SHOWDOWN IN FRANCE: DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY VERSUS A RELATIVELY SMALL GROUP OF LEFTIST THUGS TRYING TO HOLD THE ENTIRE NATION HOSTAGE

NYTIMES:

President Nicolas Sarkozy urged transport workers to end their weeklong strike over pension benefits today as civil service employees, including primary school teachers, firefighters. newspaper printers and weather service employees walked out in a separate dispute over job cuts.

After a week of avoiding comment on the train strike, Mr. Sarkozy said in a speech to a group of French mayors that reform was long overdue for privileges that allow public sector employees, including the transit workers, to retire early.

“We will not surrender and we will not retreat,” Mr. Sarkozy said...

• GOOD FOR HIM!

• WHY SHOULD HE RETREAT? SARKOZY WAS ELECTED BY A MAJORITY OF THE FRENCH AND BASED ON A PLATFORM HE IS TRYING TO FULFILL.
  
• THE SOCIALISTS LOST.
  
• REPEAT: THE PARTY OF THE UNIONS LOST AT THE POLLS.
  
• IT IS WRONG FOR THE UNIONS TO TRY TO INTIMIDATE THE GOVERNMENT INTO DOING WHAT THEY COULD NOT CONVINCE THE ELECTORATE WAS NEEDED.
• PURE THUGGERY.
  

• THE UNIONS REPRESENT A TINY MINORITY TRYING TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AT THE EXPENSE OF THE ENTIRE NATION.

THESE VESTIGIAL AND DEEPLY LEFTIST UNIONS SHOULD BE SQUASHED.