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2006-11-05 Europe

Regarding The Day that France went Bankrupt

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Posted by ryuge 2006-11-05 00:28|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And in possibly related news, see the article immediately following this one...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-11-05 01:27|| 2006-11-05 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 All I can say is... ouch! French Rantburgers, have I mentioned how nice Nevada is? Not only do we have extremely limited taxes, but hookers, assault weapons, and slot machines too.

Posted by Secret Master 2006-11-05 01:56|| 2006-11-05 01:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Belgium and Italy are in far worse shape than France. All that French nuclear power does wonders for keeping down France's external debt.

Posted by phil_b 2006-11-05 04:28|| 2006-11-05 04:28|| Front Page Top

#4 We are in 2013. The states coffers are empty and the French have been reduced to selling off their family treasures to make ends meet.

But they'll still be giving money to Paleos.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-11-05 05:06|| 2006-11-05 05:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh! They're talking financially bankrupt. I wondered, because morally and culturally, the French went bankrupt decades ago.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-11-05 08:57|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-11-05 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 What's funny is that jaffré is a pure System man; for him to speak that way shows something is changing. And by the way, a less-publicized book written by an ex-fiancial inspector (high ranking civil servants for life) said that given current trends, and using Argentina as a benchmark, bankruptcy woudl be circa 2010, not 2012. There was also a recent fiction book, which had a modicum of success in libertarian-conservative ranks, about the crash of the french System... and Claude Reichman had a book about a metaphorical collapse of the bureaucracy/technocracy, in which the bloated french State collapses, and nobody notice, or cares, except the insiders and profiteers, as Reagan joked about.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-05 09:14|| 2006-11-05 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 If France goes under to debt, does that drag the entire EU system down with it ? Like the electrical grid ? Maybe they ought to pay some attention to the 7 million loafers they've got in banilues who do nothing but torch cars as a hobby. Deporting these leaches may do wonders for the treasury.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-11-05 10:53|| 2006-11-05 10:53|| Front Page Top

#8 I thought the whole rationale for the Euro was so that the French could ride the coattails of the stronger German economy and delay collapse until the whole of the Euro economies could no longer sustain governmental financial commitments. Too bad German unification placed a huge burden on the German economy.

Posted by ed 2006-11-05 11:38|| 2006-11-05 11:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe they ought to pay some attention to the 7 million loafers they've got in banilues who do nothing but torch cars as a hobby

You might like to know that a conservative forum member said a RG (police intelligence) friend told him there was actually 18 millions muslims in France, not the official 6 millions (this was the official number back in the 80's, there's NO way this has not changed since, not with 300 000 to 500 000 immigrants coming in each year).

LOTS of salt, of course.
But even the conservative officious number of muslims in France (I won't say "french muslims", that's an oxymoron) is 8-10 millions.

But the 18 millions might be true, who knows, and would explain MUCH (basically, France would had put herself in an impossible situation, thanks to her Enlightened Elites and the EUrabia).

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-05 11:42|| 2006-11-05 11:42|| Front Page Top

#10 I think the correct estimate is 8-9 million Moslems of North African origin in France. Plus at least 400,000 converts. If you look at stats for first names of babies in France over the last few years the Moslems are nowhere near 30% of the population -- 15% and rowing fast seems a good guess though. This is all assuming that there is accurate information about what's happening in the lawless ~~medinas~~ suburbs.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2006-11-05 17:53|| 2006-11-05 17:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe they ought to pay some attention to the 7 million loafers they've got in banilues who do nothing but torch cars as a hobby. Deporting these leaches may do wonders for the treasury.

That would require logique, something that may well have perished in France along with René Descartes. France's stubborn efforts to triangulate against America with its EAD (European Arab Dialogue) will likely be the death of it. Idiots.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-05 20:28|| 2006-11-05 20:28|| Front Page Top

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