France: the old order changeth

[billc]

the hero of France, another limousine lefty...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...-owns-three-homes-on-the-riviera-7737519.html

France's new Socialist president owns three holiday homes in the Riviera resort of Cannes, it emerged today.
Francois Hollande, 57, who “dislikes the rich” and wants to revolutionise his country with high taxes and an onslaught against bankers, is in fact hugely wealthy himself.
His assets were published today in the Official Journal, the gazette which contains verified information about France’s government.
To the undoubted embarrassment of the most Left-wing leader in Europe, and a man who styles himself as “Mr Normal”, they are valued at almost £1 million.
It will also reinforce accusations that Hollande is a “gauche caviar”, or “Left-wing caviar” — the Gallic equivalent of a champagne Socialist.
Among his other assets are three current accounts in French banks — two with global giant Société Générale and one with the Postal Bank.
But it is the fabulous property portfolio which is causing the greatest stir among millions of ordinary French people who voted for Hollande over the conservative Nicolas Sarkozy last Sunday.
Mr Hollande regularly attacked the “bling-bling” presidency of Mr Sarkozy, whose multi-millionaire lifestyle with Italian-born heiress Carla Bruni contributed to his humiliating election defeat after just one term in office.
As well as the spacious Paris apartment he shares with his lover Valerie Trierweiler, Mr Hollande owns a palatial villa in Mougins, the hill-top Cannes suburb where artist Pablo Picasso used to live.

Yeah, this guy is going to fix the problems...

 

[Sukerkin]

Honestly. BillC ...

... no, that'll do; I don't need to say any more.

 

[Tez3]

There is none so blind as those who will not see.

 

[billc]

Some thoughts on the new guy in charge in france...and socialsim...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/socialism_by_any_other_name_is_still_socialism.html

And the newly elected socialist François Hollande of France offers nothing more -- and nothing less. He vows to raise taxes on corporations and French citizens that earn more than one million euros annually. His administration will wage war upon the privately operated "world of finance" by implementing strict government regulation upon banks and insurance companies. He looks to arbitrarily set the prices of French labor costs without consideration to supply-and-demand realities that naturally dictate those prices. And he has offered the promise that he will expand the central government's role in education and retirement benefits via public subsidization.
Now, as an honest and observant critic might point out, not one of those initiatives would conflict with Marx's outline for the deconstruction a capitalist society in preparation for its eventual replacement with a Communist one. That framework is readily found in the Communist Manifesto. And since Hollande is following formulaic socialist doctrine to propose the same solution to the same problem that every other socialist reformer has offered throughout history, it is safe to say that little separates what he offers from what has been offered by socialists past.

But despite the Western media's warm reception of this "pragmatic socialism" as something new, the disturbing truth is that socialism has always been always presented this way. It has always been offered as a pragmatic [COLOR=#009900 !important]solution[/COLOR] to the same exact problem -- the disproportionate distribution of wealth in a capitalist society that is deemed unfair by a political faction that claims to be offering a new, revolutionary path. And that solution, presented now as it has always been, is for a nation to put its faith in the revolutionary political faction by giving state administrators the mandate to even the score by taking property from those who have too much and redistributing it to those who have too little. The idea is uniformly that the new government will succeed where individuals, left to their own devices in the past, have failed. This is the very core of socialism in all its forms, and the foundation of all the evils it has wrought.

 

[Tez3]

Some thoughts on the new guy in charge in france...and socialsim...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/socialism_by_any_other_name_is_still_socialism.html

And? He set out his agenda and the French voted for him. If you don't think he's right don't vote for him...oh wait you aren't a French citizen so guess what? your opinion doesn't count lol!

 

[billc]

On Greek Nazis...

http://pjmedia.com/blog/underestimating-the-new-nazis-in-greece-the-golden-dawn-party/

The organization owes its advent in part to a band of new Eckarts, men who use religion to mask their antisemitic ideology and socialist economic theory in Europe and the United States. The organization’s growing popularity demonstrates how quickly small numbers and risible doctrines can achieve power given favorable social factors.

The ENF embraces an economic policy that opposes the “effects of Zionism.” It advocates distributism, a social philosophy erroneously claiming to be based on that of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI, who outlined solutions for the ill effects of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of Communism.
Distributism has much in common with communism, particularly its Utopian promise that the world will be in harmony when human beings share equally the means and fruits of meaningful work. Radical distributists wax eloquent concerning the role of “Zionist international banking empires” in the present state of Europe, but are shy when asked for details concerning the distribution of presently-held “Zionist” wealth. The implementation of distributism requires stringent state involvement

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Holland’s American business partner spread not only the anti-capitalist economic theory espoused by the ENF, but its antisemitism as well. On September 12, 2001, with the nation transfixed in horror at the sight of the Islamic terrorist attacks, Holland’s protégé wrote the following for his website The Legion of St. Louis:

Doesn't sound like they support free market capitalism to me...

Why do they sound like they belong to the OWS movement?