Wednesday, Sep 26, 2007

Mr Fillon showed no intention of rowing back from the political furore he triggered last week when he suggested France was

msnbc.msn.com: French public finances 'critical'

French public finances 'critical'
France's public finances have reached a "critical" state and are unsustainable, François Fillon, the prime minister, said on Monday as the government took measures to plug a yawning gap in its welfare budget.

Posted by chris @ 04:42 PM (231 views) Add Comment

3 Comments

1. alan said...

You mean the French have politicians worse than John Prescott?

Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:00PM Report Comment
 

2. dohousescrashinthewoods said...

They clearly haven't learnt the new paradigm from the US as we have - print money, inflate like hell and fiddle the CPI.

Works a treat. You have to suppress M3 data and make sure no one is intelligent enough to understand "public sector net borrowing". Oh, and generally keep everyone panicking about anything in particular, stressed, working long hours, and ensure the financial sector herds them to within one pay-cheque from starvation and financial disaster so they haven't the time, the mind, the guts or the energy to walk away from the telly and get feisty.

Any that do, you roundly dismiss as doom-mongers, religious extremists and general nutters. You can always detain them for 90 days if needs be and if they don't play nicely, lock them up under the mental health act on the grounds that they would be mad to jeopardise financial stability.

Welcome to the free world!

Thursday, September 27, 2007 09:31AM Report Comment
 

3. Mark said...

maybe the EU should offer subs to them, after all farmers and banks have been getting it..lol

Thursday, September 27, 2007 09:43AM Report Comment
 

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