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  1. I strongly suspect that the French are unhappy with the managers and implementation of French socialism, rather than with socialism itself. That would of course apply to other Europeans as well.

    Moochers and other free loaders do not abandon their core ideology, they merely search for a scapegoat and ultimately, anyone will do, as long as the finger of responsibility does not point to themselves.

    At base, socialism is founded upon placing the blame upon ‘the other guy’…

  2. City farms have very strict discipline regimens for sheep and livestock that try to breach the boundaries, Neo. Remember the shocking choke collar/fence system?

  3. cue the voice from poltergeist: “Their here….”

    Landlords in the Long Island community of Westbury will be targeted by a newly created police “Housing Enforcement Unit” that will “modify search warrant law to eliminate prior notice, aggressively use warrants and housing sweeps on a regular basis.”
    Residents are being encouraged to report their neighbors to authorities if they suspect they are housing tenants who have not been registered with the government.
    http://longisland.news12.com/news/village-of-westbury-creating-housing-enforcement-unit-to-crack-down-on-illegal-housing-1.7537969

  4. “Liberte, egalite, facsimile – When was the last time you enjoyed, say, a contemporary French film? How many must-see French actors are there? Their most famous actor has now taken out Russian citizenship (and moved to Belgium). Name a living French painter worth the wall space. Name a great French musician. A novelist, apart from Michel Houellebecq–and the French hate him. Their vaunted cuisine has become a moribund tourist performance.
    A. Gill at vanityfair.com”

  5. Remember, too, that left and right in Europe are not the same as in the US.

    Not yet, but we’re rapidly getting there. As I’ve said repeatedly, the American Republican Party is becoming like the “conservative” parties of Europe. They never seriously question the welfare state; they merely argue that they can administer it better than the “left” parties. They have no intention of reducing the size and scope of government. All they want is a seat at the table of power.

  6. The Left is the same everywhere in the world, given their alliance status.

    What’s different is that “liberal” still means free market like in Anglo countries. In the US, that stopped being the case awhile back.

  7. The effect of this staleness (boredom) is the same everywhere; it is seen in all the drug taking and drinking and every form of the tendency to increase the dose. Men seek stranger sins or more startling obscenities as stimulants to their jaded sense….They try to stab their nerves to life… They are walking in their sleep and trying to wake themselves up with nightmares. (The Everlasting Man, p. 291)

  8. “Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.” ― Frédéric Bastiat

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