Sarko Troubles

I think that the whole world should be shaking in their boots now that Sarkozy is to be the next French president. He is, by all means, the same to France as George W. is to the States, and we have all seen where this kind of Christian conservatism has gotten the world.

It really couldn't be much worse, as the US's social fabric continues to decay due to lack of funding for basic social programs, including education and research (excluding military spending.) We watch in horror as secular social programs fall apart in the while their Christian counterparts are receiving heavy funding. These counterparts are in many ways, especially ideaologically, insufficient and inefficient.

Sarkozy must have taken a tutorial from Bush on how to win an election as the similarities are remarkable. Sarko succeeded, as minister of the interior, in creating a climate of fear wherein the French felt threatened. His hard line stance against deliquence, which is a PC way of saying against the Arabs and blacks of France, enticed the public into what they figured was saving their own lives. He also wedded his religion into his politics, often appearing with priests on camera.

I wait in disgust for France's intricate and bountiful social security net to be destroyed by privitization. What is already a messy immigrant situation will be ten times worse when brute force is the only method used to resolve it. Integration programs should be instituted so that those that are on the periphery of French society can find jobs and afford to buy their own homes. While some liberalization in regards to markets could prove useful to employment rates, France should never lose its humane socialism that has marked the last half century. If it does, we can add another disenfranchized population to the growing list of victims of capitalist greed...