French Lessons

The wall Street Journal ^ | 10/11/05 | Editorial Page

[ricks_place]

Rioting by Muslim youth in some 300 French cities and towns seems to be subsiding after two weeks and tougher law enforcement, which is certainly welcome news. The riots have shaken France, however, and the unrest was of such magnitude that it has become a moment of illumination, for French and Americans equally.

In particular, some longstanding conceits about the superiority of the French social model have gone up in flames. This model emphasizes "solidarity" through high taxes, cossetted labor markets, subsidies to industry and farming, a "Ministry for Social Cohesion," powerful public-sector unions, an elaborate welfare state, and, inevitably, comparisons to the alleged viciousness of the Anglo-Saxon "market" model. So by all means, let's do some comparing.

[ricks_place]

Rioting by Muslim youth ...seems to be subsiding...

French automobile manufacturing cannot keep up with demand.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"...Ministry for Social Cohesion..." ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

[ncountylee]

"...Ministry for Social Cohesion..." ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

If male, has to be an overweight, height challanged, light in the loafers minority.

[backhoe]

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

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Then, there is this little problem...

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

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Kindly note tagline:

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

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Then, there is this little problem...

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

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Kindly note tagline:

[kanawa]

Minister for Social Cohesion, Jacque LePage

[DustyMoment]

Rioting by Muslim youth in some 300 French cities and towns seems to be subsiding after two weeks

IMO, this could be the calm before the better organized storm. The one thing that the crappy reporting about this story has NEVER bothered to clarify is WHY the two "yoots" who were being pursued by the gendarmes and got electrocuted, were being pursued in the first place.

Inquiring minds and all that sort of thing.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Well, I set my browser to not load pics. So I'll just imagine a clown inside the frame. =]

[Beth528]

Muslims in particular are poison. A failed civilization, Islam sends its
unsuccessful, thus double failures, to Europe. They gravitate to slums
because they can do nothing else. Cohesive, angry, ineffectual, with no
loyalty to their new home, they neither flourish nor assimilate. Resentment
grows among them. And so the cities burn.

[purpleland]

France's Ministry for Social Collision...or is it U.N. Collusion?

It's apparent that France is a model for illustrating the progress of internal decay. To learn more than you ever wanted to know about France:

http://www.idbsu.edu/ibp.lib320s96/france.htm

Excerpt from Summary re: France

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The decisions of a new government are unpredictable and sometimes they can create a really bad climate for the economy.

Government control and Privatization :

The French government owns a big part of the most decisive companies ( EDF-electricity, SNCF and RATP-public transport, insurance, bank, big company in different fields). So, the president can control the economy (education, law, administrations). In the states' organizations, the problem is that the employees are really powerful if they join their forces against policies from the government that reduce their rights and their privileges. This happened last November, when the French government wanted to increase the number of year [sic] an employee have to subscribe to receive his retirement allowances. All the states' organizations went on strike everywhere and the country was paralyzed. The government wants to prevent this phenomenon in the future and to reduce the budget deficit that's why the president Chirac follows a policy of privatization. Indeed, lots of companies are going to be privatized in the next 5 years : GAN (insurance), Crédit Lyonnais and Banque Hervet (banking), Air France (airline), Aérospatiale and Snecma (aerospace), Usinor-Sacilor (steel), Pechiney (packaging), Seita (cigarettes).

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France's economy's predestined to failure (increasing unemployment and market losses) because its neoMarxist government owns and operates approx. 40% of its prime businesses.

[syriacus]

Muslims in particular are poison. A failed civilization, Islam sends its unsuccessful, thus double failures, to Europe.

Perhaps the folks who are failing in the slums of Paris are doubly angry that Saddam's former victims, the Iraqis, have more self-determination and a brighter future than they do.

The Iraq constitution was officially approved two days before the riots began.

[Beth528]

Perhaps the folks who are failing in the slums of Paris are doubly angry that Saddam's former victims, the Iraqis, have more self-determination and a brighter future than they do.


No i think the Koran is just embedded into their brain from childhood I don't think any of them want what the Iraqi's want..These are monsters that need to be dealt with the same way they go after Jews and Christians..Only then they will know we mean business..

[syriacus]

Bush seems to have felt that bringing democracy to Iraq would shake up the Muslim world.

Perhaps it has.

[cowtowney]

"French automobile manufacturing cannot keep up with demand."

Somehow, I zee a plot by Renault and Peugeot behind all of thees.... "Ve can't sell our autos, because they are merde, so ve should get ze muslims to burn zem"

[CommandoFrank]

Perhaps the folks who are failing in the slums of Paris are doubly angry that Saddam's former victims, the Iraqis, have more self-determination and a brighter future than they do.

Good point. I think you have something there...

[LikeLight]

A quiet night in France...

I'd hate to be there on a bad night.

(All above images sourced to last night or today)

[hershey]

'Long standing conceits about the superiority of the French social model have gone up in flames.' Calling John Kerry, are you listening? Well, he's probably busy nuancing.