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Socialism Not All It's Cracked Up To Be Makes Hollande Most Unpopular President In 32 Years
While the people of France voted for a wealth distributing tax-the-rich Socialist President, it appears Francois Hollande is not living up to his electorate's hope for change as his policies are increasingly seen as simply more of the same as Sarkozy - “often the line is very fine between the two but Hollande must maintain the idea that he is more left wing.” Hollande’s popularity fell in February, leaving him the most unpopular French leader since 1981, a TNS-Sofres poll showed. More than two-thirds of the French and 44% of those who voted for him say they’re disappointed with him. It seems Socialism is not all it's cracked up to be as "the [European] obligation to cut deficits and spending and make reforms... exactly what Sarkozy had to deal with... annuls all measures Hollande wants to impose to boost jobs and growth." Hollande has restated his promise to reverse the unemployment trend and chanted his three mantras "constancy, endurance and hope," but, as Bloomberg notes, the last five opinion surveys have been disastrous for the self-proclaimed 'normal' president but have no fear as the 'old fuddy-duddy' is going back to the people in a charm offensive.
It seems 'we the people' of France are as unhappy as the Italians...
President Francois Hollande, the most-unpopular French leader in more than 30 years, is struggling to show supporters he’s not dipping into predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy’s playbook to reverse an economic slump.
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“Often the line is very fine between the two but Hollande must maintain the idea that he is more left wing,” said Eric Bonnet, a political opinion analyst at BVA polling institute in Paris. “The big challenge for Hollande is to give his supporters the feeling that what he does is different from Sarkozy, to reassure them on his policies.”
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“His wings are clipped,” said Mathieu Plane, an economist at research institute OFCE in Paris. “As long as he must comply with very tough austerity measures, as long the economy is not expanding to give him some leeway on state measures, his margin for maneuver is minimal.”
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With no immediate hope for an economic recovery, Hollande’s program for 2013 is looking very similar to his predecessor’s, infuriating his political allies and supporters.
Hollande’s popularity fell in February, leaving him the most unpopular French leader since 1981, a TNS-Sofres poll showed. More than two-thirds of the French and 44 percent of those who voted for him in the second and decisive round of the May election say they’re disappointed with him, according to a BVA poll in Le Parisien on March 3.
Worse, a majority -- or 51 percent -- of the respondents in the BVA survey said Sarkozy would have done a better job in fighting the crisis and the morosity gripping France.
The survey showed that 54 percent of the respondents believe Hollande isn’t doing enough to change France and most say he won’t fulfill his promise to reverse the trend of rising unemployment by the end of the year or make enough reforms to stabilize the country.
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Still, with the European Commission breathing down his neck on fiscal discipline, Hollande needs to make a series of unpopular overhauls, including reshaping the overextended pensions system, cutting public spending and pushing through more-flexible labor rules.
His pledge to cut the budget deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product this year has already been ruled unattainable by the commission. His efforts are also aimed at sending reassuring messages across the Rhine to Chancellor Merkel who has pushed for austerity over Hollande’s electoral campaign promise of growth policies.
“The European factor -- the obligation to cut deficits and spending and make reforms -- is exactly what Sarkozy had to deal with,” OFCE’s Plane said. “It annuls all measures Hollande wants to impose to boost jobs and growth.”
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To appease an increasingly irritated population ahead of a late March television presentation of his strategy for rekindling growth and employment, Hollande launched this week a new agenda item: regular visits to “real France” with a sleepover in the nearest small town.
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you mean getting stuff for free doesn't work out in the end? really?
So it's not just here the pols trot out the "hope" slogan when they've got nothing else.
32 years ago France was far more Christian than she is today.
"Thou shalt love thy neighbour." Matthew 5:34
Thou shalt bilk thy neighbor.
Obama 20:12
'but have no fear as the 'old fuddy-duddy' is going back to the people in a charm offensive.'
I thought the people had all moved out...
Those that mattered anyway..
"hollande’s popularity fell in February, leaving him the most unpopular French leader since 1981,"
tant pis
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tant_pis
which, in english, means 'aunt wee wee'
'the most unpopular French leader since 1981'
That would be Francois Mitterand in 1981, another hard-line socialist who came in promising a 35-hour work week ... and only ended up devaluing the franc.
Now that there's no franc to devalue, France will just have to SUCK IT IN until something breaks.
France was working on getting a new people to match its government.
News flash: Christianity is a mythology and a borrowed one at that. Might as well discuss how Zeus is not well-pleased with the french.
When we people learn "hope" is not a f@ckin strategy
50% of the populations retirement 'strategy'
hope and pray to win the lottery
I like that "constancy, endurance and hope" thingie. I expect we will be seeing it in the headlines and lead paragraphs of Reuters, AP, CNBS and all manner of other sock puppet media any day now - you have to feed the algos!
Endeavor to persevere.
After thinking that over we decided to declare war.
Too late for America, the animals will riot if their free shit ends.
Yeah but everyone love Obummer.
Polling companies and credit rating agencies make sure of that because the Feds will raid them if they do not spread the love.
French think they have it bad...
Look at what we Americans "hoped" for and got..., from the same people that brought you Bush...
The opposite of Hollande is not a Bush-like type or Sarkozy, It would be a Ron Paul which is a completely unknow specie in France.
"54 percent of the respondents believe Hollande isn’t doing enough to change France".
Translation: He does not drive fast enough towards full flung communisn. Don't be fooled you austrian libertarians!
Exactly. All French parties are government parties, and the French electorate are raised in statism, fed it, bathed in it, educated from crèche to post doc by it.
Politicians are all the same. It doesnt matter what their party is, what their ideology is or what they tell you they "want to do for you". They are all the same. They lie to get elected. Once elected they spend all their time enriching themselves at public expense and they lie the entire time.
Politicians are bad people that do bad things for bad reasons. They are sociopaths. They have no conscience. They are motivated by power and control.
Putting hope and faith in government and politicians is as about as useful as putting faith in the god that doesnt exist.
That's why govt should be designed to self limiting, organized with competing coequal powers, of limitited roles and scope. The founders understood the scope creep issue, the limitless desire for power, and the end result, tyranny. Nothing new.
Look for a billboard popping up in France with a grinning picture of Sarkozy saying...
"Miss me yet?"
"constancy, endurance and hope" = liberty, equality, and fraternity. Sharpen the guillotine blade, baby.
Constancy = status quo
Endurance = tuff it out
Hope = live with it but keep a good attitude.
Anyone with integrity and ambition who voted for these idiots got what they deserved. The whole world knew electing this President (in both France and the US) was a huge mistake.
Hope has turned to cope.
The French weren't clued in, apparently.
we should have kept sarko and you GWB....the perfect couple.
Integrity personified.
Where is the enduring culuture of personal liberty among the French?
If the French want change they should roll some heads...
You've got it backwards. What they wanted and voted for was MOAR socialism. They're not happy with Hollande because he hasn't delivered, and he can't deliver because of the Euro.
Give the Frenchies back their printing press and let's get 20 francs to the US dolor again. Heh.
He can't deliver because socialism is failing right on schedule, a couple of generations into it. The euro and the eu are just symptoms of statism doubling down and redoubling down in attempts to pull up. Not possible. The demographics. The end.
Yeah because the first French revolution worked out so well. Egalite is not a workable slogan unless followed by "under the law". They went for the Karl Marx kind.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm:"
Let them eat hope............
saving face! thats all they( leaders around the globe) want to to, try to look like they care. same here in the US, pileofcrapticians care just of getting re-elected, keep their pockets lined with cash, and nothing of the american people! TO HELL WITH ALL OF THEM!
Guillotine by Gillet: http://www.lolthis.com/img/gillette-guillotine-5866
Le Fuqued?
Baise or encule
When will people learn that there is a certain recipe to good government....SMALL GOVERNMENT. Time and time again, these fools think they can redo the big .gov ways and believe that it will work. Here is a fucking idea, TRY SMALL GOVERNMENT.
down voted: eat a dick
Give anarchy a chance Iridium!
I'm thinking plausability. Small gov would allow anarchy in certain forms. I do still believe in an organized defense. Anarchy would be great, but I do not believe that it could stay functional as lawlessness would be more possible. I hear ya tho.
Anarchy would be an improvement because society would be able exclude or kill (that archaic concept of self-defense) known criminals.
Property rights are virtually non-existent with any government because government can't exist without legalized theft. All of your property is up for grabs under government.
And what does "defense" have to do with defending?
Don't get me wrong, I would settle for a completely neutered government, but that and anarchy will never happen as long as the vast majority are talking monkeys.
There are options other than Big Government and Anarchy. Just like there are more colors than Black and White (you may be unaware of this).
:)
Only if it's an FDA-approved dick.
The FDA does not approve dick. Only ingestibles, drugs, laws and propaganda that make civilians submissive and docile. Hillary Clinton set up the FDA, the soviets were most impressed.
You can be sure strapons are allowed.
what about horse? It's cheaper....lean.
I see Obama and his well paid fleet of "advisors" have been on this board. i bet he has a group to parse comment boards for disinfo.
It must really suck to be surrounded by greedy suck ups who tell you only the lies you need to hear singularly to undermine, chisel and skim off your business, with no regard for the impact, then be held responsible for their treachery, and not be able to kill them.
It's the debt stupid...
There's a VICIOUSLY long winter here in France. Today it's snowing.
"So what?" I hear some of you say. Well some historians say the French Revolution burst out in 1789 because of the 1788-89 very hard winter, and the desperation that occured from it...
Just sayin' François!
We are in a solar maximum currently, and farming was a bigger variable back then. The real issue is the bill coming due for socialism, and not enough young people to pay for the ponzi. European birthrates and shit quality immigrants. Done.
what makes Hollande unpopular is not that he is a socialist; its that he is impotent to solve France's problems.
The NEW world situation of post 2008 has exacerbated the ongoing past and festering crisis since oil price hike and beginnings of unemployment. This new global crisis is bigger than France's current economic capability, and France has contributed to it bigtime; by blocking the EU from evolving into a more constructive, active and reactive, political cum economic union. France has done nothing right since 1975, when the oil crisis and the petrodollar scam began, except the vote in the UN in 2003 agains GWB's Irak play; meager presence in participating in finding solutions to world problems!
Its strategy in Francafirque has been the greatest sin against building a stronger economic base in its ex colonies; its as if the lessons of Dien Bien Phu and Algeria had taught it NOTHING; awesome regression of mindset! You can't pretend to be a key player on the world scene if you are in civilization regression.
Its alas true for both Pax Americana as for Francafrique!
Sure, sure, the eu needs to be more active and reactive, because France's gigantic government is too small in scope to take enough measures. Go to hell statists.
I was, and still am, delighted that Hollande won the election in France.
I am also delighted that Grillo beat the hell out of Monti in Italy.
The reasons are diametrically opposite.
The potential is the same.
Both will hasten a necassary and earlier demise of the Euro along with the statist fools who support it.
Or maybe hasten 1984. One or the other.
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Increase # of jobs by paying people to RAT on thier Friends, Family and Foes.
Probably more expensive than we can afford, once the ACLU gets hold of the first couple of mistakes/lies!
So the French don't like capitalism and they don't like socialism.
There's a term for this.
"sucking and blowing at the same time"
The thing is they all clamor at once for the government to dio something. The government.
More elitist propaganda. It's not tax the rich mantra, it's FAIR tax based on income. If the rich were taxed, their rolls would NOT grow geometrically? Last year 200 additional billionaires were minted, that' at least $200 billion less wealth for the rest.
That's the Karl Marx version of Egalite. Always works out so well.
Can't have successful people being more influential than failures.
yae Jamie Dimon and Blankfein are fine examples; why do you americans complain?
Let these guys run the world..Liberty, sweet oligarchical liberty;
Simple Simon met a pieman...
32 Years? - I LOL in your general direction!
Danish Socialists rulez:
Socialists have experienced lowest support since 1898 after the government published its new "growth" plan last week
Bwahahaaaa!
Somebody should start a new country where you have the freedom to say what you want, protect yourself by any means necessary, have private property, keep everything you earn in a free market...except for just a little bit that you give to fund a military to protect you and your rights, and be left alone.
That would be cool.
The Constitution is too subversive, Meat Hammer. Anyway no one can understand it because it is like, at least a hundred years old. Forget it.
Hollande can draw from his socialist counterpart's playbook at the White House on how to thrive on falling polling numbers - blame predecessor, blame other parties, go on vacation, back on the campaign trail and say populist words that make people think you're on their side.
The majority of people the world over have no clue. They elect "conservatives" and nothing changes. Then they throw them out and bring in the "socialists". Then nothing changes still. So they throw them out and bring in the "conservatives" AGAIN, ad infinum.
That is the sorry state of the human disgrace. They have no idea who our real enemy is. The real enemy gets no blame and remains out of site. They think the puppet politicians are the ones in control. Don't worry. If the shit hits the fan under Obama, then it will be a republican white house and maybe senate in 2016. Then as the debt goes nuclear under the republican president from 2016-2020, they will elect the democrats in 2020, thinking change has finally come. Then when the fall out is still leaking and spreading throughout the economy, we will have a "conservative" in 2024.
Einstein is correct. "Define insanity? It's doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result." :(