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Meanwhile In Socialist France...
It would appear that in order to appease the masses - despite his recent small bump in popularity post-Affair - France's President Hollande has gone full Socialist-tard. Aside from promises to cut spending by EUR50 billion in the next 3 years (so less taxes?), Hollande has suggested...
- FRANCE'S HOLLANDE SAYS FRANCE MUST PRODUCE "MORE AND BETTER"
- HOLLANDE SAYS COMPANIES WILL IN RETURN BE GIVEN QUANTITATIVE TARGETS FOR HIRING, TRAINING
- HOLLANDE SAYS PUBLIC SPENDING CUTS CAN BE MADE WHILE PRESERVING FRENCH SOCIAL MODEL
Channeling Stalin, he further calls for "more economic governance of the Euro-zone" and the creation of a Franco-German energy company and more tax-harmonization with the Germans. We are sure Merkel will be over-the-moon at that suggestion.
So hitch up to Germany.. (and if they won't then that's a victory for nationalism also)
- *HOLLANDE CALLS FOR MORE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL COHESION WITH GERMANY
- *HOLLANDE SAYS GOVT TO CREATE 50,000 JOBS FOR YOUTH IN 2014
It's just that easy...
So appease the peons with spending cuts..
- *HOLLANDE REITERATES THAT SPENDING MUST BE CUT TO REDUCE TAXES
then slam with Stalin-esque central-planning and control...
- *HOLLANDE CALLS FOR MORE ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE OF EURO ZONE
But in the interests of keeping his base happy... he clarified...
- *HOLLANDE SAYS HE HASN'T TURNED INTO A FREE MARKETEER
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this guy and his country is doomed to fail. like something out of Atlas Shrugged ... every worthy business man, who's given "hiring targets" is going flee .. to Asia where free market capitalism is flourishing???
Socialists can add 2 and 2 and get 3.23; but you don't get to argue with them, because you don't have a Phd. in 17th. Cent. Literature.
I'm sure Russia has some 5-year plans left over from the Soviet Union that they can loan to France.
QUANTITATIVE TARGETS FOR HIRING
Forward Soviet!
GDF/Wintershall merger or a Nuclear energy pact to ensure they co-sign a EU wide ban on Shale gas and 10 new reactors.
So funny yet so sad at the same time: The Lazard and Warburg brothers must be spinning in their graves at how screwed up the French welfare state is now.
So what did he say about his new pussy?
Tractors!
"because you don't have a Phd. in 17th. Cent. Literature."
They get away with that because anti-intellectual folks
have no clue of what 17th.Cent. Literature could teach them.
Come to my library before I burn it, I have all the rare
books I always wanted to own.
Hollande is an accomplished skirt chaser.
*HOLLANDE CALLS FOR MORE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL COHESION WITH GERMANY
Yeah, really, they already had perfect economic and social cohesion with Germany, and they didn't like it; there's just no pleasing somepeople.
*HOLLANDE SAYS GOVT TO CREATE 50,000 JOBS FOR YOUTH IN 2014
Did someone say 'yutes'?
Perhaps he will put them to work making white flags.
If there is one thing zee Germans really know, it is how to put people to work.
@BeanusCountus
These Jay Leno's style jokes are a bit tired !
You forgot to call them "Cheeseeating surrender monkeys" btw.
In fact this ugly disdain and pitiful jokes come from the firm refusal of the French to join America in Irak, in 2003.
Since France refused to go to Iraq, American warmongers and neo-cons made French army look like cowards – as a punishment.
But History has proved the French were right.
FOR SALE: French gun, never used, dropped once.
It ain't a World War 'til France surrenders.
Bad joke
You'd think Americans would remember the key role of the French navy at Chesapeake and the French soldiers (who represented more than half of the fighters) at Yorktown.
But that would require even a cursory knowledge of history, and that is apparently a no-go zone...
There, you see!?!? It took American involvment going all the way back to the late 1700s for French victory. Seems they lost A LOT before America and most often since, without American support that is.
But truly, the French are brutal people. Look at the monarchies. Look at Napolean. Look at the bloodbath of a revolution. Look at the overseas prisons they had. Look at what they have done to brown people around the world, especially in Algeria. Oh and the waiters are rude and they smell bad.
Oh hey look, a German soldier! I bet you ducked didn't you.
Seriously though, where would we be without the French. I sure would miss my french fries. I'll stop now. You know I'm not serious. The French are a great people. Great at taking offense to people whom they consider themselves superior.
Whatever man. They are socialists. Socialists suck in every nationality.
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Sock ray blue, dude, pull your head out of that barrel of brie and learn some history. Ugly disdain and pitiful jokes about the French have been around since way before 2003.
It may come from Hitler's and Goebble's propaganda after the French defeat of WW2. But all that stuff was complacently revivified by the neo-cons after 2003.
Don't forget that in 1939 and 1940 France was let alone (apart from only 8 British divisions, which succeeded to quickly re-embark at Dunkirk thanks to the sacrifice of the soldiers of the 1st French Army of the North ).
France was let alone facing a nazi-fanaticized country with a population of 80 million (vs. 40 million in France), a particularly well prepared war-industry, and an air superiority of 5 vs 1.
At the same time the “US ally” refused to sell planes on credit to France !
The landing in Normandy didn't occur before June of 1944 (5 five years later), after other landings in North Africa, Sicilia and Italia. And only because it was better to fight US enemy in Europe than in America, after the declaration of war by Germany and Italy.
And the US never faced mor than 15% of the Wehrmacht – 80% were in the East - when France had to face alone 100% of Hitler's war machine in 1940.
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Zoot allures, man, you're missing the point entirely. The reason that jokes about the French are so funny is because there will almost always be some French guy to overreact and start citing history. This is why the funniest jokes about France are those which use the most egregiously inaccurate stereotypes.
Don't take everything so seriously. Go get yourself some fried snails and a bottle of wine and watch a few Jerry Lewis movies and you'll feel much better.
@TheFourthStooge-ing
For the cliche :
Fried snails : I am vegetarian , Jerry Lewis : I don't like too much - but this kind of jokes are not very nasty.
Your great recommendation is "Don't take everything so seriously"
I take the jokes for what there are:
When the French are treated of "Cheese-eating surrender MONKEYS", I say that it is in the exact same way that the nazis used to treat the Jews – denying them the right to be Human being, and treating them of "cowards" or "rats".
Anyone daring to compare JEWS or BLACK PEOPLE with MONKEYS, would immediately, and rightly, be denounced by everybody as a nasty racist (or some sort of nazi) ... But it seems that in this country, which in fact owe its independence to the French, this kind of ugly anti-french racism is pretty well tolerated …
May I add that :
The decision of Congress in 2003 to change all references to French Fries and French Toast on menus, and replace them with Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast was not an innocent joke but an hateful gesture.
The hate of the american warmongers - coming from the firm refusal of the French to join America in Irak in 2003 - remains still there, well alive under the appearance of "innocent jokes".
They have not forgiven the offence, even if they no more eat "Freedom Fries" in place of French Fries. :-))
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Non sequitur. Everyone knows that the US Congress is the biggest and most embarrassing American joke. Of course it was a hateful gesture. Why would you expect anything different to come out of Vichy DC?
C'mon, war mongers don't have a sense of humor. Even a retard can see that their "jokes" are expressions of hate, and anyone with a brain knows that the French were correct about Iraq.
Let me repeat what I said above, with added emphasis:
It isn't even the jokes themselves which are funny. Most of them are recycled lameness. It is the response which is funny:
I concede that my comments may have been a rather oblique way to express agreement with you.
By the way, thanks for taking the time to prove my point. ;)
@TheFourthStooge-ing
In 1933, in Germany, lot of non-racist people laughed at these "good jokes" about the Jews, to which it wasn't responded.
This paved the way for the nazi hate-sowers.
Why on earth would such a great nation, facing a 2-1 disparity in manpower, allow itself to be so unprepared for war against a traditional rival like Germany?
Maybe... not... so... great....
To be fair, you did only have a handful of British divisions and airplanes and you held out almost two months. Compare that to Poland who had no help at all and had to take on the Russians too. They only held out a month and some days. Viva la France!
@The Replacement
France had to take on the Italians too. And the engaged strengh and losses were not on the same scale
Poland Invasion - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland
Strength: Germany:60 divisions - Joined on 17 September by Soviet Union: 33 divisions
Casualties and losses : Poland : 66,000 dead - 133,700 wounded - Germany: 16,343 killed - 3,500 missing - 30,300 wounded - Soviet Union: 1,475 killed or missin - 2,383 wounded
Battle of France - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France
Strengh: Germany: 141 divisions – Joined by 300,000 Italians
Casualties and losses: France: 360,000 dead or wounded - Germany: 157,621 casualties - 1,236-1,345 aircraft destroyed - 323-488 aircraft damaged - 795 tanks destroyed - Italy: 6,029 casualties
The 1940 campaign was the most intense of all the battles that will take place later on the Western Front:
the Germans suffered heavy losses in just 6 weeks - approximately 60,000 killed 111 000 injured and above 1250 planes were destroyed which will be greatly missed by the Luftwaffe during the battle of Britain.
In a month and a half of fighting the French army counted 84,000 dead in its ranks – and this is 4 times more than the losses of the American army in three months of battles in Normandy (21000).
It is the air superiority (over 1,000 Stuka bombers knocked out the troops defending Sedan) and the intelligent use of the German panzers that broke all the defenses.
Since WW2, air superiority is always the winning key of battles …
So sad, that picture.
Capitalism met up with nationalism and then ground up an entire generation of children to make arms merchants happy happy happy.
And it will all happen again, over and over, apparently.
That wasn't capitalism + nationalism, it was nationalism + socialism.
Indeed. Germany had been practicing socialism since Bismark. Where do you think we got our education system?
It was capitalism for the Nazi elite and socialism for the plebs. Oh and a lot of them plebs ending up at the graveyard while the Nazi elite just packed their bags and went somewhere else.
Dictators do not practice capitalism. Capitalism involves risk.
Or is what simply socialism for everybody...
Socialism always always creates a hierarchy of elites who enjoy every luxury trapping known to man while the plebs get what's left and get told "we are all equal."
Socialism is so often about nothing more than replacing the ruling elite with their own ruling elite. Stalin - for all his preaching of communism - lived in a huge private villa in the woods outside Moscow where he entertained. He travelled to/from the Kremlin each day in a luxury limo with chauffeur. The Russian people of course knew nothing about this.
You, dear moron, are referring to COMMUNISM.
You don't know anything, you don't argue with folks to challenge your idiot ideas and presumptions...so why do you even bother to post?
Go drink some booze and screw your kids out of their inheritance. But please! Give up your postings here of your cartoonish versions of reality. It's such a drag to see your efforts and the unreflective life you expose.
These children were helpless pawns between what Americans et al. imposed on Germany with the Treaty of Versailles and its encouragement to Russian Communists to overrun German cities following WWI. The use of photographs such as this now, without an explanation of what was happening in Germany in the 1920s, has become nothing more than Zionist propaganda.
John Toland writes about the front line German soldiers (including Adolph Hitler) returning to their home cities after WWI to find them overrun with Reds.
Toland: “In truth, Hitler was in a state of ferment and turmoil because of the epidemic of revolution. Never had he been so concerned for the state of his adopted country… ‘Involuntarily I saw thus my own development come to life again before my eyes.’ His simmering hatred of Jews had been activated by what he himself had witnessed on the streets of Munich. Everywhere Jews were in power: first Eisner, then anarchists like Toller, and finally Russian Reds like Levine. In Berlin it has been Rosa Luxemburg; in Budapest Bela Kun, in Moscow Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev. The conspiracy Hitler had previously suspected was turning into reality.”
And those children shown here were summarily taken care after WWII by FDR’s henceman, Henry Mortanthau.
Dr. Lawrence Meyer, executive secretary of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, after a tour of Germany at the time stated: “About 16,000,000 German refugees east of the Oder are being deported from their homes. It has been estimated that already 10,000,000 have been driven out. The human tragedy and suffering caused by this ’Volkswanderung’ are unparalleled in history…”
An authentic eye-witness reported…
“A large barge is slowly being towed across the Oder River. In it, lying on straw, are 300 children ranging from 2 to 14 years of age. There is hardly a sign of life in the whole group. Their hollow eyes, their swollen bellies, knees, and feet are telltale signs of starvation. These are merely the vanguard of hundreds of thousands—millions of homeless, shattered, hungry, sick, helpless, hopeless human beings fleeing westward – west of the Oder and Neisse rivers.
“A trust in God—in his goodness and mercy—these are the only hope of Germany today. And thank God in many there is still faith in God against which the gates of hell have stormed in vain during the past decade.” (Sen. Homer Capehart in speech before U.S. Senate, Feb. 5, 1946)
Americans imposed? Try French imposed. They got the reparations....
The greed cemented into the Treaty of Versailles, negotiated by bankers Paul Warburg for the U.S. and Max Warburg for Germany, led to Germany’s 1923 hyperinflation and forced the impoverishment that led, out of starvation and desperation, ultimately to WWII.
Of the Versailles treaty, Francisco Nitti, the prime minister of Italy, wrote: ”The cost of the war of all participants totaled three times the value of all property in Germany. She was ordered to pay an impossible 1.7 billion marks a year (in foreign exchange) for 59 years, until 1988. Even worse, according to the normally circumspect banker, Hjalmar Schacht: ‘The Treaty of Versailles is a model of ingenious measures for the economic destruction of Germany.’”
In a Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany signed on September 10, 1952, “reparations would become a decisive part of Israel's income, comprising as high as 87.5% of the state income in 1956,” according to Wikipedia.
Later, “on behalf of US citizens, the US Foreign Claims Settlement Commission reached agreements with the German government in 1998 and 1999 to compensate Holocaust victims who immigrated to the US after the war...
“In 2009, Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz announced that he will demand a further 450 million to 1 billion Euros in reparations from Germany on behalf of some 30,000 Israeli forced labor survivors. Israel has also sought large discounts on the purchase of two German-built MEKO warships.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_Israel_and_West_Germany
On December 10, 2010, The New York Times wrote: “NOT many people noticed at the time, but World War I ended this year. Well, in a sense it did: on Oct. 3, 2010, Germany finally paid off the interest on bonds that had been taken out by the shaky Weimar government in an effort to pay the war reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.”
France? together with Italy and Spain they are almost ready for MOAR BAIL-OUTS !
http://zysites.com/silververitas/2014/01/13/2014-euro-mess/
Those French are so pathetic these days. Actually time to send an army and take back Elsaß. Pity, we don´t do that anymore now.
Yeah, let's have moar war in Europe. That will settle things. NOT.
U.S. economist Victor Thorn has noted that although a large number of US corporations aided the Nazis (such as Standard Oil and Rockefeller's Chase Bank, as well as U.S. automobile manufacturers) Prescott Bush's interests were much more profound and sinister.
And don't forget IBM! They made the gas chambers possible with their punch card technology. http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
And don't forget the progressive movement in America. Eugenics were big stateside among that bunch, and they long preceded Hitler's rise.
fortunately, the NSA is not limited to only one vendor ... think what they'll be able to do!
Thanks for bringing that up. It is much more effective than defending France.
So... when central planning fails... more central planning will fix it? Alrighty then... good luck with that.
The Germans will work and the French will spend...perfect harmony!
sounds like my marriage
Your wife works and you spend your time responding on ZH? Well done! ;-)
They already have a Franco-German energy company; France supplies the electricity and Germany pretends their Solar Panels are working.
Ha!
Excellent.
Largely French Nuclear energy if I'm not mistaken.
I never thought the sensible Germans whould embrace numbskull "alternative energy" and environmentalism. Ah well, some religion had to fill the vacuum since they've eschewed their Christian roots.
And Germany is spending 20 billion Euros a year on tax breaks for 'alternative energy' and now importing 30 million metric tons of coal, 10 million of it from America. There's EU logic for you. Forward!
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-07-28/merkel-s-green-shift-backfir...
You're not mistaken. the electricity comes thru the European 600 and change KV main inter-connect, and the Germans pay the elctric bill every year, while pretending they';re whiter and righter than everybody else. Even better is Denmark which gets electricity from a DC underwater extension cord from Germany, and ultimately from France, and gets to pretend their windmills are a good idea.
So no more shit french cars then? Nope thought not!!!
@Max Damage
Shit french cars ?
It just happens that Renault-Nissan Group sold 8.1 million cars worldwide in 2012
- behind Toyota, General Motors and Volkswagen for total volume - but more than Ford (5.67 million cars)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault%E2%80%93Nissan_Alliance
BTW, it also just happens that Airbus sold more planes than Boeing in 2013 ...
Isn't Nissan a Japanese manufacturer? Renaults and Citroens are useless pieces of junk.
ANALyse2, just let it go. You sound like my French wife. All emotion with no rational thought process.
Your rational contributions are certainly to be extolled here and I am grateful for your education. For instance I had no idea the genus Procyon was native to France.
Miffed;-)
Nissan vs French breakdown please, or get the fuck out.
Thats alot of replacement parts to sell when they all break then. Nissan have gone down the pan since Renault took over
And if they succeed in getting LaGarde in charge of EU...... Godd bless the Europeans. Will go full communist Feudal in coming years with those two in charge.
More and better vacations and coffee breaks.
Before I invest in the E.Z., or France, do you mind if I have a look at your assets and collateral?
Collateral? WHo needs that with Bernanke/Yellen feeding Europe?
Struggle, comrades!
Dirigisme is bound to work someday, if we keep dutifully banging our heads against the wall.
Now excuse me, my 7-hour workday is over and I'm outta here.
Is it working yet? I can't keep this going forever.
I almost enjoy watching the sickening circle-fuck that is the Eurozone.
HOLLANDE SAYS GOVT TO CREATE 50,000 JOBS FOR YOUTH IN 2014
Doesn't France have enough eastern European hookers already?
They have to replace them pretty quickly. Thankfully, there is a well entrenched mafia connected all the way back to the source countries.
Someone should send this to that idiot Kashma Sawant who was just elected to Seattle's city council (she ran as a Socialist). Or better yet, send it to all the idiots who voted for her.
The best part is she has a PhD in economics!
I guess in the U.S. one has Socialism for Wall Street only.
...and even then, it is only the losses that are socialized.
All is well in the land of unicorns and rainbows.
There is nothing more pleasing that watching France go down the fucking toilet!!!!
Shitty fucking country. Shitty fucking race.
They let too many of the hunter-gatherer locusts in.
Having colonies means the colonies have you too.
Actually Paris is cool. They just put it in the wrong country.
Stay well inside the peripherique, or way outside. The edge cities with their socialist architecture tower blocks are to be avoided. They're full of France's vibrant north African youth who use the word "francais" as an insult.
I won't work. Maybe I'm French.
you haven't traveled much, have you
Socialist France? Can someone please explain to me the differences in France and the USA? Not in platitudes or design, but in actual practice today.
In France you get free medical care; and very reasonable electric bills from the state owned electric utility that's mostly nuclear; in the US you get raped by private medical insurance companies, then get worse medical care; then go home and pay insane utility bills to private corporate "persons".Some things governments do better; especially if the alternative is to have the corporate "persons" buy the politicians.
On the other hand, there is no hope of a future for the French civilisation. The USA is recoverable.
Free medical care no longer available in France.... rest is bs too.
Free Free Free
There is not Free lunch. Someone has to pay for it. Why don't you numbskulls understand that?
The US is circling the drain to become like France and that pisses me off to no end. However, it's even more maddening that people, like you, like to point to France as an improvement. I don't want to live like that. Why must you assholes insist on making me live the way YOU want. You can move there and we'll both be better off. Okay, you got me. I'm lying. If you move there I'll be better off and you will be better educated about reality on earth. Let's try that. You shut the hell up and move there. I'll keep living here. When I want to live like that I'll move there.
Deal?
PS - If you refuse to take the deal things will get bloody. I will not submit. I will defend my rights against little dictators like you, to the death. Do you understand this? Go there and live the way you want. Stay here and to rule over me and take from me and you will cause people to die. Be humane and just go away.
He should have announced that France was gonna increase unicorn production.
Bullish on skittles!
I am long French razors and soap...at some point they will start to shave..and shower
Not here, the arm pits stop growing after a while and I can use leg hair in stead of the wool blanket at night (wool's too damn expensive today), and my inlaws make soap so that's free, i'm good to go for awhile it seems.
Ugly racist comment ...
"Hollande ditches Red Socialist Model for National Socialist Model -- socialist groupies not expected to notice the difference."
Now that there is funny. Too bad the socialist groupies have downvote power.
It could be overly-sensitive Franchutes that mistake mockery for dislike......
Moral chaos, Sheldon Richman wrote in his introduction to Frederic Bastiat’s The Law, comes from “generalized legal plunder…precisely because law and morality have been set at odds.” From Bastiat:
. "When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law."
Richman says “Bastiat points out that for many people, what is legal is legitimate. So they are plunged into confusion. And conflict”:
Sound familiar?
WORK! WORK! If you're not a biggy piggy you better leave the farm before you're bacon.
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in
In their sties with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon
The Beatles, Piggies
I'll do you one better..
Taxman, The Beatles
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cos I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cos I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet
Taxman
'Cos I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
Don't ask me what I want it for
(taxman mr. Wilson)
If you don't want to pay some more
(Taxman mr. Heath)
'Cos I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
'Cos I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me
Taxman.
Scootering around between mistresses, France you deserve all the shit you're in for electing this turd.
True enough.
Now what will be our comeuppance for TWICE "electing" the illegal Affirmative Action, RaceMarxist Kenyan?
So, ZH, you do realize that the natural destination for a capitalist system, if uncorrected by socialist redistribution methods, is subsistence wages, mass unemployment, and collapse in consumer demand, right?
Or are you thinking magical ideas? ZH, have YOU gone Full-Retard? Are you -still- under the misapprehension of what Adam Smith meant when he observed the "Invisible Hand" of economics? Do you think that the supremely rational Adam Smith believed in Tooth Fairies/Confidence Fairies?
Do you think Adam Smith was talking about some just and fair "force" that made the long term outlook of unfettered capitalism work out for the worker/consumer?
Well, you are wrong. The natural cycle of wage decline leading to poverty, reduced demand, reduced production and grinding misery are the "over the horizon" results of the capitalist system. Smith was talking about the narrow give and take of commerce when left to its own without the corrupting influence of intervention from King and country. Smith is not projecting the long term consequences and his target is the Imperial systems and government supported monopolies of his day.
Ask yourself: Have wages been going up since the very end of FDR inspired redistributive mechanisms starting with Ronald Reagan?
Of course not. YOU are working more hours, have less resources/savings, requiring both spouses to work and now even buying a home, the given reward of simple hard work/the American Dream, is shooting out of reach.
A nation of renters with no retirement savings lorded over by a ever smaller clique of super wealthy elites...that is the America I am seeing.
How about you?
Socialism can take many forms but the end result is the SAVING of the market system from itself. It all boils down to REDISTRIBUTION. Either we proceed with redistribution via progressive tax systems or hyperinflation or overt confiscation or we devolve into a dystopia and eventual bloody revolution.
Go and find the laziest and dumbest person in your village and marry that person. Then come back and report on your personal experience in socialism. I'd be interested to hear your perspective.
Sorry, your mom is in jail again for prostitution and public drunkenness...should I look for your sister? What village does she live in? Or have you married her already?
I'm impressed. How do you write hundreds of words without actually saying anything? And what is this capitalism you speak of?
13 morons agree with you. 'nough said.
Socialism has never corrected anything. It's a mental disease.
Free market capitalism as regularly explained by many people on ZH is the ONLY way to run an economy to generate prosperity, pride, personal responsibility and freedom.
The minute political slimeballs interfere to "correct" things according to their particular dogmas is the very same minute that things head south. It then becomes a process of applying more and more corrections and you end up with utterly distorted markets. Economic collapse soon follows.
You must have been born AFTER 2008. That is the only way to explain your position.
France is not Socialist anymore
"The last global economic crisis has brought the Left as well as the extreme nationalism in the front line. The rise of the Left in Greece and elsewhere came as an answer to the corrosion of the European Socialism and its absorption from neoliberalism."
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013/09/self-management-societies-vs-...
There is a better chance of 50000 new positions in the kama sutra than 50000 new positions for youth.
How nations can vote for such morons is beyond me.
Je Taxe - François Hollande.
http://youtu.be/Ky-w6cMsLDA
Je taxe, donc je suis. To paraphrase Descartes.
You must hire X amount of people or be taxed!
*company moves to Germany*
Then Hollande blames greedy capitalists who don't care about people and calls for more government crack-downs.
Rinse
Repeat
Collapse
As french I call pathetic the speeches of our dear president. The latter elected twice by default (Dam to Sarkozy and Dominique strauss kahn foreclosure), tries to fool us with false statements as what would lower unemployment and growth go up (slowly).
These blatant lies are appalling for more and more french as appaling
I hope that the sheep will stop following the wolf disguised as a shepherd...
I think he's actually a fool disguised as a fool; that's the trouble with Democracy, people vote for whoever tells them what they want to hear. Look at Obumbler, for instance; if you can stand it.
I hate to say it, but come 2015, we here in the Great White North might be casting envious eyes at Bambam and Hollande. We are poised, if the polls are accurate, to select as Prime Minister one Justin Trudeau, son of former Liberal (read "Socialist dictator") Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Justin is a freakin' high school drama teacher, but he has a mane of curly and unruly hair, and the womenfolk's hearts are a-throbbin'. Canada's political system doesn't have the restrictions of pesky Senates or Congresses; if he has a majority, he can do almost anything he wants.
God help us.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
eye is french you english and amerigan types are scum and liars.
france wis hollande is strong proud turgid and erecta mon
we makes love to actris better dan you.
we invade mali and somali better than you.
nobody murders an african baby wis more care and humanity than ser french soldier lover.
mr rotschild and his lovely jewish family loves us better than you.
i will have to disagree wis are nobpoleon hollande on one thing.
output increase is not possible.
are cows are sheep and goats are at maximum milking suck capacity.
cheese output if anything has to decline but no matter.
we just do what der brits do go rape another country and steal everything just like gadaffis gold
Dat shit is funny. What about the geese?
Not to mention the sheer generosity of the French soldier who while in Africa will pay a whole pound to any 8 & 9 year old boys and girls that will share their prepubescent bodies for entertainment.
Hollande says he will create 50,000 jobs in 2014.
He could probably create many more than that but the problem is only 1 in a 100 will be productive.
Welcome to Socialism.
A bag of shit.
¿who's John Galt?
@Metalhead
Unfortunately he isn't French President.
*HOLLANDE CALLS FOR MORE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL COHESION WITH GERMANY"
Translation:
"Dear Mutti, please bail us out.
...Love from your froggy friend, Hollande."
Inspiration for Obama comes in many ways.