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1 posted on 05/25/2018 10:57:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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That’s OK, they’ll just have the European Central Bank buy the bonds in their next quarterly round of Quantitative Easing.

Free printed money - problem solved!


2 posted on 05/25/2018 11:00:58 AM PDT by PGR88
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3 posted on 05/25/2018 11:02:20 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Olog-hai

Is there anything the French won’t subsidize? They give Airbus unfair advantage, which leads many American airlines to use them over Boeing and other US companies.


4 posted on 05/25/2018 11:02:30 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Olog-hai

If they can afford $41 billion dollars they ought to spend it on defense.


5 posted on 05/25/2018 11:03:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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I thought all those Euro railroads were swell and a model for the USA if we would only get smarter!/s


6 posted on 05/25/2018 11:05:06 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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You mean passenger rail is not profitable?

Who’d a thunk it?


8 posted on 05/25/2018 11:07:33 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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Sacre bleu. I’m going on strike. Hopefully they’ll absorb my mtg. Merci beaucoup macron.


11 posted on 05/25/2018 11:31:15 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Shut the railroads down, fire everybody and sell assets off to for profit companies.

Rioters to be given whiffs of grapeshot.


12 posted on 05/25/2018 11:34:12 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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California government offers to absorb '$35 billion of railway debt' to end strike

You heard it here first!

14 posted on 05/25/2018 12:09:18 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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Socialism works. This is how it works.


15 posted on 05/25/2018 2:51:32 PM PDT by spintreebob
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wait, i are cornfused... what does "The French government has agreed to absorb €35 billion in debt from the state railway SNCF" mean?

if it is a STATE railway, is it not already funded by the gooberment???

16 posted on 05/25/2018 3:27:02 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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Retirement payment for 16 live crossing guard flagmen at every road crossing (4 per six hour shift) does run into money.


18 posted on 05/25/2018 10:48:45 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin another gem posted in the wilderness)
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