Posted on 11/06/2005 1:21:11 PM PST by JustaCowgirl
This is why Chirac is so fondly referred to as,
The First Knucklehead of Europe.
Part of the problem--and I suspect it's only part--is that with so much regulation, it's very hard to start your own business. It's also very difficult to find work, because govt. regulations make it so hard to fire anyone. In Germany, it's actually illegal to set yourself as a shoe shine guy, because it's considered "undignified" work!
"Bleak."
If we assume that the French will surrender, I wonder how they will do it?
Really, I am unable to imagine what will happen next.
"Their Socialist and Communist parties sound and act just like the Democrats here"
That's part of their Internationale pedigree. The dogs.
" The French have the rifles, I do not know if they have the will."
They don't.
However, I myself would not advocate your tactics either. Police need to have other sorts of weapons and strategies to use.
They are not.
Under both circumstances cheap labor is/was being imported at a rate that can't/couldn't accommodated cultural assimilation. In both cases little attempt was/is being made to mainstream the immigrants beyond a primary "public" education. In both cases immigrants were/are being forced into cultural ghettos. In both cases these cultural ghettos are producing institutionalized public misbehavior and a mistrust of public authority.
There are numerous examples of these parallels. Hopefully the US will learn from France's experiences and adjust our public policies before we suffer the same fate.
Pellet guns in action is what I take from it.
Which is it?
Do you believe that Mexican immigrants will be rioting in the streets en masse setting cars afire any time soon (having lived in squalor based on their race and culture for years)? Or not?
Is the United States the same as France in any way, shape, or form? Or not?
The Muslim community is actually in Dearborn and I don't believe you'll ever see the Arab/Muslim community there burn anything. They actually enjoy a pretty high standard of living there and Dearborn is economically sound middle class city. Now as far as their allegiance to the US vs a Muslim state, no guarantees.
Hopefully all of the burnt vehicles were insured by the Gecko and Progressive Insurance.
...yet...
That's what they say when the Tour De France heads through such beautiful towns and villages every year.
These boneheads are so stupid. The one guy who actually stood up to the Muslims (in speech only, you can't get any more than that so don't ask) they thoroughly chastised him and even he has now been neutered.
If you don't have a fireplace this winter, just turn on the news. It'll serve as one all winter.
Does Geico sell car insurance in France?
Is the United States the same as France in any way, shape, or form? Or not?
"Wait a minute. France has ghetto's? "
It's a sweet moment, all right. After all the crap they've given us for so many years.
"Sending in the army might not be something the Chirac govt. believes it can do"
Very good. Maybe they should send in their poets?
Here is the caption:
In German-occupied France, a Frenchman weeps as spectators watch the historic flags of French regiments leave to cross the Mediterranean, Feb. 19, 1941, in Marseilles.
"and I suspect it's only part--is that with so much regulation,"
Actually, regulations are a very big part of the problem. The worst laws are the ones that make it difficult to lay workers off. That guarantees that nobody wants to hire anybody.
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