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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
WagnerPaiva on 07 May 2017

I lost my octopus-winner-picker powers =(



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WagnerPaiva on 07 May 2017
palou said:
barneystinson69 said:

The same people who allowed for the housing market to crash, and said that the banks were too big to fail? Please...

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.

Congratulations brother, you are the superior winner-picker for sure.



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palou on 07 May 2017
WagnerPaiva 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.

Congratulations brother, you are the superior winner-picker for sure.

:) Thanks

 

Next one: what coaltion in the german election?



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WagnerPaiva on 07 May 2017
palou said:
WagnerPaiva said:

Congratulations brother, you are the superior winner-picker for sure.

:) 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.



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VideoGameAccountant on 07 May 2017
palou said:
VideoGameAccountant said:

There won't be another election. Immigrants vote left. Happens in US too. France as a country is gone. More (economic) migrants will flood the country requiring more and more aid from the tax basis. This will further squeeze the productive class in society killing job growth. The government will grow larger, youth unemployment will get worse. There is no economic future for France. Le Pen was a socialist, but at least solving immigration would have given the country another 10 years to solve everything else. Macron will import more and more voters and the country will descend into a third world hellhole.

The market for generation 9 has fundamentally shifted. Europe (sans the UK) will not be a viable market anymore.

As a matter of fact, immigrants, particularly the poor, uneducated, barely vote at all (less than 30%)

 

 

As for economic future, the stock markets, most people qualified to talk about economics, strongly disagree with you. Both the Euro and CAC40 exploded after Macron's victory in the first round.

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. 



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Goatseye on 07 May 2017
VideoGameAccountant said:
palou said:

As a matter of fact, immigrants, particularly the poor, uneducated, barely vote at all (less than 30%)

 

 

As for economic future, the stock markets, most people qualified to talk about economics, strongly disagree with you. Both the Euro and CAC40 exploded after Macron's victory in the first round.

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?



dark_gh0st_b0y on 07 May 2017
SubiyaCryolite said:
The French just took a look at Trump and May and said "Nope!"

pretty much

also, Le Pen made absolutely no sense, she's just xenophobic and that's it

how exactly would she help the economy, by getting out of the euro and the EU, please, this is the perfect timing for a president like Macron, many UK based companies are considering EU bases, and the first choice is Germany or France, so enforcing EU views is attracing investors at this point

smart French, they relealized the mess Le Pen and her views would cause...



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barneystinson69 on 07 May 2017
palou said:
barneystinson69 said:

The same people who allowed for the housing market to crash, and said that the banks were too big to fail? Please...

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



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poklane on 07 May 2017

First thing Macron should do is order a full investigation into Le Pen's ties with Russia and impose more sanctions on Russia.



NobleTeam360 on 07 May 2017

Woah, turned out to be a landslide victory.