Mac Slavo
February 5th, 2013
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Parents and educators are outraged over an electronic curriculum system being used in Texas public schools after a recent classroom assignment called for students to design a flag for a new socialist/commuist nation.
A lesson plan for 6th graders reads as follows:
Notice socialist/communist nations use symbolism on their flags representing various aspects of their economic system. Imagine a new socialist nation is creating a flag and you have been put [...]
 Thanks to passage of Proposition 30 last month, high-income Californians would pay the nation’s highest marginal income tax rates – nearly 52 percent — if President Barack Obama and Congress fail to make a deal to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff,” according to a new study.
Without a fiscal cliff deal to the contrary, the Bush era tax cuts on high-income taxpayers would expire next year and rates would return to their previous [...]
PARIS — If France’s new Socialist government has its way, mothers and fathers will cease to exist — in legal papers, that is.
Legislation that would legalize same-sex marriage and give homosexual couples the right to adopt children also would replace the terms “mother” and “father” with “parent 1” and “parent 2” in all legal documents, including birth certificates.
The proposal has outraged France’s religious establishment and triggered a wave of criticism from many who say [...]
Having been in power for less than two months Francois Hollande is facing the first major test of his pro-growth election (related: 10 Game-Changing Elections) commitments after a warning from the national audit office that France’s economy is in the “danger zone” and risks falling into a “debt spiral.”
Late on Monday the national audit office said the French budget deficit will overshoot by 6-10 billion euros ($7.56-12.6 billion) this year and by 33 [...]
France’s new socialist government cut the country’s retirement age in the face of the eurozone’s deepening crisis, citing “social justice” to explain a move that goes against austerity efforts across the region.
Workers who entered employment aged 18 will be able to retire at 60 rather than 62, under the decree agreed at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
The decision follows pre-election promises from the new president Francois Hollande to reverse the [...]
From FT:
France’s new socialist government has launched a crackdown on excessive corporate pay by promising to slash the wages of chief executives at companies in which it owns a controlling stake, including EDF, the nuclear power group.
In a departure from the more boardroom-friendly approach of the previous right-of-centre administration, newly elected president François Hollande wants to cap the salary of company leaders at 20 times that of their lowest-paid worker.
According to [...]
Demands: French President Francois Hollande is insisting on a tax on financial transactions which David Cameron is bitterly opposed to
The euro crashed to a 22-month low yesterday as the European economy took another dramatic turn for the worse.
Figures showed the biggest slump in private sector business across Europe this month for nearly three years.
The dire news sent the euro tumbling against the dollar to $1.25 – its lowest level since [...]
Michael Mainville
AFP
French leader Francois Hollande’s new Socialist government got down to work on Thursday with the first order of business a symbolic 30 percent pay cut for the president and ministers.
Following the cabinet’s inaugural meeting, spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said the salary reduction was to “set an example” as the government looks to tackle France’s troubled public finances.
The move was also aimed at drawing a distinction betweenHollande and former president Nicolas Sarkozy, whose gross [...]
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, [...]
This recovery is going to lead to a real depression where countries collapse. Soon, politicians will regret this “recovery” and will wish they had let the banks fail. They will realize that free-market capitalism is much more efficient than socialism. Or maybe they won’t .. ever.
Socialism is great until you run out of other peoples money- The Iron Lady
Not sure we will see another Depression the conditions of countries [...]
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This is going to be the most expensive “recovery” ever.
This recovery is going to lead to a real depression where countries collapse. Soon, politicians will regret this “recovery” and will wish they had let the banks fail. They will realize that free-market capitalism is much more efficient than socialism. Or maybe they won’t .. ever.
Socialism is great until you run out of other peoples money- The Iron Lady
Not sure we will see another Depression the conditions of countries [...]