FILLON TELLS OBAMA : "NO, WE WON'T !"

This is the last straw...
Now Mister O. has decided to tell the French people how to act in order to solve the economic crisis !


Although I recognize our French president is no economic expert, I think we, French people, do not have to let a newly elected American president tell us what to do, all the more as he has not shown any particular talent in handling his own economy so far.

Obama has just published an essay to prepare his coming to Europe for the G20 Summit next week : he  presses global leaders to take "bold, comprehensive and coordinated" steps against the debilitating recession.
http://europumas.over-blog.com/pages/OBAMA_SADRESSE_AUX_EUROPEENS-1224605.html


Fortunately, the French Prime Minister, who is currently in Washington with the Finance Minister, Christine Lagarde, has had the courage to tell him "No", and to reject his request categorically.



François Fillon with Joe in Washington yesterday.

According to him,  G-20 countries need to take "sustained and robust" fiscal stimulus measures until demand has been restored.

"If the London summit contributes to the initiation of immediate joint measures, we will be able to smooth the path to a secure recovery and prevent future crises."

France's prime minister was in Washington on Monday exploring responses to the global economic crisis with U.S. officials and lawmakers.

Francois Fillon was meeting with chief White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers and Vice President Joe Biden. He also planned to meet with lawmakers involved in writing U.S. financial legislation.

France and the United States have diverged on their responses to the crisis. France and other European countries have resisted the suggested U.S. remedy of deficit spending as the answer. Europe wants international bodies created to regulate hedge funds and other high-risk financial institutions.

France has already committed significant resources to stimulate its economy and should avoid creating a bubble of public debt, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Monday during a visit to Washington.

Fillon was speaking at a time when European governments have been resisting calls for additional stimulus measures to match the scale of U.S. commitments.

"Compared with the needs and means of the country, the French plan is very large. I am attentive to public finances. We should not create a bubble of public debt," Fillon said in a speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Henri Guaino, Nicolas Sarkozy's closest adviser, had already warned the US that the French executive will not take decisions under pressure, and will only revise the stimulus plan if the economic situation worsens.


How courageous !
I am so proud of the reaction of the French government (whereas I generally disagree with the policies led by the Sarkozy / Fillon government). For the first time, I would like to congratulate the French Prime Minister !

Congratulations, Monsieur Fillon, for standing firm and for your refusal to obey a man who is both inexperienced and incompetent, and who thought he could tell Europe what to do.

Obama has forgotten something important : times have changed. The European heads of government do not admire "the phenomenon Obama" as they used to do last summer.
Today, neither Sarkozy, nor Gordon Brown, nor Angela Merkel intend to be told what to do by the American Messiah.



Here, in Europe, Obamania is much less strong than before...

And whatever his people thinks, whether or not Americans continue to believe in him and in his blah-blah-blah read on a teleprompter (words, words, words he does not even understand as he pronounces them), we don't care.

He may increase his own country's deficit if he likes...
But we won't let him oblige us to increase ours !

We, French and European people, do not have to obey this con man, this fraud... because... we simply did not vote for him !