I've heard about this happening before. Hillary is spotted, their first instinct is to run, but then the very sight of her stops them dead in their tracks from pure fright and permanent brain damage seeing her causes.
Posted on 03/18/2006 11:21:13 AM PST by ohioWfan
Fox has just been covering student rioting in Paris over a new job measure. If anyone has more details, please post.
the media only covers riots when they are done by non-muslims.
I found the Washington Cathedral and the Montreal cathedral both look like copies of notre dame and to me seemed even better than the original.
Was this because they liked the US or because they hated the English ?
children should be allowed to work if they wish, and the minimum wage should be abolished... then we could compete with China and wouldn't have to buy everything from them.
There's a difference between being on our side... and opposing the English.
To think, Chirac is considered a CONSERVATIVE in France.
BOY are French stuck on stupid or they just surrender to these maniacs LOL!
Yep, that kind of threw me but I've gotten 2 posts on it so I guess the French consider him Conservative. I don't think he'd make it on FR though as a Conservative. :-)
To sum it up..they passed some laws which protect employers..and a bunch of lazy bums are rioting because they think companies should be forced to hire them.
Not nearly enough tear gas and busted heads.
These are hereby nominated for the most intellectual and factual posts regarding these events. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4816306.stm
Greatest Scientist was a Pole (Marie Curie)
Greatest General was an Italian by way of Corsica (Napoleon)
Greatest Composer was a Pole (Chopin)
Greatest Leading Man was Italian (Yves Montand nee Ernesto Livi)
Those ladies working in factories in the Pearl River Delta are making more money and have better working conditions then if they were doing agricultural labor or working as Prostitutes in Guangzhou.
I hate the government in Beijing, but the folks working the factories in China are not "slaves" by any standard.
The scary thing is that the Democrat agenda in this country is to turn America into a Euro-style, secular-socialist welfare state so that we can be as great as.... FRANCE! And people VOTE for the scumbags! (Shudder)
Speaking as one who has traveled through Europe and done business in France, Germany, Spain, and Italy, I THANK GOD everyday that my great grandparents got the hell out of there.
I've heard about this happening before. Hillary is spotted, their first instinct is to run, but then the very sight of her stops them dead in their tracks from pure fright and permanent brain damage seeing her causes.
LOL. Depends upon your opinion of the Brits, I s'pose!
Yes the French were mainly interested in preserving their colonial interests in the Americas, at the time. Didn't work out for them in the end. Suppose that's why they're so cranky towards us these days?
Don't think 'hate' was really it. They were competing with the Brits for dominance in the Americas. Likely saw our independence as a way to loosen King Geo's grip. Didn't work out for them in the end, but they did us a favor whether they really meant to or not (unless you'd rather live under a monarch).
"Of course, government jobs are pretty much like that here, as well."
Most government jobs here in the U.S. have a 6-month probationary period within which you can be fired for any reason at all. After that, you still can be fired with cause; it's just that the process to do so is cumbersome and tedious. However, it can still be done. I know this as I worked in management at a major state university.
Plus, there were different levels of workers. Unionized workers, such as janitorial, clerical, housekeeping, grounds, etc., were protected by union contracts, and the process to can someone was difficult, but not at all impossible. Another layer were the contract workers. They were usually professionals such as tech support, part-time instructors, many managerial and higher administrative people. Their contracts were usually for 1 year, and if someone was unhappy with a worker's product, when their one-year contract was up, they could be given a 6-month notice within which to go find another job, and by the end of the 6-month period were gone. The third class of workers (I'm speaking of that which I know about here which is universities, although when younger I had a different state job once and it worked pretty much the same way) were the professors, deans, college presidents, chancellors, vice-chancellors, etc. Highest management and administration along w/the academics. The professors were tenured, and most of the other positions were held by professors who moved into management and/or administration, and thus also had tenure (or a long-term contract in some cases). Amongst this category, you almost had to be an axe murderer in order to get canned. It just doesn't happen, as the Ward Churchill case proves. So, depending on your category, most people could be fired eventually, with the exception of the profs of whom, once they had tenure, were pretty much invincible to job loss.
The brink of chaos?
They're over the edge. And taking the rest of Europe with them, barring a miracle.
And so what we are witnessing in France is typical economic class conflict. The "yoots" rioted. The parliament responded, in concert with industry. The indigenous middle class (with Communist and socialist influence) responds. The police crackdown is much more harsh, with rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons deployed immediately. Fortunately America creates "set-asides". And our media states as fact that Americans will not "scrub toilets, nor work in the horrible agricultural areas". And we have the audacity to condemn europeans? This is interesting to observe.
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