The results are in for the 2012 French and Greek Elections with Socialism being the big winner. In the French Presidential Election, French President Nicolas Sarkozy lost to Francois Hollande in a close race, 51.9% to 48.1%. The polls had been much worse for Sarkozy in the days leading up to the vote as the French media did its best to smear him. In the Greece elections, the pro-bailout New Democracy, Communist and Pasok parties fell short of winning a majority of seats, earning only 150, an even half of the Parliament. Perhaps they will be able to sway one member from another party to join them in forming a new government. Either way, it was very clear now that both France and Greece will be much more difficult in efforts to go along with austerity measures as part of any German-bank led bailout program.
Europe is still in economic trouble. Both England and Spain are ′officially′ in ′double-dip recessions′ now. The unemployment rate in Spain now tops 25%, with Greece not far behind at 22%. When it comes to younger adults, under the age of 25, both Spain and Greece have unemployment rates above 50%. The Euro currency remains very weak, and will probably continue to fall now that 11 of the 17 nations have voted in Socialist-leaning governments.
So we can expect another long, hot summer in Europe, full of riots, nationwide strikes and general civil disorder. Who knows? We may even get to see whole nations default and go bust this summer, too! There is little doubt that at some point, the European Union will collapse, dragging down the global economy with it, including the United States. Of course, we are not far from default either, thanks to Barack Hussein Obama spending money our great grandchildren will hypothetically earn. I hope they will come to appreciate Obama’s generosity with their labor and money 30-40 years from now!
The 2012 French and Greek election results show that the people of Europe have had enough of austerity and want to return to the good old days of Socialism. Of course, they are only committing economic suicide in the process, but then lemmings and moths are self-destructive by nature, too. So we bid French President Nicolas Sarkozy a fond farewell now that he has been defeated by Francois Hollande. Sarkozy can now spend more time with his sexy wife. Meanwhile, France and Greece will be giving Angela Merkel and the German banks a hard time about fiscal responsibility. Perhaps the European Central Bank can borrow the printing plates from the Bank of Zimbabwe and get a head start on making Trillion-Euro bills?
May 6th, 2012 at 11:03 pm
by the way
this site no longer works correctly for opera
and
firefox
which is why i don’t come here much anymore. i almost always use opera, and teh site does not work correctly
May 7th, 2012 at 1:05 am
Brian disappeared about the same time. I was thinking that maybe he was your alter ego.
or
You two actually met face to face and you were awaiting trial!!!
May 7th, 2012 at 1:48 am
lisab
One or two specifics ?
May 7th, 2012 at 2:26 am
Hi, just wanted to tell you, I loved this article. It was practical.
Keep on posting!
May 7th, 2012 at 4:53 am
I use Firefox and the site works just fine. A lot of people criticize the site for being too old fashion in design. But folks do need to keep in mind that most people on the Internet are still using less-than high-speed connections to access it. I know people who are still using old AOL browsers on a 56K land-line!
May 7th, 2012 at 4:58 am
Much like Japan before it, Europe is demographically upside-down.
It is also happening here, but we are a few years behind.
Medicare, Social Security, corporate pensions etc., worked fine when everyone had the decency to die at 65.
Now that people live well into their 80’s and the birth rate is flat, we have an untenable situation.
Yes, the EU will dissolve (it was a flawed plan to begin with) and Germany will understandably be the first to bail.
Add in the fact that the young people that live there are Muslim immigrants and you have a volatile situation.
They don’t assimilate, are rarely a part of the general workforce and will be further
“ghettoized” as the economy fades.
Most will soon elect a right wing government (many already have) that limits immigration and mandates assimilation.
They will soon adopt the tolerance practices that the Germans employed against the Turks many years ago. I think gasoline and matches were part of the equation.
May 7th, 2012 at 5:00 am
You may be right, buzzbee, since an anti-immigration party won its first seats in the Greek Parliament. In France, their anti-immigrant candidate finished third.
May 7th, 2012 at 7:22 am
most people on the Internet are still using less-than high-speed connections to access it.
Most people, or some people? Almost everyone I know uses high speed. In fact, I don’t know anybody who doesn’t – even my tech-challenged parents switched to high speed last year.
May 7th, 2012 at 7:23 am
Also, it’s entirely possible to make a website that loads fast, but doesn’t look like complete ass
May 7th, 2012 at 7:49 am
Amusing. Liberals have always valued form over substance. It’s why only liberal commenters point out spelling errors, and now the yahoos want flashing lights and cartoonish pop for their short attention spans.
May 7th, 2012 at 7:52 am
Blah-blah-blah, liburls, blah-blah-blah. STFU already.
May 7th, 2012 at 8:00 am
Yes I as a liberal have always wanted to try out Spongebob’s soda, but you have to get to the Bikini Bottom and the pressure is too high there.
It would be a good place for all conservative extremists to be. The bottom of the sea.
May 7th, 2012 at 1:06 pm
Its been a few years since I was directly involved in the telecom/IT industry, but just 2 years ago, only about 77-78% of American households had Internet access, and while about 38 Million had cable, nearly 32 Million were still using actual phone lines for access.
Given the state of the economy, I doubt if the percentages have changed radically since then.
May 7th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
See, Snow, even your own parents ONLY switched last year to high-speed access. So you defeat your own argument.
May 7th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Sounds like Klo is ready to join the blobfish!
May 7th, 2012 at 2:12 pm
See, Snow, even your own parents ONLY switched last year to high-speed access. So you defeat your own argument.
I guess you’re right in a way. I was just straining to think of somebody I know who is not using high speed, and my parents come the closest – being the most recent to switch over (and they swore they never would because of the slight increase in cost).
May 7th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
My wife still uses AOL on our 5 year old HP desktop.
I dont know why, its pure torture.
She performs no maintenance of any kind.
I have one MAC and one Dell which both of them are blocked from using unless the boy needs it for school.
I learned the hard way. Animal p0rn,and home made videos comes with all kinds of spys and diseases.
So, once again theres some shmuck that convinced everyone he knows how to make socialism work and all his predecessors got it wrong.
Yo gotta admit, its and idea that always sells well during recessions with large governments that use autocratic methods/leaders.
If the needy is the majority, were fcked