Forum Post: We are going to end up like France.
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 11, 2011, 8:19 p.m. EST by OWSNewPartyTakeNY2012
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Populist revolution happened in France and nobody want's to talk about it because the situation in America is to similar.
Free health care, free college, average work is 35 hrs week... nice. Too bad there are so many brainwashed Americans that will say that these services are somehow terrible for them and their children.
You mean THIS France-
"This past Monday, Sarkozy's prime minister, François Fillon, announced a tough new round of austerity measures, saying, in one translation, that "the 2012 budget will be one of the most rigorous budgets that France has seen since 1945." The announcement is a clear bid to save France's AAA rating, which Moody's has threatened with a negative outlook if France's participation in the eurozone bailouts gets too big for its budget.
The tough part is that austerity measures will take money out of an already weak French economy. France's estimated growth rate for next year is a measly 1 percent -- percentage-wise, a big drop down from the previously estimated 1.75 percent. Austerity measures could eat away at the economy to result in no growth at all"
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/in-france-euro-crisis-may-bring-the-end-of-a-political-era/248299/
"Weak growth has forced the President Nicolas Sarkozy into a second round of austerity measures in less than three months as the country strives to cut its deficit with its triple-A credit rating coming under pressure. The new measures announced Monday include raising sales taxes and tweaking income tax brackets to garner revenue from rising incomes." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204358004577027544144242150.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Yeah. France is living the good life. Not.
Sorry Europe, you can't have the European Union anymore because bankers are asshole that ruin everything.
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Nope. We are going to end up like Greece if we don't watch it.
We are not going to end like any place but America. We still have spirit, drive and free thinking innovative people - even some of the more intelligent people in this movement. Americans are too creative. The industrious of other countries come here. We have drive. Even if we disagree on things, we will land on our feet.
are you a professional sociologist?
I'm a professional traveler. So, yes, I do study societies up close in my own way. Just back from a recent trip hanging out in Syntagma Square. Quite interestng. I'm also an optimist and sort of old. Been through a lot on this planet.