Bowing to pressure from students and unions, French President Jacques Chirac on Monday unveiled plans to scrap a controversial youth-labor contract that spawned weeks of strikes and led to a complete political stalemate.Jonah Goldberg says “France is doomed”: “It's difficult to draw any other conclusions. If they can't make it possible to fire 25 year-old, nose-picking malcontents and slackers from l'Blockbuster -- in order to give some hope to unemployed car-burning nihilist mobs in the outer suburbs, mind you -- they can't do anything.” France, and much of Europe, desperately needs to stimulate economic growth before the weight of their aging population shatters their social contract.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Today’s least surprising headline: France surrenders
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The VP wrote:
France, and much of Europe, desperately needs to stimulate economic growth before the weight of their aging population shatters their social contract.
No worries, mon ami. The aging population -- they are left in gay Paris in the sweltering summer, as tout le monde head for the Riviera in August. Aging population problem solved.
/Robbie
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