Here, this oughta satisfy the poor, repressed, unassimilated lads:
De Villepin Springs Into Action
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has a plan for stopping the orgy of destruction and violence in his country—give the rioters lots of money, preferential treatment, and expanded social services, and crack down on discrimination against them: French PM announces raft of measures for riot-hit poor suburbs.
The intiatives are:
- the creation of an anti-discrimination agency with special officials appointed to be in charge of certain regions, and making the fight against discrimination a national priority;
- 20,000 job contracts with local government bodies or associations paid a minimum wage would be reserved for those in the suburbs struggling to find work;
- an extra 100 million euros (120 million dollars) for associations that work in the neighbourhoods;
- 5,000 more teaching assistant posts in the 1,200 schools in districts designated as troublespots;
- the creation of 15 more special economic zones that provide tax breaks to companies that set up inside them as an incentive to boost local employment.
Villepin also said ‘social imbalances due to an insufficiently controlled flow of clandestine immigration’ would be tackled.
No word on whether similar handouts are planned for those who lost cars and shops at the hands of these poor disaffected youths.
More socialism will make everything better. I mean, it's worked so far, hasn't it? Well hasn't it?
2005-11-08
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I wonder how many of the people destroying their neighbors' cars and other property were, prior to these acts, "struggling to find work."
Special tax-incentived zones to "attract jobs"... let's see: to "attract jobs" to our area (and by the way, how many of us live and work in the same area?), let's go outside and destroy property. Why bother working to make the area safer, cleaner, and more charactorized by people who work hard to master skills and aquire credentials when you can just go outside and start destroying everything?
I'm sure that Starbucks and Nissan will be very excited to learn that the areas with people setting fire to thousands of cars now have tax incentives. One strains to imagine why such companies over the years had overlooked locating their properties there, when up to just two weeks ago those areas were charactorized by serious, peacable, productive people ("struggling to find work") who make the absolute best of whatever hand they're dealt.
Those idiotic corporate captains must be kicking themselves for not to having invested there (or at least to have left their cars parked there). Had only those dastardly police not forced those "youths" to hop a fence marked, "DANGER! DO NOT ENTER", after chasing the the lads out of a library during a physics study session (just prior to their scheduled Camus reading).
I suppose when insurance companies subsequently increase rates in these areas, they well get accused of "red-lining" / "racism." We all know that white folks (who are All Powerful and Control the World; Reistance is Futile) would prefer (and thus Mandate) that non-whites be unemployed and on-edge, rather than educated and tax-paying.
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