Posted on 03/25/2006 6:24:52 PM PST by cougar_mccxxi
Hundreds of thousands of people - mostly students - have taken to the streets in France for a second week of protests against the controversial new employment contracts. Caroline Wyatt has been considering whether they might be the symptom of a greater malaise in French society.
"To the barricades!" is the cry heard again on the streets of France, as they ring to the sound of student chants.
The crisp early springtime air on the Left Bank is filled once more with the heady scent of revolution, black coffee and Gauloises.
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""The government must create jobs," Victor, an economics student tells me as he prepares to march again."
They have HUGE problems in France if this is the attitude of business students.
These are the same people who do not have enough "power" to get and/or keep at a job?
The really stupid thing is that the government is doing the only thing it can to help create a business climate that might create jobs-- making it possible for an employer to take a chance on an unknown entry level worker and then fire him/her if they don't pull their weight-- and it is this attempted change that they are rioting to stop.
So, they'd rather have no job, than a job that they can get fired from.
I majored in Marxist studies. I took part in riots where we smashed windows and burned cars, to make the government keep a law that guarantees me a job for life (or until your company goes bankrupt). Based on that, I want you to hire me.
Did I miss anything?
Congressman Billybob
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Far too many Americans think it's our government's place to create jobs.
"Give us what we want or we'll break stuff and set it on fire" is not 'people power'.
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Too many people think the government actually makes wealth, because it prints currency. A naive understanding of basic society.
"I called it mob rule and gave them a whiff of grapeshot!"
Just one thing - most of these people actually aspire to a government job, thats the prize in France.
Let these "people" have at it here, and they'll run right into the muzzle of the 2nd Amendment.
"""The government must create jobs," Victor, an economics student tells me as he prepares to march again." "
If only Chirac had a magic wand.
I was a participant (just another face in the crowd) during the Philippine "people power" campaign against Marcos the dictator. This French business isn't "people power". Its just anarchy.
Some photos of "people power"
http://360.yahoo.com/luisalegria
This was centrally directed, organized, non-violent, and disciplined, which is a bit unusual for Filipinos. But it was done and it worked.
"France today does feel like a tinder box, a nation dancing on a volcano"It is. Very much like France in 1788!
"As the world around them changes at a baffling rate, her students want the old certainties back"This is the only certainty: In a matter of decades la belle France will be a Muslim theocracy, with the Koran as the constitution and the shariah as French national law, and Arabic, not French, will be the national language.
"It is true that politically, a war has begun for the very soul of France, to decide how it faces the future."France faces the future as an Islamic theocracy.
"Such odd revolutionaries. No heartfelt cry to change the world, but a plea for everything to stay the same."Nothing will stay the same. The coming Islamic Revolution threatens to be as terrible as the revolution of 1789. Pray that it will not! Pray that the French people awaken in time to save themselves.
They love the smell of Renaults burning in the morning. Smells like... surrender.
Mob rule, This is called democracy.
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