Posted on 05/06/2012 12:32:35 PM PDT by Perdogg
If François Hollande has styled himself as Mr Normal – recently photographed buying fruit compote in a Paris supermarket and saying he would continue to do so after he's elected "if the fridge is empty" – his partner, Valérie Trierweiler, could revolutionise the unofficial role of France's first lady.
If, as she has promised, the 46-year-old journalist keeps her contract for the magazine Paris Match and continues to work, it would be the first time a president's partner has held down a regular job and salary. Her role as a journalist would make this juggling act even more tricky. For 20 years, she covered French politics for Paris Match, and also recently hosted her own politics show on cable. During the early days of the campaign, she reconverted to the culture beat, arguing there was no conflict of interest with the arts world, although she was furious when Paris Match put her on its cover under the headline "Hollande's charming asset".
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Depending where, I hope not.
No, they won’t, and here’s why:
The Germans, when polled, don’t like the idea of Germany bailing out these spendthrift nations. The schemes that have been proffered by the EU elites to prop up these bankrupt nations is to a) get a whole bunch of money from Germany, b) lever it up, c) use it to bail out the bankers and political hacks who borrowed from the bankers.
All of this ends up debasing the currency and resulting in inflation.
The Germans are hyper-sensitive and skeptical about anything that smacks of “inflate your way out of debt,” because they see that this tactic led to the election of the little Austrian watercolor artist and his buddies in the 30’s... and that didn’t work out so well for Germany.
In this weekend’s local elections in Schleswig-Holstein:
We see two things:
1. Merkel’s coalition appears to have come undone, which leaves them either scrabbling around to make promises to glue together a coalition with other parties less friendly to bailouts of deadbeat countries in the EU,
2. The rise out of nowhere of a whole new political party, the Pirate Party, who won about 8% of the vote with only two real positions in their party platform. This rapid rise from seemingly nowhere, of a party with no real fiscal platform, indicates that people are increasingly PO’ed at how the ruling coalition is handling financial matters.
Any way one looks at it, the votes this past weekend in Europe indicate one consistent theme so far as I can see it: People are tired of giving and receiving bailouts to keep the Euro afloat. The Germans don’t want to fund this nonsense, and the recipients of German bailout funds don’t like the conditions placed upon them for using said bailout monies.
I’m not talking about a “bail out”, I’m talking about a “buy out”, with the Germans owning France.
With the Socialists back in, watch for more sucking up to the muzzie mobs and France being emptied of its Jews as they flee to a much safer place, Israel.
But she’s a nasty socialist which is far uglier than any homely looks could ever be.
Merci, Cincinna. You’ve done us a service today. Just having to listen to Hollande would drive me to the bottle. A large part of his constituency hate the country that succors them. We’ll have to wait and see what their candidate does to the place.
The Germans don’t want to bail out or own any more stuff, period. They don’t want to spend their money either bailing out or buying out anyone else.
The German government is already raising taxes on young people and cutting benefits for their social welfare schemes. Now the Germans are being told that they have to spend their sovereign funds to prop up (through one scheme or another) these other countries in the EU. They increasingly want none of this, and today’s election results for a political party that has no “serious” platform shows that more and more Germans don’t trust the political leadership (regardless of party) who keep touting the Euro and “fraternity of Europe” twaddle that was rammed down their throats without a vote.
The reason Hitler rose to power is exactly because of the fractious nature of the European parliamentary system. The Pirate Party is just another bunch of noisome, radical socialists. Take a look at the election results. The attempt to satisfy every political whim in the marketplace without using the marketplace is the failure of rational governance.
Somebody isn’t going to be happy in politics. You get full or nearly full satisfaction only in the marketplace. Liberals try to pretend that they can do it in government. They’re wrong.
Hence the brilliance of our Founders in having a narrowly defined and strictly limited federal government.
They’re not married. That’s how far France has fallen. When we talk conservative in France it’s like they’re calling Bill Clinton conservative.
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