Posted on 03/28/2006 7:54:52 AM PST by quantim
"Police heavily outnumbered."
Oh the horrors, giving the boss to fire some worthless worker. There is a reason no one wants to hire employees in France, it is nearly impossible to make them do a damn thing if they don't want to.
LOL, right, no they just want to shove the mexican flag in our faces, that's probably where the mexican socialist kids got the idea to demonstrate, I doubt they have any original ideas, from French socialists.
Students and workers demonstrate in Marseille, southern France, protesting during a nationwide one-day demonstration against the "First Job Contract", a jobs plan known as CPE, Tuesday, March 28, 2006. The strike and protests were a major test for Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin in a crucial week in his ongoing standoff with opponents of the so-called first job contract _ his recipe to reduce sky-high youth unemployment levels in France. Banner reads:"All fighting against the CPE law". (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
Are you watching this? It's starting to get violent, I hope this doesn't explode, it won't serve anyone's purpose.
Welfare states can only last one generation, at most, before economic downward spiral. France is learning this lesson.
How does the French economy stay afloat. I mean you can't fire anyone, how do the companies there make a profit. I just don't understand, what is their main export?
I now they are a welfare state, but how do they have the money to afford it. Anybody know anything about the French economy.
"France is in the midst of transition, from a well-to-do modern economy that has featured extensive government ownership and intervention to one that relies more on market mechanisms. The government has partially or fully privatized many large companies, banks, and insurers. It retains controlling stakes in several leading firms, including Air France, France Telecom, Renault, and Thales, and is dominant in some sectors, particularly power, public transport, and defense industries. The telecommunications sector is gradually being opened to competition. France's leaders remain committed to a capitalism in which they maintain social equity by means of laws, tax policies, and social spending that reduce income disparity and the impact of free markets on public health and welfare. The government has lowered income taxes and introduced measures to boost employment and reform the pension system. In addition, it is focusing on the problems of the high cost of labor and labor market inflexibility resulting from the 35-hour workweek and restrictions on lay-offs. The tax burden remains one of the highest in Europe (nearly 50% of GDP in 2005). The lingering economic slowdown and inflexible budget items have pushed the budget deficit above the eurozone's 3%-of-GDP limit; unemployment stands at 10%."
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/print/fr.html
This is a good reason for never giving in to communism/socialism/progressivism/democrats. It's next to impossible to wean people from their beloved welfare state.
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"We're demanding the complete withdrawal of the CPE. You can't treat people like slaves. Giving all the power to the bosses is going too far," said Gregoire de Oliviera, a 21-year-old student in Paris."
Yes. Giving a boss the power to decide who he wants to employ is just like slavery. What a smart girl.
Is it just me, or is anyone else just amazed at the farcical turn that has taken some world news?
Riots about cartoons... riots by lazy kids...
You know, it's not like there isn't a good menu of ~real~ problems out there to get all hepped up about...
"Is it just me, or is anyone else just amazed at the farcical turn that has taken some world news?
Riots about cartoons... riots by lazy kids... "
Add protesters in American streets with mexican flags demanding the US not enforce our own laws and I do tend to get the feel we are going to hell in a handbasket.
Funny that they haven't made the logical cross-connect that what they're insisting on in tantamount to slavery of the *employer* instead of the employee.
Funny that they take this view.
Put yourself in the employers shoes. You can hire someone who is 27 years old, who in reality cannot be fired whether he performs well or not, or you can hire a 25 year old who will need to perform well to keep his job.
As an employer, I'd say this law makes it easier to hire new workers.
I went and looked at the slide show. That was really funny because I was thinking,"Well, this is no fun. My high school Spanish doesn't help me read stupid French signs" Then, I saw a big banner in ENGLISH! LOL! "We Shall Never Surrender"
They should make all their signs in English. I bet that would really tick the French government off.
I was getting more to the ridiculous being elevated to the sublime.
I don't mind the mexican flags showing up in the demonstrations here. It has backfired on them, undermined their 'cause', and shown that they're not to be taken seriously. It was self-destructive and everything we should hope for in our opposition.
As long as THEY'RE not the slaves, they don't care.
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