Hagmann & Hagmann Report 10/5/2012

Caller from France

Must hear rant from caller from France pointing out the agenda that the ‘powers that be’ are bringing about with the downfall of Europe and are the same people with the same agenda that are causing the downfall of the United States. This caller is an articulate, very informed, passionate, older French woman that expresses her knowledge and concerns about the global events that are being manipulated by the powerful behind the scenes. This rant really got me fired up!

Start at the 139:15 minute mark. 

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France Sets 75% ‘Super Tax’ Rate

France taxes rich and business to slash deficit

(Reuters) - President Francois Hollande’s Socialist government unveiled sharp tax hikes on business and the rich on Friday in a 2013 budget aimed at showing France has the fiscal rigor to remain at the core of the euro zone.

The package will recoup 30 billion euros ($39 billion) for the public purse with a goal of narrowing the deficit to 3.0 percent of national output next year from 4.5 percent this year - France’s toughest single belt-tightening in 30 years.

But with record unemployment and a barrage of data pointing to economic stagnation, there are fears the deficit target will slip as France falls short of the modest 0.8 percent economic growth rate on which it is banking for next year.

The budget disappointed pro-reform lobbyists by merely freezing France’s high public spending rather than daring to attack ministerial budgets as Spain did this week as it battles to avoid the conditions of an international bailout.

“This is a fighting budget to get the country back on the rails,” Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said, adding that the 0.8 percent growth target was “realistic and ambitious”. “It is a budget which aims to bring back confidence and to break this spiral of debt that gets bigger and bigger.”