29 May 2005

Three Cheers for France

No, I haven't gone off my meds. I'm actually happy about something the French people did for once. Read all about it here.

54.87% of French voters said non to the EU's first constitution on Sunday. This is a good sign for freedom-loving people everywhere. France is the driving force behind the EU's pathetically socialist constitution, one that, in my opinion, creates a nanny state with all sorts of disincentives for personal responsibility. The more people who live under non-socialist democracies, the better.

I do realize that some portion of the non voters are extreme leftists who think the EU constitution didn't go far enough to safeguard the 35 hour work week, eight weeks of paid vacation, retirement at 55, etc. One opponent of the EU constitution was handing out posters that read "No to a free-market Europe." Politics makes strange bedfellows indeed.

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