Likewise  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249025/Gerard-Depardieu-vows-French-passport-puts-40m-Parisian-mansion-market-protest-huge-tax-hikes.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490  triffid




Mr Depardieu said he has paid 85 per cent of his income to the Government this year, and estimated that he had paid more than £130 million in total since he started work on leaving school aged 14.

New financial measures: French President Francois Hollande has imposed a top rate of income tax of 75 per cent Mr Ayrault had earlier branded Mr Depardieu 'pathetic' and 'unpatriotic', but the actor wrote in an open letter in the Journal de Dimanche: 'Who are you to judge me like this, Mr Ayrault? I ask you, who are you?

'Despite my excesses, my appetite and my love of life, I am a free man.

'I am not asking to be approved of, but I could at least be respected. All of those who have left France have not been insulted as I have been.

'At no time have I failed in my duties. The historic films in which I took part bear witness to my love of France and its history.'

The actor is not the first wealthy French resident to signal their intention to leave since Mr Hollande came to power back in May.

Wilby, those fish look good!

Quote from: triffid on December 18, 2012, 03:59:14 PM
Lee,...
...if people felt that at this point that something really bad was going to occur that people would be running amuck,robbing banks,killing each other,streaking through the streets without any clothes on.Oh wait they are already doing that ?Aren't they?triffid

As of now, San Francisco is still a clothing-optional city.   Nothing on the local books or at the CA State level to make it illegal.   Gay men in The Castro(suburban neighborhood) come out when it's warm at the main streets(Market @ Castro & 17th St.) of The Castro, now.
Just to have the tourists gawk at them.   I don't LOL, but it's still amusing, sometimes.        

--Lee


You have a point, though.

Well we are still here it seems.I took today off from everything but here.Yesterday I went to the thrift store and bought 11 more books at 50 cents each.Some on economics,managment ,and selling.No matter how big the paperback its still 50 cents.textbooks are a $1.50.So far in the last three months I 've picked up about 50 books I guess. Two to three are a game changer for me so far.One book yesterday was economic history of the USA(and europe since 1648.

"The western Heritage ,Brief Edition,Volume 2 since 1648 cc 1996." Says that Europe after WW1 never shared in the roaring twenties that the united states had.They were still trying to recover their economies when the great depression hit(1930's).It says before WW2 Americans kept to themselves but WW2 taught the USA that events beyond our borders affect our security here at home.Hence we are now spread throughout the world.The book talks a great deal about Hitlers rise to power.And his actions before and during the war.WW2 was the most brutal war ever fought in the history of mankind.I hope we never have another one like that one.


The gas used in the death camps was diesel exhaust fumes.After 32 minutes of inhaling them everyone is dead.Never mind using hydrogen cyanide which is quick and deadly maybe 3 minutes!

Page 662 of the book mentioned above says that the German financial disaster of 1923 and its spector of uncontrolled inflation explain why most governments refused to run budget deficits when the great depression hit.