elect Nanny Sta |
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| NohopeSeriously wrote: |
| Kimbop wrote: |
| a devout socialist by the name of Francois Hollande |
There's nothing wrong with being a socialist. Canada desperately needs Socialism right now. |
Canada seems to be doing just fine under the conservative government there. A strong economy even during all the global financial troubles. How exactly does that make it in "desperate" need of socialism? |
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Kimbop
Joined: 31 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:52 am Post subject: Re: French Voters Choose the Road to Greece; Elect Nanny Sta |
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| NohopeSeriously wrote: |
| Kimbop wrote: |
| a devout socialist by the name of Francois Hollande |
There's nothing wrong with being a socialist. Canada desperately needs Socialism right now. |
No, Canada desperately needs buyers for its resources, ie: oil, uranium, potash, gold, coal, and right now, real estate. Without these buyers, Canada would be broke; offering little utopia, socialist or otherwise. |
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Kimbop
Joined: 31 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 9:17 am Post subject: Re: French Voters Choose the Road to Greece; Elect Nanny Sta |
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| Leon wrote: |
| Kimbop wrote: |
The French checklist: guns, ammo, medical supplies, a well fortified piece of property, the ability to grow crops, sand point water, gold, silver, and a lot of fuel. |
Paranoid much? Greece's problems have more to do with corruption than any sort of system of economics, and as long as they French can avoid that then you nightmare situation will never happen. |
The "nightmare" situation is already happening. Greece is underemployed and rioting, since the nanny state, Greece's largest employer, is cutting jobs.
the euro is collapsing:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/rogerbootle/9263156/The-final-death-throes-of-the-euro.html
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The euro crisis is entering its final stages. Economic pain is now interacting with political resistance to produce intense financial pressure. I expect Greece to leave the euro � and perhaps very soon. |
Spain's banks are failing:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/10/spain-races-to-shore-up-troubled-banks
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The emergency measures taken to partly nationalise the country's fourth largest bank, Bankia, on Wednesday are not regarded as enough to encourage investors to start pouring their money back into the country. |
London real estate is booming:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/13/londonproperty-idUSL5E8GB8RI20120513
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Worsening financial and political turmoil in southern Europe caused a surge of interest in London property last month with buyers from Greece and Spain showing strongly among investors seeking a safe haven for their money. |
And Italy is deploying soldiers to protect its tax offices:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9263021/Soldiers-may-be-deployed-to-protect-Italian-tax-offices.html
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Soldiers may be brought in to protect Italian tax offices and other sensitive sites following an increase in violence as the country struggles through austerity measures. |
A must-watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ6_Ey_MJV4
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Nigel Farage: "We face the prospect of mass civil unrest, even revolution." |
Putting trust in government is a mistake. Be self-sufficient. Grow your own food. Own land in a free country, and buy guns. |
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No_hite_pls
Joined: 05 Mar 2007
Location: Don't hate me because I'm right
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:36 pm Post subject: Re: French Voters Choose the Road to Greece; Elect Nanny Sta |
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| Be self-sufficient. Grow your own food. Own land in a [b]free country, and buy guns. |
Getter done!  |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:56 pm Post subject: Re: French Voters Choose the Road to Greece; Elect Nanny Sta |
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| NohopeSeriously wrote: |
| Kimbop wrote: |
| a devout socialist by the name of Francois Hollande |
There's nothing wrong with being a socialist. Canada desperately needs Socialism right now. |
Perhaps. But there's everything wrong with Hollande being a strident Keynesian.
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Of course it would be desirable to have greater growth, which would also help overcome national deficits that have gotten out of hand. But it would be even better if this happened through natural means -- through innovation and increased investment in the real economy. But that's not what politicians like Hollande -- and his friends here in Germany and in other European countries -- is talking about when he calls for more growth.
What he's talking about is artificially created demand: growth paid for with ever more borrowing. It's about building motorways through sparsely populated stretches of land, the construction of more trade fair halls where they aren't needed and building provincial airports that are totally unnecessary. |
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Kimbop
Joined: 31 Mar 2008
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| This photo was taken at the Place de la Bastille in Paris, during theelection celebration for the comrade socialist presidentHollande. See any French flags? Anywhere? Actually, there is ONE towards the bottom right. The other flags are in order ofappurtenance, Palestinian (2 flags top right & one centre left),Algerian, Turkish (towards center), Syrian (towards left of pic + belowPalestinian flag), Moroccan (w. star in center), and European Union flag.The other flags I can�t recognize, there are also Syndicates or Unions�flags. That's France in a nutshell. |
http://www.theospark.net/2012/05/france-under-hollande.html
Goodbye, France. |
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bigverne
Joined: 12 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| There's still a faint hope that a disastrous Hollande presidency and economic collapse could open the door to the National Front come the next election. |
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rollo
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: China
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| I am certain after the economic disaster that a strong leader will emerge who can restore order!!!! |
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