He wants to do away with the 35 hour week and has no place for lazy in his plan.
2007-05-10 06:48:03
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Sarkozy has been critized by the right for being an authoritarian demagogue, that he's willing to trade away human and worker rights as well as civil liberties for a few political points. He's been quoted as saying things about lower-income communities from calling them thugs and riff-raff to saying that certain areas need to be cleaned out with a Kärcher (a brand-name French pressurized cleaning tool).
In 2005, after some youths were tried and acquitted on an arson charged, he swore that those very same people would be arrested again in three months.
Sarkozy has gone on record as saying that the limit between church and state should be reduced.
The point is that he has extremely strict guidelines about criminal justice that are unrealistic and prejudice. He's the kind of person that would go into a low-income housing development and arrest them all for being poor. He is entirely anti-worker, anti-immigration, and basically anti-anyone who isn't rich or a corporate executive worth millions if not billions.
2007-05-10 15:06:58
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answered by jennocide 3
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First of all, I've been doing business in France for 20 years and am married to a French woman, so I know a few things about the place and the mentality of the people.
About thirty-five years ago, France underwent a transformation to a Socialist System. During the first twenty-five years of this period, France enjoyed a boom in their economy and quality of life. They enjoyed 6 weeks a year vacation. Free medical coverage. 35 hour work weeks.
This was great until recently, when the effects of joining the European Union caused some serious downturns in the French economy. Because of the less restrictive and less expensive costs involved in doing business in some emerging European countries, France has lost a good deal of it's industry. unemployment is very high. Workers from other poor European countries are overwhelming the social programs. small companies are saddled with strict rules and regulations regarding hiring and firing people.
Something has to change, but the French people are not willing to sacrifice their cushy lives.
Sarkosy sees that the economy is going downhill, and that you can't have half of the population working in some way or another for the government, without breaking the other 50%.
He has campaigned on the idea that France needs to tighten it's belt, work harder, and make some sacrifices to compete and survive. Interestingly enough, even the Unions and many blue-collar workers who are usually pro-socialist agreed with him and gave him their vote.
However, their is a minority of the poulation that wants to go on pretending that everything is fine the way it is and they act out whenever anyone rocks their boat.
You can't riot when there are not enough jobs and then riot when someone tries to create more by loosening the restrictions on hiring and firing. (Basically, anyone who gets a job in France as it is now, can't be fired).
My wife agrees that somthing has to really change with the mentality of the population before things get better. That's why she prefers to live and work in the US.
2007-05-10 14:22:45
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answered by jack b 3
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Your last line hits the nail on the head. Sarcozy may not technically be a "fascist," but he is clearly anti-labor and anti-immigrant. In addition he has made clear he wants restrictions--what aamounts to an apartheid--against French citizens who happen to be Muslim.
The only reason this nut case got elected is the same as why Bush got re-elected: the more liberal candidate, like Kerry, was a really dump choice for a candidate.
2007-05-10 14:01:01
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answered by Anonymous
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Because he is not a socialist. All of the people that are rioting are anti-capitalists. In other words they are looking for a government who will take care of them instead of taking care of themselves. The immigrants want more handouts and Sarkozy won't be willing to give them anything. I would expect to see some massive deportation effort in France within the next two years as they are currently being over run with Muslim North Africans..
2007-05-10 13:50:15
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answered by blakereik 4
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He has a long track record of making racist, sexist, and other offensive statements. Hes pretty right-wing for a French politician, so naturally theres going to be some reaction from the French left. But to be fair, the ones who are rioting are mostly far leftists, punks, anarchists and such, who go to protests in order to start riots, smash windows and set cars on fire. Its not that they really care about changing things, they just want to destroy things.
2007-05-10 13:54:53
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answered by Jesus W. 6
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He is pro-capitalist and a bit of a nationalist (not to mention his conservative sentiments that lean toward the U.S. and the U.K.). Most of the rioters are either anarchists or socialists, of which the extreme opposite is a fascist.
Think of it as a scale where on one end you have fascism, the other end anarchism. In the middle you have your typical conservatives and liberals, socialists and capitalists. By calling him a fascist, they are pushing him to an extreme, hoping others will see his policies as being extreme.
Read more about fascism below.
2007-05-10 13:52:37
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answered by Mark D 2
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You have to realize how far France had drifted to the left. A fairly reasonable conservative looks like a fascist, when you're used to standing to the left of Stalin.
2007-05-10 13:51:06
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answered by B.Kevorkian 7
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Define students. = The "students" are Labor Union Muslims
2007-05-10 14:01:34
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answered by Anonymous
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He wants to take their meal ticket away and put them to work.
And work more than 20 hours a week.
2007-05-10 13:54:01
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answered by hazard to your heath 3
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he wants to get away from the state paying for everything. most of the jobs are state jobs........paid for by tax payers.
he wants to make it legal for universities to have more say in who gets in college and who doesnt, they say it is making the universities privatized. i would imagine that means not run, again, by the state.
his ideas step away from socialism. but, now i was just reading that he now wants to make concessions and work with the commies. they disagree with him so they take to the streets and destroy private property. its the way of the commie. its their way or the highway.
2007-05-10 13:50:51
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answered by Mustardseed 6
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