French Protesters Pour Into the Streets

Yahoo! News ^ | 3/28/06 | JAMEY KEATEN

[libertarianPA]

French police have been authorized to yell, "Stop!" if necessary.

[saganite]

It's inevitable. France will surrender to itself.

[areafiftyone]

French police have been authorized to yell, "Stop!" if necessary.

LOL

[squarebarb]

Ah, the delusions of socialism. So hard to give up.

[mainepatsfan]

Whoa! That sounds pretty fascist to me. /s

[libertarianPA]

I'll give em this - they're very militant about being able to legally keep their jobs regardless of performance.

[Tulane]

There is an important lesson in all of this -- once you give an entitlement it is almost impossible to take it back, no matter the drain on the economy.

[FearlessFreep]

[Frank T]

Ronald McDonald & Friends - quick! - barracade your storefront and man the forward positions. Les barbarians are coming.

[mainepatsfan]

Maybe in 1940 the French generals should have told their soldiers that the Germans were coming to take their jobs.

[FreedomNeocon]

I'm sure it helps that Cireac was quoted in some french publication as saying "if the protests do not die down, Villepan is will sacked"

I know I spelled all their names wrong... I don't care ;)

[libertarianPA]

Nice!

[mainepatsfan]

They'd have been marching through Berlin that June instead of vice versa.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Welfare states cannot support itself over a multi-generation timeline.

By the 2nd and 3rd generation, any work ethic is destroyed.

[aft_lizard]

Sadly I cant make fun of the poodles on this while our streets are clogged with thousands of illegals demanding rights.

[ohhhh]

[Students and labor unions say the contract will erode France's cherished workplace protections. &
We have to defend the rights that were won by our ancestors and which the current government is trying to take away,&
"We are here for our children. We are very worried about what will happen to them," said Philippe Decrulle, an Air France flight attendant. "My son is 23, and he has no job. That is normal in France." &
Villepin's sputtering effort at reform underscores the dilemma facing many countries in Europe that have lush jobs protections and social safety nets under threat by competition from fast-rising Asian economies with cheaper labor and fewer workplace protections.]

AH, the joys of communism and the welfare it produces in lost jobs and immorality amongst the weak and dying western nations chasing after the lies of the one world socialist order ruled by a small group of violent people.
This is America's future being created the the foolish left and right wing politicians who have abandoned Christianity and morality for atheistic communism.

[Frank T]

[jwalburg]

"France's cherished workplace protections" are killing France. And who is going to pay any attention to this? People pour into Paris's streets like clockwork about every two weeks. Observers will just think it is another anti-American protest and go on their way.

[IrishRainy]

I'm sorry, but are the French TOTAL idiots? I mean, can't they see how they HAVE to do this in order for things to get better?

The guy who said he's there for his son who's 23 and unemployed and that's the way it is in France...can he NOT see that IF this plan is allowed to unfold, his son would pry HAVE a job...which would be an improvement. And if he behaved, he would pry STILL have that job in 2 years. Do nothing, however, and he will continue to have NO job!

Incroyable!

[Dark Skies]

One solution might be to set up enterprise zones wherein socialist and union rules do not apply. This would permit the government to appease the unions and students every else (which is what they will do eventually anyway) and still have incubators for "free market" experiments (which will perform as all free markets perform). Structure the free enterprise zones so as to encourage entrepreneurial behavior (i.e. use the incubator models used by universities like Georgia Tech).