Throwing money at them isn't improving the streets of Paris.
Posted on 12/22/2016 11:00:50 AM PST by Olog-hai
France devotes more than one third of its GDP to providing its citizens with welfare protection, according to new figures. No other country in Europe is as generous.
The new figures from Eurostat will give ammunition to right wing presidential candidate François Fillon, who has vowed to dramatically shred pubic spending if elected next May.
In the year 2014 France spent 34.3 percent of its GDP on welfare, well above the European average of 28.7 percent.
Behind France came Denmark, which dedicated 33.5 percent of GDP on social spending; then Finland (31.9 percent), the Netherlands (30.9 percent).
The UK was down in ninth place after spending 27.4 percent of GDP on its welfare state, just behind Germany on 29.1 percent. …
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The other one is Germany. Who is Merkel kidding that these refugees are coming to fill jobs? Does she not have enough imagination that many of them come for the welfare?
Throwing money at them isn't improving the streets of Paris.
1950: Beirut is the Paris of the Middle East.
2016: Paris is the Beirut of Europe.
No one. That doesn't mean that leftist fools won't stop advocating for the invaders. It's their 'plan', after all. And very profitable for some of them (just like in the US - catering to illegals, 'refugees' etc. is BIG business).
And Merkel will win re election in a landslide
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