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To: calgal who wrote (55185)	9/3/2012 3:05:23 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

I’m a bad person. I know it’s not nice to take joy in the misery of others, but I can’t help but smile when I see a story about bad news in France. In my defense, this is not because of hostility to French people, who have always been friendly to me. Instead, France has become the global symbol of statism (particularly since Sweden has been moving in the right direction). The French, for instance, are increasingly infamous for class-warfare tax policy and onerous levels of intervention. And since it’s my job to promote liberty, I’ll confess that it’s easier for me to convince non-French policy makers that free markets and small government are the right approach when there’s more evidence that statism is failing in France. So why am I smiling? Well, France wasn’t doing so well under the de facto socialist Nicolas Sarkozy, and it seems that things are looking even worse now that the de jure socialist Francois Hollande is in charge.

To: calgal who wrote (55185)	9/3/2012 9:28:42 PM
From: greatplains_guy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Democrats are always for increasing the minimum wage when Republicans are in office. They know it causes a recession. The issue never comes up when Democrats are in office.