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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 4. December | 108 comments (108 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

What is it with that pragmatic label slapped on Sarkozy all over the place anyway?

Is he repealing the "tax cuts for the rich" imposed last year in the name of the sacrosanct trickle down economics?
Is he backtracking on the work time increase and overtime reforms pushed down the employee's throat, reforms the government's own statisticians have shown to have actually increased unemployment figures?
Has he decided to support our troops in Afghanistan and send them home?

That would be pragmatism I can believe in (move over citizens, no waffles here).

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 03:32:04 PM EST
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Re: Oh yuck (none / 0)

Indeed. And I believe that there is a typo in that sentence: "someone is in charge whom they trust more than anyone else".

Surely it should be less than anyone else.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 04:09:16 PM EST
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