Sunday, March 19, 2006


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LIBERTE
EGALITE
JOB SECURITE
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Our news people have become so profoundly lazy and incompetent, that there's really no way for anyone to understand what the French riots are all about.

I traveled through countless blogs and message boards worldwide, to be able to maybe get some insight into what's been happening overthere, and this is what I heard:

a) France's unemployment rate for people aged 18 to 27, is 25% to 50%.

b) No worker of any age, can be fired (without a court order) from any job, no matter how incompetent their performance.

c) Because they can't fire anyone, employers are perceived as refusing to hire African or Arab immigrants, who therefore exist on welfare and like to riot and burn cars.

c) Villepin tried to change this picture by removing the job-security laws for 18 to 27 year-olds, in the hope that the welfare-group would then get hired.

d) Because no one can get fired and the French workweek is 35 hours and all of its workers get an annual, 6-week paid vacation
-- all of which is a really good deal --
France's 18 to 27 year-olds are rioting to prevent these proposed changes from becoming law.

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