So it has come to pass that the French are smarter than Americans...
We are rocketing into the ground.
And i’m just shocked that all those Muslims in France are on welfare . well not really
Easy. The French are only smarter than American Democrats. This is an intraparty post-election foodfight in France, Vell is just the guy the Socialists hope can tamp down Martine LePen’s growing support.
The canary in the coalmine for the French Left is the region north of Paris along the Belgian border. When the Socialists and Communists don’t carry that area, they move off their traditional “National Solidarity” bs. At least temporarily.
Immigration and crime will be dealt with, because there is now a national consensus on those issues. Economic reform? Don’t hold your breath. The hope is by limiting immigration there will be significant enough cost containment to save the public welfare system. The government sector in France sucks up 60% of GDP. You can throw every person who’s immigrated to France for the past three generations out of the country and you still won’t save enough money to make a dent. France’s problem is structural— and there is no way the French are going to suck it up and endure hardship long enough to develop the skills necessary to compete with the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Germans or Americans on anything in the global economy. Hence their sale of submarines to Russia (despite Crimea and relate concerns in the Black Sea) and attempts to dislodge the US as the primary supplier of air defense weapons to Saudi Arabia.
Just be ready for the follow-on effects of French retrenchment on immigration. The Middle East and North Africa is overpopulated in relation to those countries’ productive economic capacity. They’ve used immigration to France and the UK as their overpopulation relief valve. France is threatening to shut down the pipeline and the UK isn’t far behind... now who would that leave? Think Hispanic immigration is contentious? Wait until Keith Ellison starts making noise about immigration for his Muslim brothers and sisters from Africa...