Posted on 05/18/2006 11:52:13 AM PDT by George W. Bush
Sarkozy's reform bill will "stiffen the rules for immigrants in France, establish a sort of quota system and let authorities cherry-pick who gets in - such as doctors, computer whizzes or sports stars." (Independent Online, South Africa) "The bill, which also makes it difficult for immigrants already in France to have their families join them, is expected to go to the [French] Senate for final approval in June." (BBC)
Sarkozy himself is the son of a Hungarian immigrant. Promoting his reform proposal, Sarkozy had earlier said that "We can't keep welcoming to France everyone who wants to come and to whom we can offer neither housing nor employment." (Le Figaro)
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Get ready for a new round of burning cars on the streets of Paris.
Now Kerry can repeat his line... "Why can't we be more like France?"
There are stupid to go to France when they can just come here and get amnesty. They don't need to be doctors, computer whizzes or sports stars either. Lettuce pickers, busboys, and crack whores are all equally just as welcome.
What did another terminal at Charles de Gaulle collapse?
"It is a sad day when FRANCE has mores stones in protecting itself and its sovereignty than the USA."
That's true, but it's also true that most of France's immigrants are Moslems who sit around in ghettos collecting benefits with 50% of them unemployed when they aren't rioting. Most of ours are Hispanics who work hard.
I like to think we'd be responding more forcefully if we had Moslems instead of Mexicans.
"Getting into France just got harder."
Oh, darn. Just when I got a hankerin' to go to France! ;-)
Well free Dumb, see you are living up to your name.
Uh, Mr. President?
Ad hominem -- how intelligent.
Gee what does this make 15,000 posts screaming EXACTLY the same thing? Suppose the Whine All The Time choir could find a new rant? This one is getting OLD and tiresome.
I think their horrific losses in WW I should give the French a LITTLE bit of slack on the WW II issue.
The WW II campaign in France was over as soon as Rommel slipped his tanks unnoticed through the Ardennes and over the Meuse River. At that point, due to poor generalship and the too-short Maginot Line the Battle for France was over before it had even begun. There were no significant forces between Rommel and Paris.
as far as i recall it was for Bonaparte's soldiers.
"If they are cheese-eating surrender monkeys, what does that make us?"
Worse.
Say what you will, the French ruling class has a sense of national identity and care for its citizens. Most of our Ruling classes are set for globalism and wage depression. It juices up their investment returns in the short run.
That's the core concern. Feelings like "tolerance" and "compassion" for others - not other Americans but foreigners - are dealt to make the injury sound better and induce guilt-ridden submission. Left wing has been successfully coopted, running with delusional anti-Bush memes and pet hates distracting them from the core economic issues such as wages, costs and taxes. Some snarky people on the Right have not been assimilated into the collective, but Bush is trying his best. I don't think pointing out to the Left Media that one of their favorite countries, France, is working to help its people will do any good on immigration, opposite to us. They are too wrapped up into Bush Derangement Syndrome, recently enhanced by the tacit and scary realization they are hand in hand with Bush on this issue.
Hey, you owe me a new shirt -- due to your comment, the one I'm wearing is now soaked with iced tea!! Or maybe I should quit reading and drinking at the same time....
Don't hurt yourself trying to figure it out.
Are you speaking of France, or the US?
We need to pass a Constitutional Amendment with the EXACT WORDING of Mexico's Article 33.
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