vendredi 14 août 2009

Le Figaro fait pas son boulot

Il est déprimant de lire le Figaro et de constater qu'ils recrutent des journalistes qui sont le reflet non des idées de leurs lecteurs mais de celle de la tranche d'âge et de revenus qui est la leur.

En outre, comme ils recrutent désormais principalement des collaborateurs issus des écoles de journalisme, ils héritent de rédacteurs aussi incultes que la majorité des jeunes de leur âge.

Ainsi, le compte rendu que le Figaro fait des projets de réforme du système de santé américain s'attarde sur les manifestations de mécontentement mais n'explique jamais les raisons de la révolte d'une partie de la population américaine.

De la même manière que leur calamiteuse correspondante à Madrid ne lit que la presse de gauche pour s'informer, les correspondants aux Etats-Unis semblent n'écouter qu'un seul son cloche.

Pourtant, il suffit de fouiller un peu pour trouver les raisons. Elles sont simples comme le jour et claires comme de l'eau de roche. Mais voilà, il n'est pas très « politiquement correct » de le dire.

En effet, comment expliquer au bon bourgeois français au conformisme de béton armé que la principale raison du refus du système commun de santé est lié à la division raciale du pays ?

Les sociologues, comme Robert D. Putnam, ont mis en lumière que la cohésion d'une communauté est inversement proportionnelle à sa diversité raciale et ethnique. En d'autres termes, et en caricaturant un peu, on accepte de contribuer au financement de la santé de son voisin s'il a la même couleur de peau que soi. Voir l'étude ici et des commentaires .

Les nullissimes rédacteurs du Figaro ont une excuse pour ne pas connaître les travaux d'un des plus grands sociologues américains d'aujourd'hui : il n'a jamais été traduit en français !

En revanche, cette excuse ne tient pas pour les correspondants de ce que fut un grand quotidien.

Voici l'analyse du polémiste conservateur américain Pat Buchanan. On peut ne pas partager ses points de vue, mais les faits sont têtus :


Angry White Men

To hear the Obamaites, those raucous crowds pouring into town hall meetings are “mobs” of “thugs” whose rage has been “manufactured” by K Street lobbyists and right-wing Republican operatives.

Press secretary Robert Gibbs compares them to the Young Republicans of the “Brooks Brothers riot” during the Florida recount.

But is it wise for the White House to denigrate and insult scores of thousands with the fire and energy to come to town meetings in August, and who appear to represent millions? Is this depiction fair or accurate?

Most K Street lobbyists could not organize a two-car funeral. They don’t storm meetings. They buy friends with $1,000 checks. And if GOP operatives are turning out these crowds, why could they not turn them out for John McCain, unless Sister Sarah showed up?

The Obamaites had best wake up. Opposition to health-care reform is surging, and Barack Obama’s campaigning has gone hand-in-hand with collapsing support, just as George W. Bush’s barnstorming did for Social Security reform.

There is an anger out there unseen since Ross Perot was leading Bush I and Bill Clinton in the presidential trial heats in 1992.

Who are these folks? Why are they angry?

In his essay “Decline of the American Male” in USA Today, David Zinczenko, editor of Men’s Health, give us a clue. “Of the 5.2 million people who’ve lost their jobs since last summer, four out of five were men. Some experts predict that this year, for the first time, more American women will have jobs than men.”

Ed Rubenstein, who has written for Forbes, National Review and the Wall Street Journal, blogs on VDARE.com that if one uses the household survey of job losses for June-July, Hispanics gained 150,000 positions, while non-Hispanics lost 679,000. Guess who got the stimulus jobs.

Going back to the beginning of the Bush presidency, Rubenstein says that “for every 100 Hispanics employed in January 2001, there are now 122.5. … (But) for every 100 non-Hispanics employed in January 2001, there are now 98.9.”

Since 2001, Hispanic employment has increased by 3,627,000 positions, while non-Hispanic positions have fallen by 1,362,000. For black and white America, the Bush decade did not begin well or end well, and it has gotten worse under Obama.

African-Americans remain loyal, but among white folks, where Obama ran stronger than John Kerry or Al Gore, he is hemorrhaging.

According to the latest Quinnipiac poll, which showed him falling to 50 percent approval, whites, by 54 percent to 27 percent, felt Obama behaved “stupidly” in the Sgt. Crowley-professor Gates dustup.

Fifteen straight months of job losses by non-Hispanics explains the anger, but columnist Lowell Ponte raises an issue that may explain who is protesting health-care reform and why.

Under the civil rights legal doctrine of disparate impact, used in the New Haven firefighters case, if tests for hirings and promotions consistently produce results disadvantageous to minorities, the tests are, de facto, suspect as inherently discriminatory, and the results are tossed out. New Haven canceled the promotions for firefighters when all but one of the firemen who passed the test were white, and not a single African-American made the cut.

The city argued that New Haven was acting true to the letter of the Civil Rights Act, which says that tests that consistently produce a disparate and unfavorable impact on African-Americans must go.

Ponte applies the disparate impact doctrine to the trillion-dollar health-care reform.

Who are the principal beneficiaries? The 47 million uninsured who will be covered. Who are the principal losers? The elderly sick who, in the name of controlling costs, are going to lose benefits, be denied care at the end of their lives and have their lives shortened. For half of all health-care costs are in the last six months of life, and cost control is priority No. 1.

Here is where the disparate impact hits. Among those who benefit most — the uninsured — African-Americans, Hispanics and immigrants are overrepresented. Among the biggest losers — seniors and the elderly sick — well over 80 percent are white. Ponte quotes Fox News’ Dick Morris:

“The principal impact of the Obama health-care program will be to reduce sharply the medical services the elderly can use. No longer will their every medical need be met, their every medication prescribed, their every need to improve their quality of life answered.”

Under Obamacare, adds Morris, “the elderly will go from being the group with the most access to free medical care to the one with the least access.”

America is already divided ideologically and politically on health-care reform. And with seniors having to sacrifice care, while the young are all insured, a generational divide is opening.

Now Nobel prize-winner and New York Times pundit Paul Krugman writes in his “The Town Hall Mobs” column that, as did Richard Nixon’s men, “cynical political operators are … appealing to the racial fears of working-class whites.”

Pulitzer prize-winning black columnist Cynthia Tucker says 45 percent to 65 percent of all vocal opponents of Obamacare are motivated by racial hostility to a black president.

We are headed for interesting times.

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