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France, Greece and Germany election results send austerity shockwaves through Europe
The Telegraph ^ | 5/6/2012 | Bruno Waterfield, Devorah Lauter in Paris

Posted on 05/06/2012 8:30:13 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

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To: bruinbirdman

-—voters demands for a new approach had finally become too great to ignore.——

“New”? As in tried and failed? And tried and failed? And...


51 posted on 05/07/2012 5:08:57 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: Cronos
Yep, the French just vote themselves more money from a broke Treasury, just wait until they try and collect.
52 posted on 05/07/2012 5:14:08 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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——what has to happen to the whole world is massive inflation.....I don’t see how else the world’s debt gets paid....——

Or default, which is also painful. I prefer default, because it would eliminate future entitlement (enslavement) spending, rather than steal from the accumulated wealth of the productive.

Inflation won’t affect the sponging community.


53 posted on 05/07/2012 5:17:42 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: Bellflower

-—It’s hard to think that so many probably fairly educated people can be so utterly clueless.——

It’s a case of wishful thinking or desire overruling the intellect, which is why moral-instruction is as, or more important than, intellectual formation.


54 posted on 05/07/2012 5:22:46 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: JediJones

I think Sarkozy was trying to cut government spending, and an electorate of socialists doesn’t want to hear that. Hollande promises to “tax the rich” at up to 75% so people don’t have to give up their “free” stuff.


55 posted on 05/07/2012 6:13:18 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: kabar

dollar will get better for awhile because there is no other stable place to put it.


56 posted on 05/07/2012 6:16:26 AM PDT by edcoil (It is not over until I win.)
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German bunds


57 posted on 05/07/2012 8:20:06 AM PDT by kabar
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bonds? Not if they are going to be used to funnel money the the EU that will never been seen.


58 posted on 05/07/2012 8:51:24 AM PDT by edcoil (It is not over until I win.)
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To: edcoil
No, German bunds.

The German government's federal bond. The bund is issued to the public as a way for the German government to finance its spending. Like a T-Bill.

59 posted on 05/07/2012 9:07:06 AM PDT by kabar
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To: bruinbirdman
GovernMental austerity first, THEN conservative prosperity!!!

Austerity breeds posterity!!!

60 posted on 05/07/2012 3:19:54 PM PDT by SierraWasp ("GovernMental austerity first, THEN conservative prosperity!!! Austerity breeds properity!!!)
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The elite commies are not clueless or dumb. Remember a few things: This is how they make their living. They are godless. Ends justify the means.

True enough about the elite, but on the other hand, to be Godless is the epitome of being clueless. It seems most of the more average people are also Godless, and operate out of a combination of greed and stupidity.

61 posted on 05/08/2012 12:28:36 AM PDT by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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