[AlaskaErik]

So, if representative democracy works as it is supposed to do, Sarkozy will push through the market reforms that France has needed for at least two decades. He will deregulate its labor market, slim down the public-sector payroll, abandon the symbolic 35-hour work week, reduce public spending from its current 52 percent of GDP, and reform the French welfare state.

Good freakin' luck. The riots will begin as soon as his reform plan is announced.

[Nathan Zachary]

" Good freakin' luck. The riots will begin as soon as his reform plan is announced."

They already have.

I guess it will be a matter of numbers, whether or not there are enough French citizens who are tired of carrying around the useless who think they are entitled to 2/3's of their paycheck. Of course, if they have media against them, it won't be an easy fight. All they have to do is look at what's going on in America with corrupt media supporting the marxist party here to see what kind of uphill battle they face. They have nothing to loose at this point however. If they loose, France and the rest of Europe behind it will continue to head towards total economic and societal collapse as it always does under the marxist stupidity the keep on inflicting upon themselves. This is sort of like a last chance effort to row back upstream just before the boat goes over the falls- too little too late.