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France confirmed as European champions for welfare spending
TheLocal.fr ^ | 22 December 2016 13:02 CET+01:00

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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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: eussr; france; socialism; welfare

1 posted on 12/22/2016 11:00:50 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
A couple observations. I am surprised France is higher than Greece and Germany (the father of the welfare state).

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?

2 posted on 12/22/2016 11:07:37 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Olog-hai

Throwing money at them isn't improving the streets of Paris.

3 posted on 12/22/2016 11:43:59 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

1950: Beirut is the Paris of the Middle East.
2016: Paris is the Beirut of Europe.


4 posted on 12/22/2016 11:45:18 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Sam Gamgee
Who is Merkel kidding that these refugees are coming to fill jobs?

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).

5 posted on 12/22/2016 12:31:12 PM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Moltke

And Merkel will win re election in a landslide


6 posted on 12/22/2016 1:17:58 PM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: rrrod
Merkel the Mad™ might well win again (having learned the tricks of the trade from her former mentor Kohl the Fool™ to sideline any competing talents in her party) - but in a landslide? Too many people are too pi$$ed off by now for that to happen.
7 posted on 12/22/2016 1:37:25 PM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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