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For sale: France. Price: $6.00 per person-all offers accepted
03.30.05 (10:42 am)   [edit]
French are PUTAIN SHEEP!!
As many of us are already aware, referendums on the EU con-stitution are being held throughout euroland this year, while Her Majesty’s Government is looking at holding Britain's sometime next year.

Unfortunately for Chiraq and his COLLABO Enarques, but fortunately for the rest of the world, the French people are now firmly committed to voting Non! as four polls in the last few weeks indicate that 55% of those French who will vote in the referendum of the wretched EU con-stitution will indeed vote Non!

So what is the self-professed French "elite" to do, other than panic, in order to address this "crisis"?

They are trying to literally BUY support for a "oui" from the French people-and here's the kicker-with their own tax money!

Upon learning last week that the French people have wisely decided in the majority to vote Non! Chiraq ordered his poodle/whipping-boy/can-c arrier the Prime Minister, Raffarin, to immediately enter into “negotiations” with France's five million strong public sector workers in order to give them a pay-rise for their acquiescence in hopefully supporting the "oui" vote...

Well, today it seems the public-sector employees and the French government have come to an agreement on the size of the pay-raise, a "whopping" 0.8% rise over the next two years, or on average about SIX DOLLARS per week per public-sector worker.

So, the going rate for they typical Frenchman selling-out their sovereignty is: $6.00…of their own tax money in the first place.

What is truly shocking is that no French leaders as of yet have spoken out against the whole concept of the French government trying to buy agreement to the EU con-stitution, as opposed to entering into a debate on the EU constitution and letting the people make up their own minds.

I wonder how Britons would react if Tony or Gordo stood up in Parliament and said:

"Ok you lot, how much of your own tax money would you want given back to you so that you would support this EU constituion thingy"?

This is essentially what Chiraq is doing, but there's no outrage, only unions seeing an opportunity to try and squeeze a few paltry pence out of the Bank of France.

Think about it, if Tony or Gordo tried to do the same thing in the UK, how long would they remain in office? A few hours, a couple of days more perhaps? Not longer for sure. Yet across the Channel it is just the "normal" way of doing things...

What would Marianne say if she saw what is going on in France now? For sale cheap: France. Price: $6.00 per person per week-all offers accepted. Pathetic.
 


posted by: Sarah (reply)
post date: 03.30.05 (9:40 pm)

okay, i don't get what's so insidious about this. i get your antipathy towards the french- well, don't "get" it but have picked up on it. but as far as this goes, it seems to be just another case of a nation disagreeing on its fiscal policy. and while you can argue that chirac and his cronies are lousy politicians, and that their economic policy is communistic and/or corrupt, it's not THAT rare that any democratic nation- american, european, whatever- has a debate of this nature, involving politicians pandering somewhat deceptively in order to win support. one side is bound to be wrong. just because britain's debate over this issue would be different from france's doesn't automatically make france "pathetic." it's just part of democracy- you get what you voted for. if someone is unhappy, they deal with it in the next election cycle. if no one is unhappy, there's no problem.



posted by: LynnKramer (reply)
post date: 03.31.05 (7:25 am)

sarah, how about if the potus wanted to surrender the US's soverenty to the UN? Had a vote and the people said no. then the postus asked the truck drivers union how much money they would take to switch their votes and swing the election the other way, and thereby submit the USA to the UN? and what if the union said ok we'll sell out the country for $6 each? and what if potus paid off the union with taxpayers money? you don't see anything wron with this scenario? come on. you like this kind of coruption?



posted by: Sarah (reply)
post date: 03.31.05 (10:22 pm)

Thanks, I understand your argument a lot more clearly now. Sorry.



posted by: BerlinBear (reply)
post date: 04.05.05 (6:26 am)

Umm, is it just me, or is vote buying not an element of *every single* election-year budget everywhere in the world? Gordon Brown, like finance minsters in democratic countries all over the world, gives strategic handouts to groups he wants to get onside every time there is an election coming up. That is how democracy works. And why does democracy work like that? Because *most* voters don't bother to inform themselves about the issues - just as you have clearly not bothered to inform yourself about the EU consitution and what it entails - they just vote on one particular bugbear issue, and which issue it is is often decided by how much money it will put (back) in their pockets. It seems to me that your objection is not actually to France, but to democracy and the way it works.

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