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Royal unveils 100 proposals ‘to make France strong’
2007-02-12
Posted on the off-chance that France matters.
PARIS - Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal, trailing in the opinion polls and struggling to kick start her gaffe-prone campaign, unveiled 100 proposals on Sunday that she said would make France a more regulated stronger, fairer place.

Termed ‘the laundry list presidential pact’, the policies were drawn up from the Socialist Manifesto following weeks of nationwide debates and concentrate primarily on social, economic and environmental issues. The pact contained promises to boost ‘small pensions’ by five percent, to re-negotiate and ‘consolidate’ the 35-hour work week, to increase the minimum wage and establish military-type boot camp to deal with young offenders.
More of the same from the socialists, in other words. She could have written this forty years ago. It's the same, tired, stale rhetoric and policy proposals. How ... 1960.
She also included controversial plans to set up ‘ Committee of Public Safety citizen juries’ to evaluate the work of parliamentarians, give parents a greater choice over where to school their children and do more to regulate bank fees.
It's like a Chinese restaurant menu. One from column A, two from column B ...
‘Today I offer you the presidential pact. One hundred proposals for France to rediscover a shared ambition, pride and fraternity,’ Royal will tell a mass rally on Sunday, according to the text of a speech released ahead of time.
Posted by:Steve White

#13  Unlike Britain, where Radical/Activist complaints that "Britain wants to be/is becoming America" at least has been announced publicly. dare the French demand to be SSSSSSSSSHHHHH Americans but only iff publicly dragged kicking and screaming into desired US Statehood??? MUST BE, cuz iff Les Francais/Paris' can't bury the dead or pay for every Frenchmen's vacation, I fail to see how Segolene's "100", i.e. MORE SOCIALISM-GOVT-ism, is gonna change things.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-02-12 20:28  

#12  Damn, RJ! Are you campaigning to be Guiliani's running mate or something? You've got my vote!
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-02-12 19:36  

#11  [1] I promise to export those Mulsims who seem to dispise the French nation and bring in Latin American workers if need be to work any unskilled jobs left open. After all many Latin Americans can use the work and they share a similar culture and have little desire to implement medieval theocracy upon our state.

[2] I promise to dismantle the French Union and work to gain access in the Commonwealth as an associate state and will encourage all other French Union members to do the same thus creating a worldwide group of like thinking nations to counter the US in a sane way.

[3] I promise to end French involvement in the European Union and instead fall back to a free-trade area willing to celebrate its diversity and ancient cultures.

[4] I promise to remove socialist regulations that make it nearly impossible to start or maintain small businesses in France thus hampering our economy and preventing us from competing with the Yanks.

[5] I promise to create my own foreign policy based on something other than "the opposite of whatever the Americans are doing."

Those are my five promises to return France to greatness.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2007-02-12 15:55  

#10  and establish military-type boot camp to deal with young offenders.

Her own stormtroopers.
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-02-12 13:20  

#9  Don't people learn from the past that this crap just doesn't work?
Well, liberals don't.
It's not supposed to work, it's supposed to make you feel good about yourself. Hell, anybody can work.
Posted by: wxjames   2007-02-12 12:06  

#8  No. 1 - Replace the population of France with Ethiopians.

The population replacement is already well in progress, thankyouverymuch, though not by Aethiopians.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-02-12 12:01  

#7  Restrict French TV broadcasters to playing Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. Nothing else for theree years.

Hey, it's in effect already, Tf1 broadcasted "T3" yesterday evening, but I was not aware of that, and watched Discovery Channel instead. Wuss.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-02-12 12:00  

#6  
Royal unveils 100 proposals ‘to make France strong


Restrict French TV broadcasters to playing Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. Nothing else for theree years.
Posted by: JFM   2007-02-12 11:49  

#5  Royal unveils 100 proposals ‘to make France strongÂ’

No. 1 - Replace the population of France with Ethiopians.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-02-12 10:10  

#4  How very 1960s. Matches her hairstyle.

Don't people learn from the past that this crap just doesn't work?
Well, liberals don't.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-02-12 09:43  

#3  Really not different from the Demonrats propose over here. It's just we start off in better shape, but the direction both want to take us is the same.
Posted by: Jackal   2007-02-12 07:11  

#2  Royal unveils 100 proposals ‘to make France strongÂ’

#1-100) check the hands of every citizen for calluses. Those with soft hands liquidate.
Posted by: RD   2007-02-12 03:02  

#1  She could have lifted most of it from Hitler, Mussolini, and Lenin in pre-war Europe. Ségolène, putting a relatively pleasant face on fascism.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever)   2007-02-12 01:57  

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