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NY Times Admits: New French Socialist Prez‘s Policies are a ’Better Fit’ for the U.S. Because…

They’re words that have to be read to be believed.

In a news article in the New York Times, the paper suggests that newly-elected Socialist President Francois Hollande and his economic polices are likely a “better fit” for the U.S. economic positions (i.e. the new president’s policies are more palatable to the Obama administration than outgoing President Sarkozy). It then goes on to lay out how the Socialist and Barack Obama are ideologically linked.

“With the victory of the Socialist candidate, François Hollande, in the French presidential election,” the article begins, “the White House has lost one of its closest allies on the Continent, but perhaps gained one with economic policy beliefs more closely aligned with its own.”

Then the article goes on to lay out its case: Hollande is against austerity, Obama is against austerity; Hollande believes in government spending its way out of recession, Obama believes in government spending its way out of recession.

These quotes in the Times article are clear:

  • “…[T]he White House objects to [austerity] on the grounds that cutting budgets too soon will lead to sluggish growth and high unemployment across Europe without satisfying the demands of skittish bond investors. Mr. Hollande … ran on a promise of rebalancing Europe away from austerity and toward growth, and his narrow victory is seen in Washington as a public rejection of governments imposing strict cuts on battered economies.”
  • “[Hollande] also supports measures to support growth by, for instance, bolstering infrastructure spending.” The Obama administration had pushed for such pro-growth policy changes even as Mr. Sarkozy joined Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in calling for deep spending cuts.”
  • “Mr. Hollande seems ‘naturally more palatable to the administration,’ said Justin Vaïsse, the director of research for the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution. The administration seems to reason that “Europe probably has a better chance of avoiding a breakup or another renewed sovereign debt crisis by focusing on growth, rather than just sticking to austerity,” he said.”
  • “Observers said that though Mr. Hollande was likely to hew closer to the Obama administration on economic issues … .”

Of course the Times doesn’t really explain what Socialism is (and its brutal history) or that Hollande is floating a 75 percent tax rate on the country’s top earners.

In sum: France just elected a Socialist, and his economic policies should be gladly accepted by the Obama administration because Obama and the Socialist are aligned on their ideology.

Maybe that doesn’t surprise you — but does it concern you?

This story has been updated with additional information.

Comments (41)

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  • Tax Revolt
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:02am

    How can anyone have any doubts as to obamas socialistic leanings? This article cements it for myself and others I am sure. Folks we are at war. Maybe not the type fought with guns and knives, but a war non the less. We are at war for the future of our country, the little freedoms we have left and our families. Obama, progressives, communists, and Fox-Piven have succeeded where Japan, Hitler, Musilini, Moa, and Stalin have failed. After WWII all of these people knew they would never be able to defeat America in a gun fought battle. They have managed to use our freedoms, to divide us, enslave us, and create an America loathing youth capable of and willing to use violence against their fellow Americans.

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    • starman70
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:38pm

      Odummer is a Communist and the new French prez. is too!!! Well birds of a feather flock together. Hey, maybe we can get Obama to move to France, he would fit right in.

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  • lynnissmart
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:18am

    NYTimes should move to France….and stay there!!!!!

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:02pm

      or we should just make NY state its own country and call it a day. I am so tired of the trash that comes out of NY

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  • Mark0331
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:15am

    Under socialism, incentives play a minimal role or are ignored totally. A centrally planned economy without market prices or profits, where property is owned by the state, is a system without an effective incentive mechanism to direct economic activity. By failing to emphasize incentives, socialism is a theory inconsistent with human nature and is therefore doomed to fail. Socialism is based on the theory that INCENTIVES DON’T MATTER! Without competition, centrally planned economies do not have an effective incentive structure to coordinate economic activity. Without incentives the results are a spiraling cycle of poverty and misery. Instead of continually re-allocating resources towards greater efficiency, socialism falls into a vortex of inefficiency and failure.

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    • SoNick
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:27pm

      enough already! France does not have “a centrally planned economy”. It’s a free market society. Hollande’s socialists mereley believe in Keynesianism. Stop freaking out and bringing up images of the Soviet Union.

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  • zoro51
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:39am

    time to END the times.. we are americans NOT french SOCIALSITS.. even though OBAMA THRIVES that we could ber IMPEACH THAT SOCIALIST BASTARD NOW.. and CLOSE THE TIMES.. a BIAST SOCIALIST PROPAGANDA MACHINE

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:11am

    If the shoe fits

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    • poorrichard09
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:26am

      Thanks France, but we already have our own marxist socialist president.

      Did you notice how excited 0bozo is about the new French prez?

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:08am

    Please tell me why the people who said Obammy was a socialist were labeled radicals when the real radical is Obammy.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:51am

    Once again the NYTimes shows its true colors; Obama is probably crowing louder than a brooding hen over the victory of his socialist extremist brethren in Europe.

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  • raderby
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:47am

    and the NYT “would” be a better fit for a bird cage bottom, but not, since it costs too much.

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  • Beckofile
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:38am

    They use the word growth like Obama uses investment here. How can you grow anything but the size of government with more gov. Spending? They have to take a dollar from someone in order to spend it elsewhere. Your children get to pay for this generation jobs.

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  • EP46
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:25am

    In 2011 the Former Marxist guerrilla fighter Dilma Rousseff was elected President of Brazil. Obama promised her that the U.S. would buy Brazil’s oil….(Brazilian Oil -Soros)…then he sent word to Communist Putin that soon he would be more flexible with America’s missile defense system….he is meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood in the White House…he is negotiating with the Taliban in Afghanistan. .what is he promising to Socialist President Hollande ?

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  • USPATRIOT101
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:18am

    This guy‘s political promises sound identical to barry’s. Tax the rich and promise handouts.

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:06am

    This should come as no big surprise. I believe that it was Time magazine who shortly after 0bama was elected produced a cover that said “We are all Socialists now.”

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  • SageInWaiting
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:57am

    EVERYONE except president is judged by the friends he keeps.

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    • SoNick
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:25pm

      yeah, except Obama and Hollande haven’t met yet. So I guess calling them friends is a bit of a stretch

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:54am

    P.S….But what they failed to tell the kids is that with Socialism,everybody is a loser EXCEPT the Political Class…

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:52am

    What should we expect??? Our public school system has been indoctrinating our kids into the belief that Socialism is the only fair system…Kinda like T-Ball where there are no losers…

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:51am

    Drugs. Drugs. Drugs. Trying to rule by drugging us into submission. No drugs, alcohol, or smoking. Why? Because they make you feel empty and terrible. Lonely.

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  • jnobfan
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:51am

    The people of france and greece have spoken. Our only hope is that the collapse of their countries and the EURO happen before our election. A second term Obama and still too few Tea Party congressmen and Senators would do permenant damage to the last free market country on earth.

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  • EP46
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:49am

    Hey, we are in good shape….Hollande is taxing the ‘rich’ at 75%……obama can not do that until after the election when he has more ‘flexibility’.

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  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:43am

    WARNING WARNING WARNING
    Cloward and Piven Strategy being played out in the United States.

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:41am

    Beck is dying his way back to the top. This isn’t hell. Not with me here. This is heaven.

    All those pretty people on earth who are now immortal and destined for heaven.

    The psychiatrist who sent me here is Dr. Charlotte Ladd.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:36am

      Didn’t Dr. Ladd tell you to take your meds?

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  • cowboy357
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:40am

    If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck and swims like a duck………

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  • seeker9
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:37am

    If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck, even if it is called something else.

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  • Leadthemtothelight
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:35am

    It’s really early in the day to have high blood pressure already. However…..What the %^&*????
    How did we get here? Where is the public out cry? How have people forgotten what socialism really is? Why don’t people remember the intentional starvation of millions of people in China and Russia under socialism? I refuse to believe that this is who we are in the US. I may find myself in a re education camp some day but I will never swallow socialism and embrace it here.

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  • timel0rd
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:32am

    Okay, okay, so… Hollande is a Socialist, true. Obama and Hollande have closely aligned ‘economic policy beliefs’, true (even the NYTimes says so). But, Obama is not a Socialist.
    Hollande = Socialist, Obama = Hollande, Obama != Socialist. Yep, perfect logical sense to a liberal. *facepalm*

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:32am

    Big surprise, our socialist likes their socialist.

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    • bpodlesnik
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:50am

      That could be a bumper sticker, with a picture of Obama on one side and Holland on the other lol

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:04am

      They are probably already Facebook friends.

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:57am

      Not PROBABLE. for SURE they are.

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