Monthly Archives: March 2006

Yet another article that does not address the real problems of socialism in France. The unemployment rate of the youth in France is nearing 25 percent yet the international media doesn’t want to see the trees through the forest! The reason that unemployment is so high is because the labor unions! Unemployment is at 10 percent in France Because you don’t have to work to survive. You can exist on the welfare system just fine.

The same holds true for the young college students in France. They get out of school and there is no incentive to work. They can just get on the dole and kick back waiting for the optimal job that they don’t have to work hard to keep because of the labor unions. Now this is a simplistic way of looking at a complex issue, but President Chrac needs to implement reform because France is collapsing under it’s own socialist weight.

I hope this all plays out to the end because it will show some of you indoctrinated union nazi’s here in America how inherently wrong the union philosophy really is. JD

Unemployment stymies France’s attempt at reform
General strike threatened over First Job law
Fears grow over barrier dividing society
Mar. 20, 2006. 01:00 AM
TOM HENEGHAN
REUTERS NEWS AGENCY

PARIS—From the burning suburbs of last autumn to this weekend’s huge marches of students and workers, the spectre of unemployment haunts French politics and stymies the government’s attempts at reform.

The national unemployment rate is 9.6 per cent and tops 20 per cent for youths, but several French factors — such as strict labour laws, job discrimination and fear of globalization — spread the angst even wider.

Rage, in part at being shut out of the job market, fuelled riots by suburban youths of Arab and African origin last autumn.

Middle-class students who feel sidelined and exploited in the struggle for work are marching now.

Trade unions have joined in, fearing their working members could one day see labour laws that protect them melt before their eyes if Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin does not withdraw his new Contrat première embauche (First Job Contract), or CPE.

“Little by little, the feeling has spread that there is an internal barrier separating those who are in the system — well paid or not, they can plan their lives, rent a flat, get a loan — and those outside it,” said sociologist François Dubet.

“The world of the suburbs and the world of middle-class students live in growing insecurity,” he told the daily Le Monde.

“When unemployment hits 25 per cent of an age group, one soon feels one could fall on the wrong side of the barrier.”

The French call the wrong side “précarité” (precariousness), a term that covers outright unemployment, casual work and jobs someday likely to be downsized or outsourced by the global trends undermining the vaunted French social model.

More than 20 per cent of youths nationally and up to 40 per cent to 50 per cent in the suburbs have neither a job nor much hope of one.

For de Villepin, whose hopes to become president next year depend on his strategy for cutting unemployment, CPE is a step forward he says could spur bosses to hire new staff.

It allows employers, who say that labour laws coddle the workers and discourage them from hiring, to fire workers under 26 without reason in their first two years on the job.

Seen through the spectacles of “précarité,” de Villepin’s CPE institutionalizes the shaky situation in which the young French find themselves.

“The CPE is not better than nothing. It’s worse than everything,” read some protestors’ posters yesterday.

Official statistics show young French work an average of nine years in précarité — unpaid internships, three-month contracts and occasional stints collecting unemployment benefits — before landing the coveted long-term contract that puts them on the protected side of the barrier.

These long-term contracts require employers to justify convincingly any firing, offer workers options to appeal through labour courts and set generous indemnities if someone is laid off.

Trade unions, which usually only defend their members on the right side of this divide, see CPE as de Villepin’s wedge to undermine their members’ long-term contracts, and today’s student unions, once hotbeds of revolution and utopia, are lined up with trade unions to fight the law.

“Youths are in a kind of permanent conservative revolt because they feel that any political decision will deregulate the system and make their generation more precarious,” sociologist Erwan Lecoeur told the daily Le Figaro.

With mass protests on this scale and the threat of a general strike, this is the point when a French president, ensconced in his Élysée Palace, might direct his prime minister to scrap the reform.

De Villepin seems determined to tough it out but risk-averse President Jacques Chirac could call him back at any time.

“Reform in France has two enemies, the Élysée and the street, and the first is afraid of the second,” wrote Claude Imbert in the weekly Le Point.

“I exclude any withdrawal of the CPE, which must be given a chance to work,” de Villepin said in an interview published yesterday by monthly magazine Citato, adding he regretted misunderstandings over the law.

Separately, government spokesman Jean-François Cope said the government was open to dialogue to improve aspects of the bill but gave no hint it could be withdrawn or suspended.

The comments were likely to harden the position of student and union leaders who organized protests yesterday, which they said brought 1.5 million people onto the streets in 160 towns. Police reported 500,000 protestors.

Unions and left-wing parties favour a general strike March 23, said Olivier Besancenot, a young Trotskyite leader.

Police said 167 protestors were arrested in Paris after rioting hurt 17 protestors and seven security officials.

About 1,000 students in Paris did rally to demand the right to study, witnesses said. Students opposing CPE have blocked many universities only weeks before exams begin.

Some 60 per cent of voters want CPE withdrawn, according to a BVA poll for the daily Depeche du Midi, while 69 per cent said marchers were justified. Left-wing parties and unions were to meet today to consider future action.

Yet another American citizen has been killed by an illegal alien here in America. So far this year that 26 Americans that have died as the direct result of illegal immigration. All of these people would be alive if the illegal aliens were not here in the first place. I need President Bush, Senators McCain and Kennedy to explain to me just one more time how illegal immigration is good for Americans.

Keep in mind that the families of those killed by illegal aliens have NO legal recourse for monitary compensation. Illegal aliens have no insurance. The have no legal assets to attach either. Should anyone try to attach their wages they find it impossible because the illegal alien is working under the table. As soon as the water gets too choppy they run back to mexico anyway, so the family of the victim is basically screwed. Welcome to America!!!

JD

WEST PALM BEACH — An illegal Mexican immigrant has been charged with driving a vehicle that hit and killed a middle school principal, authorities said.

Cesar Mejia will be transferred from Krome Detention Center to a jail where he will await trial on a vehicular homicide charge.

Mejia tried to out run a yellow light March 8 and hit a vehicle driven by Margaret “Peggy” Campbell, 62, authorities said. Campbell, who lived near Jupiter, had been the principal at Western Pines Middle School since it opened in 1997.

Mejia, who was carrying a driver’s license from Mexico, also was charged with driving without a valid license.

“Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don’t want him to go back to Mexico,” Prosecutor Ellen Roberts said.

It was not immediately known if Mejia had an attorney.

Read this article. The author writes the story as if it’s the border patrols fault that this illegal ALIEN came to America and his daughter was killed. What a joke.

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) – Juan Cruz-Torralva brought his 12-year-old daughter through the desert along the U.S.-Mexico border because he wanted a better life for her in the United States.

Three days into the journey, a U.S. Border Patrol agent spotted the group of illegal immigrants, and as the agent chased them, the Border Patrol truck hit Cruz-Torralva and his daughter, Lourdes, killing her.

Yuma County sheriff’s detectives determined the death was an accident, but Cruz-Torralva was arrested on charges of endangerment. Deputies argued that he had placed the child in “risk of imminent death” by bringing her into the desert.

A prosecutor on Monday refused to pursue the case, saying there wasn’t enough evidence to prove the charge.

Cruz-Torralva, meanwhile, sat in jail and said he didn’t understand why he was there.

“They said it’s my fault for bringing her here, that it’s my fault my daughter died. But I wasn’t driving the truck,” said the 28-year-old farm worker from Oaxaca, Mexico, who speaks limited Spanish.

He said he can barely walk since the accident, and his parents in Mexico are ill and don’t have jobs.

“I just wanted her to get a good education,” he said tearfully.

He had planned to take her to Oxnard, Calif., where his wife was living with the couple’s 2-month-old son. He wanted to enroll Lourdes in school and work in the area’s strawberry fields, he said.

“I was looking for a better life,” he said. “I needed money to send to my family.”

According to a report by the Yuma County Attorney’s office, Cruz-Torralva and his daughter were among a dozen illegal immigrants followed by a Border Patrol agent.

After they stopped, the agent got out of his truck, heard moaning and discovered he had run over Cruz-Torralva and his daughter.

Cruz-Torralva was jailed March 8. The Mexican consul general in Yuma told him Monday that he would be returned to Mexico.

“He doesn’t understand what happened,” Consul General Hugo Rene Oliva Romero said outside the jail. “He’s very concerned about the body of his daughter.”

Richard Hays, a spokesman with the Border Patrol, would not comment on the case because an internal investigation was under way.

Cruz-Torralva said he just wants to go home to Mexico to be with his family.

“My daughter is dead, and my mom and dad are sick,” he said. “I’ve been in jail for a week, I don’t have any money, and I’m in pain.”

“I just want to leave this place and never come back,” he added, wiping tears from his eyes. “Never.”

Again, for the gazillionth time, I have received a rather threatening letter via snail mail from someone that opposes one of my political opinions. This time it was received for the following letter to the editor of the local newspapers in and around the San Gabriel Valley;

Bonita Unified School District held an Internet Safety meeting for the parents of students in the district. The meetings consisted of The Internet and Destructive Behavior, A tour of My space and ways to safeguard our kids. I did not attend these meetings because I believe that the problem isn’t the Internet. It’s the Bonita Unified School District.

In the last two months there have been two arrests of teachers that work for the Bonita school district. Walter Edward Babst was a 10th grade math teacher at Bonita High School. He was arrested in an Internet sting in Miraloma. He went to a house to have sex with a 13 year old girl. Most of the female students had complained that he was always leering at them and trying to look up their dresses and down their blouses.

Then on February 28, Debra Lynn Pence, 47, was booked on suspicion of having unlawful sexual intercourse and committing lewd acts upon a child 14 or 15. She was a teacher at Allen Avenue Elementary School, just around the corner from my house and the same school both of my daughters attended.

My concern here is not the Internet. My children are online right now as I type this and WHENEVER they are on the Internet I am right beside them, monitoring their activities. This is how you safeguard your children, not by attending some dopey meeting designed to placate a bunch of hand wringing parents.

As for the district, I believe that all of the teachers in the Bonita district should be required to allow law enforcement officials to look at their personal computers and see exactly what they are up to. I also believe that there should be a thorough background check be done annually. I know this seems a little drastic, but these are the people that we are trusting with our children. Bonita Unified is batting 1000 in the game of pedophile baseball. This is a simple solution to remedy the situation.

John A. De Gennaro

I will post the unsigned letter I received tomorrow or as soon as the FBI gives me the go ahead. Here is what we know so far. The letter was mailed from Pasadena, California on March thirteenth. I checked my hits log for my websites and I received two hits from someone at 9:15 and 9:24 am on that same day. Both of these hits looked up my name on Google. Both of these searches brought the individual to my sites. I handed all of this information over to the FBI and as in all of the other times I have been threatened, I sure they will find the perpetraitor of this crime.

As for my opinon of my school district, I am trusting these teachers with my children for eight hours a day. Twenty five years ago no one would have ever thought that preists were up to shananigans with our children. BUT THEY WERE AND STILL ARE!!! What makes any of us think that teachers are above reproach?

JD