Sarkozy to submit bill banning Islamic face veils - Yahoo! News
PARIS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered legislation that would ban women from wearing Islamic veils that fully cover the face and body in public places, the government said Wednesday.
It is Sarkozy's first political action toward an outright ban, though he has repeatedly said such outfits oppress women and are not welcome in France, home to a firmly secular government.
Excerpted from Arguing With Idiots. below:
France- nice place to visit but unless you want to live under socialism, not a good place to live. There are few freedoms left. Massive employment, especially among the young, because of laws making you keep everyone you hire for life. If you can hire and fire "at will" you will give the young and inexperienced, a chance. Twenty three percent of young people in France are unemployed. ( Regulations ) France has now instituted a program called the "first-time contract" to give employers the ability to hire anyone under 26 years old for what is a two year contract trial period. [still....telling employers how to run their businesses] Many of the young hate this program and say in their protests, it "institutionalizes insecurity."
Most students go to schools that are virtually free and have no restrictions on entry including minimum test scores or grade point average. Teachers are government employees and education has a drop-out rate of 40 percent. France has the distinction of not even placing one school in the top 40 of the most recent worldwide rankings. France has only three schools in the top hundred. [America has managed to place 17 different schools in the top 20.]
The government takes 44 percent of GDP in taxes every year. It's not enough to cover it's expenditures. A government-commissioned report pointed out that, without drastic action, France's debt load will go from 66 percent of GDP today to 80 percent by 2010, to a castastrophic 100 percent in 2014. A recent article in the
Economist article described the general attitude there: "In France there is a lingering suspicion of profit and a demonisation of business leaders, encouraged by a mainstream Left that still equates efficiency with injustice."
The best quote I've read in a while came from an Economist article about how the French seem to only embrace capitalism when it suits them:
"France has an archaic socialism that fails to understand, or at least to explain, that wealth needs to be created before it can be shared." [The Left in America cannot understand this?]
Is America moving toward that way of thinking with all it's laws and feel-good regulations, or away from it?
The above excerpted from "Arguing With Idiots" by Glenn Beck.
Before you laugh, ask yourself if this is the kind of country you want?
