Students march in Paris as the unrest spreads

The Daily Telegraph ^ | March 15, 2006 | Colin Randall

[MadIvan]

You don't have the right to a job. You have to earn your work as much as you earn your pay - to expect it to be handed to you on a silver platter is simply...spoiled.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The right to proper jobs?

Sorry, mon ami, not everyone can carry the white flag for their country.

[Old Sarge]

"This is not 1968 all over again,"

How ironic. That's precisely what their Socialist brothers in America want...

[MadIvan]

1968 was one of the worst years of the modern era. Everything from the crushing of the Prague Spring to the Paris demonstrations, meant it was an unending litany of pure crap.

Which makes it very unusual that the French students don't want it to be 1968 all over again.

Regards, Ivan

[dasboot]

They strike because the measure will end rampant unemployment.....they LIKE to be rampantly unemployed. There's a good living in it. Like, they'll have to work for their money. That's the Anglo-Saxon model they loathe.

[MadIvan]

Yes, they don't like having to embrace real life and that one has to earn a living. Too bad.

Regards, Ivan

[wita]

I desparately want one of those proper jobs. Whine and cheese tasting sounds good, and how about food taster for people who could possibly be poisoned, latrine duty has its merits, can't get fired from that one, there are a thousand proper jobs for people like Elodie, I don't see what the problem is. Get out there and grab em while they are hot.

[dasboot]

Too bad, as well, the Anglo-Saxon model has fallen out of favor in our Anglo-Saxon nations. I guess we haven't quite reached critical mass, though.

[hershey]

Notice Chirac was out of France when he announced support of the 'right wing' govt.'s law. What France needs is a race of robots to do all the nasty work, while the proletariat can do as they please. Oh, I forgot, that's why they let all those Muslims in.

[DB]

This is a good example why I have no hope for the French.

They're determined to destroy themselves...

[capitalist229]

We are marching for the right to proper jobs."

Sorry, nobody has the right to a job unless they are willing to work at Chinese wages.

BUMP

[jocon307]

"Oh, I forgot, that's why they let all those Muslims in."

Riiiiiight, worked out well, non? NO!

[libertylover]

to expect it to be handed to you on a silver platter is simply...spoiled.

Small correction: to expect it to be handed to you on a silver platter is simply...spoiled liberal.

[jalisco555]

They march because these are the privileged who will get the jobs. Once they get these jobs they know they can't be fired. What they fear is that in an open economy the not-so-privileged will outcompete them so it's crucial that they never get that chance. It's the opposite of 1968. They march for stasis, not for change.

[vimto]

That's right, the real problem is the socialist labor laws that make it virtually impossible to fire anyone. No wonder employers are not keen to employ people. So - productivity is low, the economy stagnates and unemployment rises. Socialist logic defeats itself eventually.

[DustyMoment]

Let me guess, more hooliganism from French yutes, right?

France has so many social issues they have created for themselves, it will take a century of social unrest to rectify them. Their employment contract for life is about as dumb an idea as I have ever heard for a country that still claims to be a free democracy.

They sound more like a borderline socialist/communist country every day.

[GVnana]

We don't want the Anglo-Saxon economic model here

These people are so far removed from the "Anglo-Saxon model" the comparison doesn't make sense.

[prairiebreeze]

Thanks for the ping Ivan. A right to jobs....suuure.

[chilepepper]

Anglo-Saxon economics ping.