Nicolas Sarkozy
/ CBS News(CBS/AP) Nicolas Sarkozy, defeated Sunday in France's presidential runoff by Socialist challenger Francois Hollande, joins a series of European leaders booted from office because of public anger over government spending cuts and economic crisis. Almost every crisis-hit European country that has held an election since disaster struck in 2009 has thrown out its leader.
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- When people can vote themselves a living instead of working for a living it will not take long for the country to fall.
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- Wait till the imaginary wealth starts to disappear on wall street. Wall Street was counting on riding the backs of those European countries.
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- LOL! Looks like people everywhere have had enough of austerity so the wealthy can ride their backs. I was reading an article yesterday that talked about an elderly person in Greece who lived in a basement paying the same taxes as someone living in a penthouse there. Looks like the results are in on tax breaks for the wealthy everywhere.
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