[Alas Babylon!]

Wow! Sarkozy lost in France. They’ve elected a pure socialist. A little while, and France will be the new Greece. Austerity (and reality) throw in the towel! Germany cannot save Europe, then.

[Miss Marple]

France has a huge Communist party. The French people have been down the socialist road before (when times were easier) and I am sure they think that electing a socialist will bring back the good times.

Well, are they in for a surprise. Germany won’t work with them if they insist on their stupid spending, and pretty soon the money will stop flowing their way. It would not surprise me to find out that Sarkozy was a target of Soros.

All I can tell you is that I am going to England at the end of the month, but I am NOT going to France. And it is time to stop buying French wine again.

[kabar]

Yep. I fear the same thing will happen here. The public has become so dependent upon government and a feeling of entitlement that they will not want to go thru the necessary pain to get us out of this mess. You can't spend your way out of the problem with borrowed money.

Politicians who speak the truth and recommend tough solutions will be defeated.