French socialist acknowledges his win will kill jobs

[dogtowner]

I think the difference Between the USA and Australia and most of Europe is not just snakes. We have only two poisonous snakes here and death by snake bite is rare. The difference is that the USA always had conservative governments. Obama is conservative by our standards. We have had many Labor governments. We are further to the left in mot things even religion. WE have spent to avoid the GFC. This has kept unemployment low and wages low.

This is in constrast to the American situation reported in today's New York Times. There"Still the plaintive pleas for work keep coming online. That is because carpenters, bricklayers, roofers, painters, electricians, plumbers and carpet installers have largely been left out of the economic recovery. Builders are not hiring, homeowners are deferring renovations and governments are postponing highway and bridge projects. Economists are
forecasting that the Labor Department will announce on Friday that the nation’s employers added about 165,000 net jobs last month — few of them in the construction industry."The Construction industry is booming here and tradesmen have the highest wages

Steve Irwin always made it seem like you were up to your ears in snakes thee. I guess you can't take everything you see on TV for gospel. That was kind of a joke.

Your economy is based on natural resources (the hated mining, hated by the aboriginals at least) and so is less affected than some but it seems your prospects are not all that rosy.

As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday:

THE Reserve Bank has dramatically downgraded its assessment of the Australian economy ahead of the budget, slashing its forecasts for growth and inflation and opening the door to further interest rate cuts.

The bank's latest quarterly review, released yesterday, predicts "subdued" jobs growth, "weak" building activity, "soft" government spending, weak business investment away from the mining sector and inflation near the bottom of its target band.

Offsetting all of these, and allowing the bank to match the expected Treasury forecast of 3.25 per cent economic growth to be unveiled on budget night, is a strong pick up in export earnings, by itself responsible for 1 percentage point of the bank's 3 to 3.5 per cent economic growth forecast.

The forecast will enable the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, to claim the economic growth is returning to trend, but the growth will be unbalanced, with the bank expecting only "modest" employment growth for the year ahead.

The outlook is a turnaround from last May when the bank forecast "solid" employment growth and the budget forecast 500,000 new jobs in two years.

 

[Aus22]

Steve Irwin always made it seem like you were up to your ears in snakes thee. I guess you can't take everything you see on TV for gospel. That was kind of a joke.

Your economy is based on natural resources (the hated mining, hated by the aboriginals at least) and so is less affected than some but it seems your prospects are not all that rosy.

As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday:

Australia Unemployment is 5%. Even if it did not improve it is well below the USA or European rate. The Mining boom and exports to China do help . However I doubt that many other countries ares looking at a 3.5% growth or increase jobs

 

[steveox]

Does this mean Bill OReily will put boycotts back in france again. I want fast food resteraunts to drop the name French off its fries,,Just call em fries.. If i see the word french on it I WILL NOT BUY IT! I will E Mail Bill OReily ask him will this mean you will start boycotts against france again means they elected a socialist president? Cause you know damn well they gonna veto America against going to war again if we have to invade another arabic country.

 

[Pandora]

Does this mean Bill OReily will put boycotts back in france again. I want fast food resteraunts to drop the name French off its fries,,Just call em fries.. If i see the word french on it I WILL NOT BUY IT! I will E Mail Bill OReily ask him will this mean you will start boycotts against france again means they elected a socialist president? Cause you know damn well they gonna veto America against going to war again if we have to invade another arabic country.

Well...

Give the guy a chance to bash America first. Bill was mad after Jacques Chirac constantly bashed our Country and our President... So we should wait till the new socialist starts bashing us before we get nasty back. By Thursday I am sure we will get our chance



And I think it went to Freedom fries

 

[steveox]

Ok,,, Well see what he does,, But in England they dont call em fries..Thdey call them chips or wedges. So i think we should just say fries. Not freedom fries that sounds corny.

 

[Cruella]

Isn't French fried just a cooking term for submersing food in hot fat?

 

[steveox]

What about French Toast? Is that hot fat?

 

[dogtowner]

What about French Toast? Is that hot fat?

no milk and eggs soaked ito bread with a little vanilla, maybe cinnamon pan fried in some butter.

 

[Aus22]

Ok,,, Well see what he does,, But in England they dont call em fries..Thdey call them chips or wedges. So i think we should just say fries. Not freedom fries that sounds corny.

WEll The Socialist have won in France. I do not think you will see much change. We have had Labor or Socialist government for years. They might spend more than their conservative opponents but there is not much difference. Our labor government is now cutting social security to have a surplus budget. They still might lose the next election as most governments are blamed for any problems particularly economic. I think international politics is volatile and most governments in power particularly in Europe will be kick out.
Look at the position in Greece where neither the Socialist nor Conservatives will have enough seats to form a government. This will give power to fringe groups like nazies ant immigration parties. At least in France we know what the Socialist stand for.They are a legitimate party bot like the bogy some American think,

VIVA LA FRANCE

 

[dogtowner]

WEll The Socialist have won in France. I do not think you will see much change. We have had Labor or Socialist government for years. They might spend more than their conservative opponents but there is not much difference. Our labor government is now cutting social security to have a surplus budget. They still might lose the next election as most governments are blamed for any problems particularly economic. I think international politics is volatile and most governments in power particularly in Europe will be kick out.
Look at the position in Greece where neither the Socialist nor Conservatives will have enough seats to form a government. This will give power to fringe groups like nazies ant immigration parties. At least in France we know what the Socialist stand for.They are a legitimate party bot like the bogy some American think,

VIVA LA FRANCE

we'll see soon enoughas they and Germany have much work to do to try and keep the eurozone's economic problems somehow in check.

 

[Cruella]

What about French Toast? Is that hot fat?

Well it is dipped in an egg batter and fried in oil. I"ve never seen it submerged, but I guess you could. That's how doughnuts are made.

 

[steveox]

Maybe we should call em Canadian Toast. They speak french there too but Canada is our friend. They never go againist America no matter what our politics are.

Canadian Toast,,,So There!

 

[dogtowner]

Maybe we should call em Canadian Toast. They speak french there too but Canada is our friend. They never go againist America no matter what our politics are.

Canadian Toast,,,So There!

as usual, France has nothing to do with it. Italy, Germany, England. Take your pick.

The earliest known reference to French toast is in the Apicius, a collection of Latin recipes dating to the 4th or 5th century; the recipe mentions soaking in milk but not eggs (though the editor adds eggs) and gives it no special name, just Aliter Dulcia 'another sweet dish'.[1] There is a 14th-century German recipe under the name "Armeritter".[2] There are 15th-century English recipes for "pain perdu"[3] (French for "lost [or wasted] bread", suggesting that the dish is a use for bread which has gone stale).

 

[Pandora]

Maybe we should call em Canadian Toast. They speak french there too but Canada is our friend. They never go againist America no matter what our politics are.

Canadian Toast,,,So There!

Why? Canadians are socialists too. I am still really disgusted in Canada after my visit and they have not left my $#it list since. At least france got a decent president for a short time

 

[dogtowner]

Why? Canadians are socialists too. I am still really disgusted in Canada after my visit and they have not left my $#it list since. At least france got a decent president for a short time

went to Canada a few years back to watch a cricket match and you would not believe how hard it was to find beer (cricket requires a great deal of beer to be a spectator of). Toronto is dreary as hell. Countryside was nice enough.