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'Champagne socialist' Francois Hollande...in a £12,000-an-hour private jet (trunc)
Daily Mail UK ^

Posted on 05/08/2012 9:47:50 AM PDT by Perdogg

Francois Hollande has triggered accusations of hypocrisy by making his first trip as France's newly elected socialist president in a £12,000-an-hour private jet.

The left-wing leader - who has promised massive tax hikes for the rich - was whisked into Paris in the luxurious Falcon 900 aircraft within hours of winning the election on Sunday night

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; hollande; socialist
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£12,000 = $19,000 = e14,900
1 posted on 05/08/2012 9:47:55 AM PDT by Perdogg
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Sounds like a typical limousine Leftist in the mode of Barry and Mootchelle. They’re entitled, doncha know, because they are smarter than everyone else. (And they are smarter than the 51% of morons who voted for them.)


2 posted on 05/08/2012 9:50:36 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Perdogg
Hahahaha.
Vive La France!
They WILL do it their own way.
3 posted on 05/08/2012 9:51:39 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Perdogg

All socialists are Champagne or Dacha socialists.

It’s you and I who get to be poor.


4 posted on 05/08/2012 9:52:07 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Perdogg

The only thing socialists know is to spend other peoples money,see Obama&Co.


5 posted on 05/08/2012 9:53:10 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Perdogg
The left-wing leader - who has promised massive tax hikes for the rich...

People never learn. The British tried this in the '70's, leading to a massive exodus of productive British citizens, the so-called Brain Drain, many to the Jersey Isles. When the brilliant Parliament saw what was happening, instead of repealing the tax hikes, they expanded the coverage to the Jersey Isles. As expected, the "rich" bailed out and left a void in Britain that still persists today. The only difference here is that I don't care about the French.

6 posted on 05/08/2012 9:53:36 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Perdogg
This is Hollande’s idea of rejecting austerity. No austerity for him.

What was his campaign slogan, “Let's party until we starve!”?

7 posted on 05/08/2012 9:55:58 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: econjack

Even John Lennon “Imagined there’s no taxes” and moved to the US.


8 posted on 05/08/2012 9:55:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Mister Da

Or was his slogan “Screw our Grandchildren, Let’s Party!”


9 posted on 05/08/2012 9:57:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Start of the Weekly Cabinet Meeting

07/05/2012
Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting today :

CLIP

"I would also like to congratulate French President-elect Francois Hollande. Relations between Israel and France have always been friendly.[my comment might point to "caught off mike" between Obama/Sarkozy] They will remain such and I look forward to meeting with him in order to continue this link, which is important both bilaterally and internationally."

http://bit.ly/JcJJ1z

10 posted on 05/08/2012 9:59:00 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: Perdogg

“He earned it” - Debbie Wasserman Schultz


11 posted on 05/08/2012 9:59:54 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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To: txrefugee

Yep, right up their alley. A waste of time and money.


12 posted on 05/08/2012 10:04:11 AM PDT by b4its2late (Patience is not a virtue, it is a waste of time.)
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To: dfwgator
Coulter Tweeted a little while ago:

"Ann Coulter ‏ @AnnCoulter A sentence you'll never hear in France:
"FINALLY, a day off!!" (comma)

http://bit.ly/JtNpv1

;)

13 posted on 05/08/2012 10:04:32 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: Perdogg

My communist, British uncle, who sent his kids to a Polish Young Pioneers camp for the summer, back in the 1970s, was a labor union big shot.

He retired early, about ten years ago, with 3 years accumulated “sick time,” abandoned his family, and set off for an around-the-world cruise on his yacht with his young girlfriend.

I guarantee you that, in his mind, he did it all for the proletariat.

My father was Polish, and couldn’t bring himself to be in the same place with him. He would skip family events to avoid him. I think he was afraid he’d kill him.


14 posted on 05/08/2012 10:05:31 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: Perdogg

Right out of the Limo Liberal playbook.


15 posted on 05/08/2012 10:05:56 AM PDT by grb
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My father was Polish, and couldn’t bring himself to be in the same place with him. He would skip family events to avoid him. I think he was afraid he’d kill him

I don't blame him one bit......Poles will kill a Commie just for fun.

16 posted on 05/08/2012 10:09:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Perdogg

17 posted on 05/08/2012 10:16:39 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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I guess their high speed TGV wasn’t good enough for him.
I wonder who paid for the trip..or was it complements of some rich guy? Probably a Swiss registered plane with unknown owner.


18 posted on 05/08/2012 10:29:51 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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"I wonder who paid for the trip..or was it complements of some rich guy? Probably a Swiss registered plane with unknown owner."

It no longer matters.

It seems once people are 'elected', they ... just ... GET stuff.

And then they get to appoint people that over-ride "the People" and THEY get stuff.

So ..

I believe we're seeing the developement of the system that will allow the structure that will usher in Anti-Christ.

I really can't see beyond that.

19 posted on 05/08/2012 10:38:34 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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as opposed to Dominique Strauss-Kahn who was a $12,000 a night Hooker Socialist...


20 posted on 05/08/2012 10:39:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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