Posted on 04/30/2013 6:43:23 PM PDT by markomalley
A war of words has broken out in Europe between Francois Hollande's socialist party in France and the Christian Democrats led by Angela Merkel in Germany. The split between the two nations has become so bitter that some papers are suggesting the allies may be "heading for divorce."
The spat began last week when the French socialists leaked a draft of a party policy paper which attacked the "selfish intransigence of Mrs Merkel." The 21 page paper argued that England and Germany were responsible for the problems in Europe and were pushing right-wing politics of "deregulation, deindustrialisation and disintegration."
Perhaps the most strident quote from the socialist paper reads "The [EU] community project is now scarred by an alliance of convenience between the Thatcherite accents of the current British prime minister who sees Europe only as à la carte and about rebates and the selfish intransigence of Chancellor Merkel who thinks of nothing else but the savings of depositors in Germany, the trade balance recorded in Berlin and her electoral future."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
That right there is the classic argument between workers and takers.
When was the last time Germany worried about what France had to say?
“If Socialist understood economics, they wouldn’t be Socialist.”.....Friedrich von Hayek, Nobel Prize, Economics
Dear Germany,
You may keep France this time.
Signed,
America
Well, you know that it would be just a matter of time before the UK and German workers tired of essentially supporting/subsidizing the French slacker workforce.
Dear Germany,
You may keep France this time.
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I’m pretty sure that’s the LAST thing the Germans want to get stuck with.
Three of the links cited in the excerpt alone are to British publications. Quite expected.
Five links in the whole piece to UK publications. ;-)
makers and takers
the argument is going on here as well
they can have englanistan this time too.
Like two whores arguing who is more chaste!
It’s like Lindsay Lohan calling Paris Hilton a coke head slut.
Ich bin kein Bumloser
Not guilty
Straight up, only I don’t think Germany is that stupid this time. France has a little islamic problem on its hands and Germany has no J00’s to kill right about now.
LOL they are probably both right LMAO
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