Socialist Party wins big in France

[Tsalagi]

Wow///watch France Fall...Our one time adovcates of liberty against the British...have succombed...vive la libertie means SQUAT now.

After two WARS we saved thier asses from...

GOOD riddence.

Don't forget that we took over Indo-Cjina (Vietnam) from them after Dien Bien Phu!

 

[francoHFW]

And we don't need your anti-French brainwashed horse patoot....ugly 'Merican twaddle.

 

[Dr Grump]

They needed 289 seats in the French Parliament to push through their agenda without having to make deals with another party, sorta like a filibuster proof US Senate. They got somewhere between 296 - 320 seats, a big margin. Which essentially means France is fucked. Hollande says he's pro-growth but will increase spending, lower the retirement age back down to 60, and raise taxes big time on the rich up to 75% from around 45% I think. That ain't going to work. With no opposition, if he pursues these policies then they're toast. All the lefties around here shrieking for more stimulus spending and higher taxes on the rich take note: you are about to see how a country's economy goes right down the crapper following those policies.

Perhaps we should follow your preferred path and slash spending to close the deficit. Then we can end up as an economic dynamo like Britain. No wait, they're in a recession. What about Latvia? Nope, they're still really having a rough go of it. What about Ireland? Oops, same.

The Entire WORLD is in straights

IDIOT.

Australia's not...neither is huge chunks of Asia

 

[The T]

Perhaps we should follow your preferred path and slash spending to close the deficit. Then we can end up as an economic dynamo like Britain. No wait, they're in a recession. What about Latvia? Nope, they're still really having a rough go of it. What about Ireland? Oops, same.

The Entire WORLD is in straights

IDIOT.

Australia's not...neither is huge chunks of Asia

Good for the Ausies and Your chunks...

 

[Polk]

There is absolutely no necessity in short-run budget cuts. Saying there is a need for the budget to balance in the long-run does not require sharp cuts today.

BULLSHIT.

Governments across the WORLD are too fucking topheavy.

YOU fool NO ONE.

Even if we except that statement as true (and it's not universally true), that still doesn't mean cutting during a recession is the best idea.

 

[Dr Grump]

I still find it amazing the Greeks seem to be blaming everybody but themselves. They interviewed several Greek Australians on TV last night (FWI, the city outside of Athens with the biggest Greek population is said to be Melbourne), and only one said the thing that needed to be said. Greeks need to start paying taxes, and they shouldn't expect to retire at 53 and the Germans to pay their pension.

Although one did say last night "we're going to show those Germans we don't need them".

Good, then start paying your freakin taxes...

 

[The T]

There is absolutely no necessity in short-run budget cuts. Saying there is a need for the budget to balance in the long-run does not require sharp cuts today.

BULLSHIT.

Governments across the WORLD are too fucking topheavy.

YOU fool NO ONE.

Even if we except that statement as true (and it's not universally true), that still doesn't mean cutting during a recession is the best idea.

So Spending when the populace is out of work is the best course?

*WRONG*

IDIOT

 

[Polk]

BULLSHIT.

Governments across the WORLD are too fucking topheavy.

YOU fool NO ONE.

Even if we except that statement as true (and it's not universally true), that still doesn't mean cutting during a recession is the best idea.

So Spending when the populace is out of work is the best course?

*WRONG*

IDIOT

Yes, it is. It helps to close the shortfall in aggregate demand.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

There is absolutely no necessity in short-run budget cuts. Saying there is a need for the budget to balance in the long-run does not require sharp cuts today.

Yep.

Making it worse today does not make it better tomorrow.

However, the R's will not suddenly get all patriotic and start investing in their own country. Their only real investment is in their own pockets and to hell with their country.

 

[Wiseacre]

" I still find it amazing the Greeks seem to be blaming everybody but themselves "

You know what I'm thinkin', right?

 

[Polk]

I still find it amazing the Greeks seem to be blaming everybody but themselves. They interviewed several Greeks Australians on TV last night (FWI, the city outside of Athens with the biggest Greek population is said to be Melbourne), and only one said the thing that needed to be said. Greeks need to start paying taxes, and they shouldn't expect to retire at 53 and the Germans to pay their pension.

Although one did say last night "we're going to show those Germans we don't need them".

Good, then start paying your freakin taxes...

Greece has always fancied itself as one of the big boys, but it's really just another dysfunctional state in the Balkans.

 

[whitehall]

We saved their quiche eating asses in two wars and they still don't have any sense.

 

[skookerasbil]

They needed 289 seats in the French Parliament to push through their agenda without having to make deals with another party, sorta like a filibuster proof US Senate. They got somewhere between 296 - 320 seats, a big margin. Which essentially means France is fucked. Hollande says he's pro-growth but will increase spending, lower the retirement age back down to 60, and raise taxes big time on the rich up to 75% from around 45% I think. That ain't going to work. With no opposition, if he pursues these policies then they're toast. All the lefties around here shrieking for more stimulus spending and higher taxes on the rich take note: you are about to see how a country's economy goes right down the crapper following those policies.

LOL........what assholes over there.


But nobody cares about France.

 

[Dr Grump]

" I still find it amazing the Greeks seem to be blaming everybody but themselves "

You know what I'm thinkin', right?

Do tell...

 

[Dr Grump]

I still find it amazing the Greeks seem to be blaming everybody but themselves. They interviewed several Greeks Australians on TV last night (FWI, the city outside of Athens with the biggest Greek population is said to be Melbourne), and only one said the thing that needed to be said. Greeks need to start paying taxes, and they shouldn't expect to retire at 53 and the Germans to pay their pension.

Although one did say last night "we're going to show those Germans we don't need them".

Good, then start paying your freakin taxes...

Greece has always fancied itself as one of the big boys, but it's really just another dysfunctional state in the Balkans.

I just think they're lazy arses....