Posted on 04/11/2006 12:51:46 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
PARIS - Students and unions staged new protests Tuesday across France, hoping to ride the momentum that led President Jacques Chirac to scrap a youth labor law and force the government to pull other contested reforms.
Chirac's retreat and school vacations that began this week were expected to deplete turnout from massive recent protests and university sit-ins that prompted him to abandon the "youth jobs contract" on Monday.
Hundreds of students marched in northeastern Paris — far fewer than the 84,000 who turned out in the capital for protests that drew 1 million demonstrators nationwide on April 4.
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Friggin college students run the country. I can't imagine much worse.
The inmates are definitely in control of the asylum.
Once they get into a habit, it's hard to break.
susie
They just won't take yes for an answer...
bump
"French students walk near a sign which reads, 'Villepin, We Got You and Sarkozy, We'll Get You'"
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Is it just me, or does that not even make sense?
Qwinn
Maybe college professors running the system?
How does that old saying go? Give an inch...
Oh, never mind, I understand it now. The odd grammar confused me a bit. I read it as, Villepin, WE GOT YOU AND SARKOZY, We'll Get You", hehe.
Qwinn
Vive le mediocrite! Vive le merde socialiste! We will have jobs for live building Citroens then burning them so we can build more!
Hey the French are desperate to excell at something on a global scale. At least the students see that they have a real mark to make--- not in scholarship of course but rather as professional protesters.
I guess they are not used to victory. They don't know what to do now.
seems the French will never learn..don't appease terrorists and don't appease students..of course, it's difficult to tell who's who there..
As I understand it, this law, now retracted, was put in place to literally save their economy. HEY IDIOTS...there won't be any jobs when the economy is in the toilet. Usually, it's about this time, I'd start making fun of France. But given what's going on in our Country, I don't think I should be throwing stones.
"But given what's going on in our Country, I don't think I should be throwing stones."
The French kids protested for a month on this deal before the government caved. I doubt our weasley politicians will last that long. Taking surrender lessons from the French, we are.
France is already finished. We are watching the final collapse play out before our eyes. France's crisis of viability as an economic entity is much more urgent than what GM is facing right now.
Between the immigrants, the students, the unions, and the metastasizing continued riots France has no way out.
The question becomes, what will happen when the government of France is forced to recognize its complete insolvency, which it will inevitably have to do within a year or so at most.
What will be the impact on the world economy, when a bedrock European government finally goes catastrophically broke?
Interesting times, indeed.
You know, you'd think we would watch these people and learn a thing or two from them.
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