"ScottW" wrote in message
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"Lionel" wrote in message
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Clyde Slick a écrit :
"MINe 109" wrote in message
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http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2005/11/6/62039/9755

"What is not happening is any 'intifada'; France is not burning; I still
doubt that its integration model is failing ; what is clearly not
tolerable anymore is how an underclass (not necessarily only the
immigrants, but where they are clearly over represented, and definitely
young and undereducated) has been sacrificed and abandoned in the
country's (real and mostly successful) efforts to adapt to increasing
international competition. They must be brought back into the fold, and
toughness is not the way."


it is an intifada.
its ok for France to not adapt to increaing international competition,

In 2004 the exchange balance between France and USA is positive.
this means that France has exported more to USA than purchased to USA.

So French people can't afford to buy US products.
You think that's a good thing?


Their purchasing power is about 60% of ours, and US goods
are more expensive there than they are here.
It is one of the costs of subsidized socialism