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Conservative Sarkozy Wins Presidency of France
Reader reporter tips us to a story just up at the NYTimes reporting that the tough-talking conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has won election as the president of France. His opponent, Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal, the first woman to get as far as the runoff in a presidential contest in France, has conceded defeat. The vote went 53% to Sarkozy and the turnout was a remarkable (by American standards) 85% of registered voters. Sarkozy is seen as a divisive figure for his demand that immigrants learn Western values (and the French language).
I don't know about France, but here in Germany the equivalent to the Republicans is also called Republicans.
Well, let's dissect that "terrorists win" rhetoric for a second shall we?
We elected Democrats to the majority in Congress right? And right now the Democrats are pushing for us to leave Iraq. Rightly so. Ending wars is a highly desirable thing. So if we leave Iraq, do the terrorists win or lose?
There are no ties in warfare.
No, conservatives in the US want a "guest worker program" where Mexicans are indentured servants, paid less than minimum wage, live in whatever horrible conditions the company choses to supply, and have just exactly one human right... the right to be dragged back over the Mexican border if they don't like it.
That will indeed be a very effective way to drive down the wages of American workers. What's more, it will further increase the national debt, as more and more money is sent straight out of the US, to be spent in Mexico.
The democrats, at least, want to legalize immigrants, therefore giving them the right to minimum wage, unionize, complain, protest, boycott, strike, search for alternative employment, relocate as needed, spend their wages in the US, etc., etc.
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