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To: FenwickBabbitt
Le Pen wants to:

1. Lower retirement age
2. Increase public aid to elderly
3. Cut price of gas and electricity by 5% (Subsidy?)
4. Maintain 35-hour work week.
5. Increase welfare payments

6. Raise taxes on trade
7. Preserve state-owned industries
8. Oppose American-led foreign policy
9. Open healthcare centers in small towns
10. Launch a university for the "arts and crafts"
Le Pen sure has a lot of ideas on how to tax and spend. But you keep on thinking she's a right winger.
103 posted on 04/24/2017 4:09:26 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: SSS Two

“But you keep on thinking she’s a right winger.”

As I wrote before, I agree that she’s not conservative on most issues (although I don’t see being in favor of arts and crafts as inherently left-wing and her position on trade is not all that different from Trump’s). However, she is conservative on the most pressing issues for the survival of France: national sovereignty, independence, and self-determination for the French people combined with a desire to stop mass immigration from groups with radically different values and a tendency towards religious violence and oppression.

Her desire to “conserve” the French nation and culture is very conservative. On these issues among some others, Macron is hard left. Economic concerns are not always the most important ones. Even if the government is scaled back a bit, that won’t really matter if nuclear France is majority Muslim in 25 years (especially considering the growing radicalization taking place now). One only has to look at Algeria to know that.


132 posted on 04/25/2017 9:17:22 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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