Sarkozy: France has "too many foreigners"
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy talks to workers at a factory in Pont-Eveque, central France, Jan. 19, 2012.
/ AP Photo/Michel Euler(CBS News) Trailing in opinion polls to his main opponent in the upcoming presidential election, France's current President Nicholas Sarkozy took a sharp turn to the right Tuesday by declaring that France has "too many foreigners," the BBC reports.
"Our system of integration is working more and more badly, because we have too many foreigners on our territory and we can no longer manage to find them accommodation, a job, a school," Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera.
Sarkozy, the son of a Hungarian immigrant, is trailing in polls to the Socialist candidate, Francois Hollande, and may therefore be competing to draw votes away from infamous anti-immigrant and perennial presidential also-ran Marine Le Pens.
In an interview, Sarkozy said he wants to reduce the number of immigrants France welcomes annually from 180,000 down to just 100,000, as well as place tighter restriction on doling out welfare benefits to immigrants.
Sarkozy's conservative stance on immigrants is nothing new, and he has even implemented tougher immigration laws - especially against gypsies - since taking the presidency.
The campaign for France's top job has taken a bit of a nasty turn, surprising and disquieting many French voters, Reuters reports.
Dominique Wolton, a political language specialist at the CNRS research institute, told Reuters: "The candidates are too close in their positions on many key areas, so they are beating up on each other."
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No matter how much hard earned money people can put together to build their countries the way they want there are those that can print up what ever it takes to dictate their way.
Maybe this will help make the danger of fiat money clear.
Imagine you and me are setting across from each other. We create enough money to represent all of the world's wealth. Each one of us has one SUPER Dollar in front of him.
You own half of everything and so do I.
I'm the government though. I get bribed into creating a Central Bank.
You're not doing what I want you to be doing so I print up myself eight more SUPER Dollars to manipulate you with.
All of a sudden your SUPER Dollar only represents one tenth of the wealth of the world!
That isn't the only thing though. You need to get busy and get to work because YOU'VE BEEN STIFFED with the bill for the money I PRINTED UP to get YOU TO DO what I WANTED.
That to me represents what has been happening to the economy, and us, and why so many of our occupations just can't keep up with the fake money presses.
Sarkozy wants to eliminate immigration (or drastically scale it back) regardless of "legality". Ammerican Immigration reform is theoretically about stopping ONLY the illegals.
As a bleeding heart, bedwetting, leftist wingnut I SHOULD be frothing at the mouth against any measures to curb illegal immigration. I SHOULD be pointing out that measures against illegal border jumping is really a thinly disguised effort to remove the brown-skinned from our population. I SHOULD be going on about how America's lust for power and riches have ruined our Latin neighbors and much of the third world and we should all be grateful that all the flood of the undocumented from the hellholes WE created want is a free ride......
But I'm not. None of it.
It all comes down to fairness. We have millions from all over who took the trouble to learn the rules, gain their sponsers, learn their English, study our constitution, take the necessary civics courses and made the effort to assimilate. These proud folk took the trouble because citizenship for the foreign born is not a right but a privilege that one earns by going through the process. I have many friends who were born in Latin America or whose parents were. I don't think it is fair that illegals expect the same benefits, simply for being here, that my friends and all the others had to work so hard for by doing it the "right" way.
It's more than unfair; it's a slap in the face.
"Legal emigrants" are important for a countries health for many reasons and must not be cut but tweaked every year for maximum economic and social output. But it is the "illegal aliens" that not only put a heavy strain on a country's economic resources they also attack the very social fabric of a country, taking over the host like a life sucking virus.
So, in general, a country that opens its permeability to the "illegal alien" virus is a "****" country that prostitutes itself (without protection) to any country that wants in! And when this country's breasts become ugly and sag prematurely and no country will want of them then they will understand the difference between "illegal aliens", "legal emigrants" and "safe sex"...
'Sarkozy's conservative stance on immigrants is nothing new, and he has even implemented tougher immigration laws - especially against gypsies - since taking the presidency.'
- Those two are contradictory statements, Mr. Norman. Are you trying to say that he's suddenly pandering to the right or that he's always been a rightie? Which one is it?
How can the world find a happy medium?
Everyone needs to practice Random acts of Kindness... Kids are being raised in too much violence, whether they watch video games or listen to it in Islamic elementary schools... It is NOT good for the world
Arab spring gave many their freedom from ruthless, arrogant and GREEDY dictators... look how those Dictators built mansions and live the best life style while outside their gated 'communities' the poor face daily struggles...