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Old 04-02-2007, 23:51   #69
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Originally Posted by forre View Post
freddie, I have a perfect understanding that French candidates are trying to promise what they can't fulfill. Anything for a victory. It's a competition after all. Giving homeless free housing is easy. Put the taxes up and here you have your free housing. The question is - what will say the rest of population? Such policy will morally disable the society. Anything for a beautiful word, isn't it?

French presidential campaign is no less pathetic and hilarious than any other's democratic country on this planet. Generally speaking, of course.
Oh course. That's why I said it was utopia. Taking all homeless of the streets and offering them normal health care would require enormous tax-paying power. To promise it is populism at it's finest, but then again... it IS something France (and EU as a whole) should be striving for (the goal is unreachable but we can get within reasonable margin of it eventually).
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