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COVID-19: France calls unemployed to work in fields as borders stay closed
euractiv.com ^
| Mar 25, 2020
| By Cécile Barbière | EURACTIV.fr
Posted on 03/31/2020 4:42:24 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The French government has called on employees who are on temporary lay-offs to make themselves available to help farmers with seasonal harvests. But such ‘agricultural patriotism’ does not go well with the tightening of containment measures. EURACTIV France reports.
“Our farmers are running out of ‘helping hands’, help them”. This was the appeal launched by Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume to news channels BFM and RMC. It took many French people by surprise because the containment measures that had been in place for over a week in France were tightened further on Monday (23 March).
I want to launch a great appeal […] to the women and men who today do not work, a great appeal to those who are confined […] to those who no longer have a job, I tell them to join the great army of French agriculture, join those who will allow us to feed ourselves in a clean, healthy way,” Guillaume said...
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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Wow - imagine Trump doing this in the states ...
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:42:24 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:43:09 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:43:46 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Democratus Partitus Delendus Est)
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:43:53 PM PDT
by
GoDuke
To: 11th_VA
YES!
Even the French can stumble upon common sense win/win.
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:48:52 PM PDT
by
Drango
(1776 = 2020)
To: 11th_VA
Who is going to produce the food if the farmers decided to stay indoors like everyone else?
If thee people want to eat, they had better help out.
To: 11th_VA
end the H2B visa program now....
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:50:36 PM PDT
by
sheehan
(DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
To: 11th_VA
This is what should’ve happened a long time ago here. Work requirements for welfare. I don’t care if you volunteer and your job pays nothing. You have to do something for those 8 hours a day if you want government assistance. If you have to stay at home with the kids, then you can stuff envelopes all day to send out free copies of the Constitution to Americans.
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:51:34 PM PDT
by
JediJones
(We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
To: 11th_VA
I heard someone say that he expected us to have harvest problems this fall and as a consequence we’d have food shortages this winter.
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:53:31 PM PDT
by
blam
To: JediJones
This is what should’ve happened a long time ago here. Work requirements for welfare. I don’t care if you volunteer and your job pays nothing. You have to do something for those 8 hours a day if you want government assistance. If you have to stay at home with the kids, then you can stuff envelopes all day to send out free copies of the Constitution to Americans.***
Amen to that.
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:54:08 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: 11th_VA
Ah the hypocrisy...
1. stay home, don’t congregate.
2. Go work in the fields, congregate !
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:56:46 PM PDT
by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap)
To: 11th_VA
“Back to the Land!”
— peasants!
But also, a good thing. Depends on your viewpoint.
To: 11th_VA
hmmm. The field workers are not working so they are asking those not working to become field workers ...
To: Pearls Before Swine
Did they have daily readings from Chairman Macron?!
To: SmokingJoe
Times like these you really realize the jobs that really matter.
Somehow athletes and actors don’t seem to matter all that much anymore.
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posted on
03/31/2020 5:05:16 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Regulator
“Down here in the fields...
We fight for our meals...”
—The Who
To: dfwgator
Neither athletes or actors ever meant much to me.
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posted on
03/31/2020 5:07:09 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Spend like you were going to the electric chair!)
To: 11th_VA
Those who don’t work, don’t eat.
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posted on
03/31/2020 5:12:39 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
It’s a Chinese Wasteland...
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posted on
03/31/2020 5:16:49 PM PDT
by
Regulator
(Now I Have THAT Tune in My Brain All Day)
To: 11th_VA
I’m sure the muzzies will be first to volunteer./s
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posted on
03/31/2020 5:23:32 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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