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| 'Marshall aid' plan for France's ghettos |
| 2004-09-16 |
| France is to spend £8.7 billion on a programme to tackle unemployment, disaffection and increasing religious extremism in its Muslim-dominated ghettos. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #14 Yeah...yeah...that's the ticket alright. Give the Muslims a taste of a Marshall Plan. God knows 60 years later France still unfailingly shows it's gratitude and support to the country that paid for the original Marshall Plan. |
| Posted by: Mark Z. 2004-09-16 6:01:01 PM |
| #13 Typical French Government response to a social crisis: throw money at it. Dependency culture, anyone? |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-09-16 12:22:05 PM |
| #12 They don't need a Marshall plan... they need a martial plan. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-09-16 12:04:00 PM |
| #11 If they're smart they'll pay a few mellow Sufi Islam preachering Turks to come on in and work the mosque circuit in the ghettos. Someones got to undo the Wahhabism and I just don't see French Haute Culture as the antidote. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2004-09-16 11:53:11 AM |
| #10 France fiddles as the |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-16 11:33:32 AM |
| #9 More tax money that will not create revenues, so more tax burden on a country with a sluggish economy. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-16 11:33:08 AM |
| #8 They owe US about $8 billion for their portion of the Marshall Plan still, don't they? |
| Posted by: Anonymous6484 2004-09-16 10:38:26 AM |
| #7 and we all know how much good it does to dump money into ghettos. No doubt it won't go to police to stem the violence or loans to start businesses. No, it will go to programs to teach the French how to understand the Muslims and grant money for useless projects that study how to deal with "religious extremism" and other such grant grasping crap. |
| Posted by: 2B 2004-09-16 10:16:49 AM |
| #6 What ever happen to my pretty good society? People laughed at my WIN buttons but, hey! Looks like they worked! BTW I could whip Jimmuah the C in everything from chess to chineese checkers. |
| Posted by: Gerald Ford 2004-09-16 9:48:55 AM |
| #5 or plane tickets to get them out of France... |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2004-09-16 3:03:26 AM |
| #4 If they're smart, they'll spend most of the money on electric fences. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-16 2:12:44 AM |
| #3 Sounds more like the Great Society than the Marshall Plan. Public housing projects, bussing and plenty of welfare for all. Will the dad's be the single parents under French sharia? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-09-16 2:07:21 AM |
| #2 Since they're calling it a "Marshall Plan" I suppose they want us to pay for it. I really hate those f*cking slimy French bastards! |
| Posted by: Tibor 2004-09-16 1:37:05 AM |
| #1 Part of the price tag for the journalists? |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-09-16 12:47:59 AM |