France Proves That Not Everyone Is Paying Attention

[Artevelde]

The French election's lesson as it relates to over here is that when you hear Republican politicians/candidates going off on how they are going to make dramatic cuts in the size of government and the amount of government spending,

and voila! balance the budget!

they are feeding you a big plate of horseshit.

Austerity is a job killer, and job killers are vote killers, and vote killers are politician killers,

and no sane politician wants to commit political suicide.

So not spending more than you can finance and thereby avoiding bankruptcy is called "austerity" now?

Is it just me? Or are we ready to cue twilight zone music here?

Austerity: New definition. Not spending money you don't have.

Yes please! I like the twilight zone music.

 

[FJO]

What happens in France after this election will be a good indicator of what would have been in America if John Edwards had won the Democratic nomination and the Presidency.

Or, even if he had been VP for the gigolo, John Kerry.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

"Bad 'guess'"

Less austerity is what we need....as of now, we have gained back all the private jobs since 1/2009, but we're missing 607 k teachers, police, and firemen....Hollande wants to raise taxes on over 1 million Euros- NOT armageddon!! RW BULLSHYTE!!

We're nowhere near gaining back all of our jobs. You've been tuned in to your usual propaganda machine, outlets. Too bad.

 

[francoHFW]

Lost 4.2 million- have gained back 4.2 million, Fox/Rush/Pub dupe.

 

[paulitician]

More Socialism is the exact opposite of what Europe needs right now. This will not end well for France. The Takers will only keep on taking. But what about the Producers? Who do Socialists think pay for all the Entitlements? Making the Producers the enemy will only hurt the Entitlement hounds in the end. It's the Producers who provide the funds to support the Entitlement hounds. Takers only take, they never give. The French People have committed a monumental blunder. Opting for more Socialism will definitely come back to bite them.

 

[francoHFW]

TY, brainwashee.
A little more stimulus, a little less austerity, raising taxes on over a million Euros for jobs programs- this ain't armageddon - look at the UK for the tory/Pub non-solution- double dip and fewer trained for good jobs. We've had much worse debt in the past, and had a boom post WWII-we can stand a little more for infrastucture/job training/jobs bills. Under the Pub depression circumstance- a false Debt crisis, That sky is NOT falling- just an excuse for Pubs to cut good programs, stall the recovery with fear mongering and disfunction.

 

[mudwhistle]

From the OP:

"What socialists like Obama have been doing is flushing government with cash in the form of bail outs and stimulus."

Romney - Believe in Bailouts - YouTube the Socialist Mitt supports TARP that the Socialist Bush passed.

Recovery Act: Mitt Romney flip-flops on the Recovery Act - WhichMitt.com - YouTube Mitt the Socialist supports a Stimulus, stimulus's that the socialist Bush and Republicans did 2 of.


I'd ask if this means you won't be voting for a Socialist in the GE but something tells me both the right and left have shifted so far left they don't know either what a socialist anymore or maybe it's something else that I can't put my finger on.

The OP destroyed his own candidate, I simply provided the video of that candidate giving his socialist positions.

I'm voting for anybody but Obama.

At least Mitt isn't a Marxist and he doesn't eat Dog.

 

[mudwhistle]

I think we've had enough of a president that goes around the place "fucking with people" and instead wants to bring us together.

 

[GoneBezerk]

Based on my travels to and through France, most people there are content with whatever they get for themselves in life. So if the Govt is giving them stuff and taxing the hell out of others for it, then they're ok with it.

Many poor people live around Paris and just live their lives on what they are given. People in the countryside don't give a crap about politics as long as the Govt isn't messing with their life, like on farms.

They are not a society like America where people feel they can get more out of life, they're just content with the status quo. The left will lose the next election once the terrorists strike again or the muslims in the ghetto riot again.

 

[Saigon]

they're just content with the status quo. .

It has to be kept in mind that the status quo in France has been terrific for several decades now.

They have a very high standard of living, great quality of life. Much better health care than the US, excellent education and very good services.

Combine that with triple the holidays you folks get, and I can imagine a few Americans would take that French status quo as well.

 

[Newby]

they're just content with the status quo. .

It has to be kept in mind that the status quo in France has been terrific for several decades now.

They have a very high standard of living, great quality of life. Much better health care than the US, excellent education and very good services.

Combine that with triple the holidays you folks get, and I can imagine a few Americans would take that French status quo as well.

Well, it's obviously unsustainable, so pay me now, or pay me later... but, you will pay eventually.

 

[Staidhup]

TY, brainwashee.
A little more stimulus, a little less austerity, raising taxes on over a million Euros for jobs programs- this ain't armageddon - look at the UK for the tory/Pub non-solution- double dip and fewer trained for good jobs. We've had much worse debt in the past, and had a boom post WWII-we can stand a little more for infrastucture/job training/jobs bills. Under the Pub depression circumstance- a false Debt crisis, That sky is NOT falling- just an excuse for Pubs to cut good programs, stall the recovery with fear mongering and disfunction.

Tell us old wise one how 1+ -2 = 3? we would all be interested in your math skills. Please define sustainability. But then again keep the rose colored glasses on and fill that glass with some more of that cool aide.

FYI private sector manufacturing jobs will not come back to America until such time the corporate tax rate is reduced substantially. We are currently ranked the third highest in the world, and the only industrialized country that taxes repatriated earnings, but then again we demonize private sector jobs, so go figure, who cares right?

 

[Staidhup]

they're just content with the status quo. .

it has to be kept in mind that the status quo in france has been terrific for several decades now.

They have a very high standard of living, great quality of life. Much better health care than the us, excellent education and very good services.

Combine that with triple the holidays you folks get, and i can imagine a few americans would take that french status quo as well.

well, it's obviously unsustainable, so pay me now, or pay me later... But, you will pay eventually.

you will, because it"s the new american way!

 

[Newby]

it has to be kept in mind that the status quo in france has been terrific for several decades now.

They have a very high standard of living, great quality of life. Much better health care than the us, excellent education and very good services.

Combine that with triple the holidays you folks get, and i can imagine a few americans would take that french status quo as well.

well, it's obviously unsustainable, so pay me now, or pay me later... But, you will pay eventually.

you will, because it"s the new american way!

Let's hope not...

 

[The Rabbi]

they're just content with the status quo. .

It has to be kept in mind that the status quo in France has been terrific for several decades now.

They have a very high standard of living, great quality of life. Much better health care than the US, excellent education and very good services.

Combine that with triple the holidays you folks get, and I can imagine a few Americans would take that French status quo as well.

Same was true in Greece until 2 years ago.
The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money.

 

[WillowTree]

So the rich in france will be paying 75% income tax? Mass exodus I predict.. leaving the have nots in the dust.

 

[The Rabbi]

There are no major conservative parties in Europe. Not in the sense we mean it here. The Free Democrats in Germany are sort of close.

And of course it could not be that it is the US conservatives who have abandoned the true pat of conervatism?

It must be the 30 other western countries with conservative parties that have got it wrong?

Again, how are the UK Conservatives, or New Zealand's National or Finland's Kokoomus NOT conservatives?

Really?
UK Conservatives are promoting community organizers. Know anyone in the GOP who thinks that's a swell idea?

We are training up to 5,000 Community Organisers to encourage social action and enable individuals to shape the services that matter most to them.

The Conservative Party | Policy | Where we stand | Big Society
New Zealand is not in Europe, dipshit. And no one gives two craps about Finland. Hell, 3/4 of Americans couldn't find it on a map. Mostly they're famous for losing to the Russians and allying themselves with Nazi Germany.

 

[tinydancer]

I can't help but note that you claim the highest level of certainty ("proves") but offer the lowest standard of evidence ("guess").

I have no idea whether the French media is biased. It's hard enough agreeing on what constitutes media bias, and I don't know anything about the French media. It is true that Sarkozy is blaming the media, though.

Try reading France 24. It's like the NYT on steroids.

Hollande's bitch is a major press person. She has orchestrated the campaign against Sarkozy.

Why refer to her as "Hollande's bitch"? Whatever you may think of her politics and her journalism, she deserves minimal respect.

Fuck her. She is Hollandes bitch. And to be played that way.

She knows what she is.....

 

[tinydancer]

fuck off. Iknow this shit bitch.

 

[tinydancer]

So the rich in france will be paying 75% income tax? Mass exodus I predict.. leaving the have nots in the dust.

OMG they are insane. I hope they all run.