Obama administration advises new French president:

[Locutus]

For sake of world economy, don’t raise taxes and increase spending

“Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes…”

:lol:

President Obama’s spokesman warned the new socialist president-elect of France not to implement his campaign agenda of ending austerity measures, indicating that such a reversal could damage the world economy.
“A balanced approach . . . Both fiscal consolidation and efforts to boost the recovery is the right approach for Europe,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters today. “That’s an approach that he thinks ensures that the recovery continues while putting our fiscal house in order.”


Hollande campaigned on a platform of raising taxes on the wealthy and dramatically increasing domestic spending on stimulus and other programs. Sound familiar? So why would the Obama administration be worried that France might do more of the same thing we’re told will save America from a recession/depression and generations of insurmountable debt?
Ace at Ace of Spades a bead on the Obama administration’s primary concern in all this… which is of course the fate of the Obama administration:

If France crashes, it offers America a preview of where Obama’s policies will take us, so he… doesn’t want France to implement Obama’s policies. He doesn’t want that heads up. Not before the election.
In addition, of course, a second official recession would just about wrap things up for Romney.
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On a related note, Hollande’s election, as many predicted, did indeed spook the markets.




sauce: Michelle Malkin » Obama administration advises new French president: For sake of world economy, don’t raise taxes and increase spending


h/t weasel zippers

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[B00Mer]

Ironic.. Obama congratulated him on his plans to spend on stimulus plans.. just toss billions into the government and companies like Solyndra.

It's a socialist party that won.. figured the French might have learned something from Greece..

 

[Bar Sinister]

Ironic.. Obama congratulated him on his plans to spend on stimulus plans.. just toss billions into the government and companies like Solyndra.

It's a socialist party that won.. figured the French might have learned something from Greece..

Maybe they learned something more profound from the US. After all it was the unbridled capitalism of the USA that instigated the economic collapse of 2008.

Greece is small potatoes and the fuss being made about it is a complete over-reaction. Its GDP is less than that of Ontario and the EU could wipe out its debt without the slightest strain if it chose.