Look for the financial markets to crash tomorrow.
Hmmmm....we may be seeing Germans marching through Paris again in about a year. (Just kidding....)
See how well socialism works when there is a lack of "other people's money" to redistribute.
Watching the race between Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande reminds me of watching the race between Barack Obama and Willard Romney...
France just stepped off the cliff.
Can hardly wait to see the 75% taxes
take effect.
But then again, we are next in line.
Looks like France will be going the way of Greece and Spain. It’s going to get really ugly across the pond very soon.
Questions for those who would know:
1.Will he have carte blanche to further the socialist agenda?
2.If so,how soon are the socialist policies to be implemented?
The entire European Union has serious economic problems owing to their socialistic policies. How is a socialist president going to save France and other members of the European Union from the self destructive forces of socialism?
Will the USA bail them out again? Or, are all of us on a steeper part of that "slippery slope" toward certain economic collapse? Socialism fails 100% of the time it is tried.
We will be watching France's new government with great interest.
So what would be the difference exactly? France has always been a socialist cesspool. Sarkozy was no conservative reformer, that's for damn sure.
What does France have to offer the world anyhow? They used to be known for their wine and cuisine but now California, Australia, and even Argentina are making better and more affordable wines and as such, French wines take up less and less shelf space in our wine stores. French restaurants have pretty much disappeared from the American landscape as our palates have moved on to more exotic cuisine (i.e. Oriental, Mexican) or just plain old Texas-style steakhouses and barbecue.
I always wonder how long a system like this can sustain itself. Less people working and producing, more and more demands.
The country eventually goes bankrupt, I guess. And when it is bankrupt and can’t pay, you end up with angry dependent citizens rioting in the streets, no economy to speak of because any industry has been driven away and out of existence, and a populous with no skills to speak of because they have been on the free ride train their whole lives.
Once again, the people vote for whoever promises more free stuff!
There goes an anti-Iranian ally. The welfare-funded, antisemitic, muslim vote probably tipped the scales.
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Sadly he reflects the intent of the people. Democracy at work.
Maybe Socialism will work THIS time?
Did the French (and Muzzies) vote for him to make things worse?
To tell you the truth it doesn’t matter which one they voted for just like with the Mittens/Obama match up. Either one takes you down Loser Road.
The carnivalesque/Felliniesque circus music on the soundtrack gave that away. And while actors portrayed Sarkozy, Chirac, and Villepin, nobody portrayed the socialist candidates.
In the film Sarkozy is maniacally ambitious and not particularly principled, though the actor gave his performance some nuance and even created some sympathy for Sarko, particularly when his wife started walking out on him.
In so far as ideology is concerned, according to the movie Sarkozy was a reformer, "liberal, atlantiste, et communautaire" -- meaning free-market oriented, NATO- and America-friendly, and pro-EU (however much we may think the European Union anti-free-market and anti-American, it does represent a challenge to inward-looking France).
But Sarkozy had to hide that and appeal to France's protectionist and welfarist tendencies, because fear of change and desire for protection and subsidies are stronger in France than any desire for economic freedom or free competition.
I guess that's what people are calling "socialism" though it doesn't have much to do with the classical socialist program of public ownership and control of the means of production or equal incomes.
What I take away from the film and today's results is that that French desire for protection and support, that fear of competition and change was too strong to buck. I don't know if Sarkozy really tried very hard once he got in. But his own growing personal unpopularity and those strong French tendencies probably would have made much in the way of reform impossible.
That’s like Cali re electing Jerry Brown.