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...were president, do you think it is time to finally cut foreign aid out to allies whose population protests us and devote those dollars to the home front? It appears that for all our good intentions, the recipients abroad hate us even more and as they say, "Charity begins at Home." -Terry I. Davis from Van Buren, Arkansas...
...nation is choking on congested traffic both on the roads and in the air as well as an antiquated system of roads, bridges, airports, water and sewage systems. I would be hesitant to say that we have spent too much time being concerned on what is going on abroad, because that does have an impact on us. But I think we have not spent enough time thinking about our own nation and its strength. And its strength not only being the military strength, buts its economic viability with the kind of infrastructure, education system, concern of the environment and education...
...election issue: almost 1 million of them have registered to vote in the two rounds, on April 22 and May 6, more than double the number in the last presidential election in 2002. Royal's Socialist Party briefly mooted whether to institute a tax on French who move abroad, but soon dropped the idea. For his part, Sarkozy staged a boisterous election rally in London in January, a first for a French presidential candidate, and urged the crowd of about 2,500 expats to return. "We need your work, your intelligence, your imagination and your enthusiasm," Sarkozy said, adding, "Seeing...
...right, centrist François Bayrou and Ségolène Royal, the Socialist Party's candidate, are all taking aim at a France they describe as "blocked" and "immobile." And they are making promises galore to resolve many of the issues that have sent these young French abroad in the first place. Royal wants to hand out $13,000 interest-free loans to aspiring entrepreneurs, and says she will create 500,000 state-funded jobs to get young people into the workforce. Sarkozy pledges to introduce a new work ethic to France, and better reward those who work...
...outdated." She and her husband left for Tokyo five years ago, and recently moved to London, where she's currently doing an M.B.A. She says about one in five of her classmates from the Edhec Business School in Lille, where she studied marketing a decade ago, also moved abroad. That pace is now quickening: the school says one in four of its class of 2006 found their first jobs outside France. Her own brief work experience in France was typical of recent graduates: she says she was put on a series of temporary contracts in her first...