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Forums - Politics Discussion - 2017 French Election (Macron Wins 66%)

 

Who do you think will be the next President of France?

Macron 167 69.87%
 
Le Pen 72 30.13%
 
Total:239
poklane said:
First thing Macron should do is order a full investigation into Le Pen's ties with Russia and impose more sanctions on Russia.

He was still elected...



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Thank god the French have better sense than the US.



barneystinson69 said:
palou said:

Most major banks were short on the american housing bubble. They told customers everything's going well, because highest profits can be made with people that have problems paying their debts.

 

And, in the end, the government bailed out most banks. In average, the whole situation was quite profitable. They were handing out billions upon billions in bonuses for years.

Yes, because people would've lost their life savings if they weren't. We saw that with Lehman brothers. These people were stupid enough not to have foresight in what their actions would do, and unfortunently they got away with it. They were still idiots, and its why I do my best to avoid banks when I can. These people hardly have a goddamn in giving financial advice, and in the end we saw the consequences of that. Oh and BTW, most of Europe has insanely high youth unemployement, thanks in part to the great recession. So I guess they did win

If you take the bank managment as mostly selfish (which is the case, as is for the majority of humans), their actions were fairly rational.

 

Yes, they caused an economic crisis, but they got insanely rich just before that. They literally had bonuses 5 times their salary for a good 5-6 years, thanks to the high profits they were making off of high-risk loans. I don't see how engaging in that should be considered stupid. And I'm pretty sure that they new that the US could not afford to let them fail.

 

The american government was stupid for so badly deregulating mortages.

The bankers played a game of hot potato, where the potato shed a few million on each throw and exploded in the faces of the public. 



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Barozi said:
Expected landslide victory

It was excepted before the false flag attack happened on Macrons emails, Marine would have won. 



Goatseye said:
VideoGameAccountant said:

The goal with immigration is to bring them all here then give them amnesty. This is how California went from being a Red state to a Blue state. You are also demographically replacing small government population for big government one.

On economics, the stock market crashed when Trump won. Now the Dow Jones has passed 20K and is still going up, job reports are beating expectations, more companies are investing in the US and the debt is declining. Macron benefits the political and banking elite. Of course they will be happy. But importing economic migrants will only lead to more dependent people who the taxpayers will have to spend more to take care off. Debt will increase, taxes will increase, business spending will decline. All of this makes for a bad economy. France is heading straight towards the third world. 

Trump has a cabinet full of ex Goldman Sachs operatives and Koch appointed puppets.

And about job reports going up, what is the Trump policy put in place to incentivate job growth?

"But importing economic migrants will only lead to more dependent people who the taxpayers will have to spend more to take care off." You mean like we're hostage to military complex and oil companies?

The reason the US is improving is due to Supply Side Economics. Trump is peeling back regulations which hurt small businesses (big businesses love them since they reduce competition). Trump's tax cuts will also boost the economy for the same reason (people have more to invest and government squander the money they get anyway). Trump supports have complained about the Goldman Sachs people, but they are mostly in roles dealing with the economy. At the same time, we didn't elect a Rothschild banker like France did.

You also think we are hostage to oil companies, so I assume you don't know much about what I'm discussing anyway.



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WagnerPaiva said:
palou said:

:) Thanks

 

Next one: what coaltion in the german election?

I will go with whoever you say it will win. Next year, the Lord willing, I wanna bet about the Brazil election though. That one is close to my heart =)

I am rooting for João Doria or Bolsonaro. Tons of candidates, like 8.

Isn't the brazilian political situation a huge mess right now? How am I supposed to predict anything in that?



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VideoGameAccountant said:
Goatseye said:

Trump has a cabinet full of ex Goldman Sachs operatives and Koch appointed puppets.

And about job reports going up, what is the Trump policy put in place to incentivate job growth?

"But importing economic migrants will only lead to more dependent people who the taxpayers will have to spend more to take care off." You mean like we're hostage to military complex and oil companies?

The reason the US is improving is due to Supply Side Economics. Trump is peeling back regulations which hurt small businesses (big businesses love them since they reduce competition). Trump's tax cuts will also boost the economy for the same reason (people have more to invest and government squander the money they get anyway). Trump supports have complained about the Goldman Sachs people, but they are mostly in roles dealing with the economy. At the same time, we didn't elect a Rothschild banker like France did.

You also think we are hostage to oil companies, so I assume you don't know much about what I'm discussing anyway.

I would think US was improving, due to being on a stretch of more than 70 months of adding jobs after a disastrous recession which was costing us more than money.

Trump tax cuts will come after he disembowls American of an ok healthcare policy (could've been way better if not for Republican obstructionism). Reagan's policies have shown that trickle down and deregulation don't work because of the corporate greed culture. As someone interested in starting a small business, Trump's tax cut proposal is good but will open a whole new headache of a loophole and it will cost government funding majorly.

Stop with that Rothschild nonsense, you got people like Koch family which served Stalin, Hitler and founded John Birch society, which advocated for the government to let private citizens to decide whether or not to sell another human being. Anyone remember last week Trump saying that Civil War was not necessary? He got it from the Kochs which are members of John Bircher society.

"You also think we are hostage to oil companies, so I assume you don't know much about what I'm discussing anyway." Well, explain then. I'm all ears.



Of course, the French do have common sense unlike our dumb racist greedy selves.



palou said:
WagnerPaiva said:

I will go with whoever you say it will win. Next year, the Lord willing, I wanna bet about the Brazil election though. That one is close to my heart =)

I am rooting for João Doria or Bolsonaro. Tons of candidates, like 8.

Isn't the brazilian political situation a huge mess right now? How am I supposed to predict anything in that?

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WagnerPaiva said:
tiffac said:

I think you may have jinxed her by calling an Octopus a Squid. :p

Oh noes! 

 

I told ya you would jinx her xD