Read the comments!-----France’s government collapses in spectacular fashion after Macron’s hand-picked leader tried to rein in public debt - New York Post - Ronny Reyes

Premier François Bayrou was ousted overwhelmingly in a 364-194 vote against him, losing an apparent gamble that lawmakers would back his push for France to slash public spending to repay its debts
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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 9/9/2025 6:39:48 AM (No. 2001185)

I don't like to see failure on this scale, however.... Macron has been an incompetent embarrassment for a long time and the French government opened their gates to the barbarians along with the other elite Euros. Rotsa ruck people.

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Reply 2 - Posted by: privateer 9/9/2025 6:49:33 AM (No. 2001191)

The SS Frogistan has been listing for years. Now it appears to begin going down at the head; comme la Titanique. The Fifth Republic seems destined to be a new caliphate...thanks to that Nantes Boy Macaroni.

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Reply 3 - Posted by: Lala 9/9/2025 7:11:51 AM (No. 2001200)

This is what happens when someone tries to cut off the freebies. Such collapse will happen everywhere, even here eventually. Let’s not kid ourselves that we’re invulnerable. You can’t continue to rack up the national debt forever. But no one wants to be the bad guy and go down in flames like this latest PM.

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Reply 4 - Posted by: skacmar 9/9/2025 7:34:27 AM (No. 2001208)

A new politician wants to actually address deficits and overspending. The other politicians who have been in office forever freak out because they are afraid of accountability and cutting off some government freebies. Instead of addressing the financial issues, they get rid of they discredit and get rid of the new guy. Sound a lot like what Democrats are trying to do with Trump. Glad the US doesn't have a parliamentary system or things would never change here.

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Reply 5 - Posted by: Citoyen 9/9/2025 8:54:29 AM (No. 2001246)

FTA: "At the end of the first quarter of 2025, France’s public debt stood at $3.93 trillion, or about 114% of gross domestic product. (The US debt to GDP ratio is about 119%.)" France is broke but the United States is even broker. Credit is due to M. Bayrou and even a bit to Macron for attempting, very tardily, to deal with their country's crushing debt. Bayrou was ousted for proposing a spending freeze, something our feckless Republicans refuse to even consider. Some in the Trump Administration are even proposing that the money raised from the tariffs be given to tax payers rather than used to pay down, just slightly, our own obscene debt. Insanity reigns on both sides of the Atlantic...