MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Frustration with Hollande at its peak; Thursday he will address the French people
French President Francois Hollande's popularity rating has fallen to its lowest level since he came to power, according to a poll released a day before he is due to address the nation to ask for patience as he attempts to revive the economy. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWell who'd have thought he would be struggling?
Mar 28th, 2013 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I mean, he promised to revert a debt crisis by spending more, why is that not working?
Your duck l'orange is coming home to roost France (and Europe in general). Your public is accustomed to public services you can't afford, your holidays are too long, your working day too short.
Unfortunately the only way out is that things need to get as bad as they are in Spain before reality slaps the public to its senses.
How about starting with a 40 hour work week? Productivity? What's that?
Mar 28th, 2013 - 02:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Read the two people above, they live to work. They will die, and will have not had a moment of personal growth in their lives.
Mar 28th, 2013 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chile and the UK are machine societies. It may be good for economics (but even there the UK is really no better off than France, except the French can actually enjoy life a little), but they are empty of anyhing else meaningful. Which is why no one ever says “I'll go to the UK or Chile for the culture, or the food, or the art, or the nightlife, or the joie-de-vivre”.
Toby,
Mar 28th, 2013 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You really are slipping. Out of sympathy I will humor you.
The UK has won more Nobel prizes per capita than any other country. More modestly here in Chile with have 2 Nobel prizes for literature. You have how many....oh...zero? Really? That is a poor showing or maybe our 2 is a good showing for a country with “no culture”.
I'll troll for you my son.
Nobel prizes are corrupt. I'm glad Argentina has none.
Mar 28th, 2013 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You didn't exactly refute my statement. Because it is true. You “machine” societies love to berate those “joie-de-vivre” societies about how they don't work, etc.
I will be the first to admit that societies that work to live don't do as well economically as those that live to work. But they actually smell the roses at least once in their lives. Machine societies are just that, wastelands of numbness, with only shiny buildings (with no soul) to show for it.
Toby,
Mar 28th, 2013 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Nobel prizes are corrupt. I'm glad Argentina has none.”
Loser. What corrupt mechanism did we use in the 1950s to win Gabriela a Nobel prize?
You used to have some good arguments, now you just lamely try to knock everything. It is very ungracious.
I wish we were were more of a “machine” society if by that you mean economically prosperous. I can't even be bothered to point out all the very wealthy countries that have the highest quality.
Would you try to argue that 50 years ago when Argentina was more of a “machine” society than Chile that our food and culture was better than yours? Ridiculous isn't it.
Well the long weekend has started and I am off to enjoy a full 4 days away from the machine.
Francois Hollande's
Mar 28th, 2013 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They voted for change,
But may not like what comes,
He may yet be forced to scrap the carrier, and other ships,
Making a mockery of the new agreement,
Troops loses, planes on the scrap heap.
We are watching.
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Mar 28th, 2013 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes I would actually. Back when Argentina was a machine society, there was no culture, there was no food, it was beef for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, literally. There was no interest in anything but export and profit. A soul-less, numb, automaton society that just lived from a day to the next to eat a slab of beef, wor k 6 hours on the land or a factory, have a slab of beef, work another 6 hours, go home, eat a slab of beef, sleep. Send anything you make extra for survival out to Europe (and back then many European economies where surprisingly dependent on Argentine remittences... check the Great Panic of 1890 how it affected Europe).
Peron wisely ended all that. We discovered that you live only once.
Toby, as Manuel said... You know nooothing.... Prat
Mar 28th, 2013 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Those “non-machine” you-only-live-once, “you need to enjoy life” types are always crying about the inequality of incomes in life and how incomes need to be redistributed. To them.
Mar 29th, 2013 - 02:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Here's the real world secret to kicking-back and enjoying life to it's fullest.
Work your ass off!
Toby is so jealous. he covets the things and places he sees every day on the internet and then lashes out at his betters for having them, living in a free society that can travel wherever they want and whenever they want.
Mar 29th, 2013 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is so painfully obvious to the rest of us.
Reminds me of a young Think.
Additionally, those “non-machine” you-only-live-once, “you need to enjoy life” types ultimately have to resort to lying to get their money because nobody wants to pay a guy for sitting on his ass and doing nothing but enjoying a relaxed life.
Mar 30th, 2013 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Then, everybody begins to lie about what they've accomplished and nothing actually gets done. Then everything starts looking pretty shabby compared to the situation of the people who work. But the lying has set in, and continues.
It's been said on these posts that the truth is realized only when everything crashes hard. But I don't think I know of any country where this has happened.
Can anyone tell me a country where they've gone from kicked-back, to realizing the truth about the necessity of work, to becoming a hard working culture?
After reading Nostrils posts (rants is more apt these days) I think it is fitting that the word “frustration” is in the article's title.
Mar 30th, 2013 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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