razorwolfe: QFT

[digitaldiscipline]

To the ignorant French rioters and their supporters:

With unemployment around 14% in the developed areas -- soaring to 24% in some of the rural parts -- it's time to fucking face the fact that your glorious social model is bad and will always keep you down. Businesses, stuck squirming beneath elephantine regulations, will not hire more of you snobbish dumasses because Le Gross Frere (Big Brother in mangled Frog) makes it nigh impossible to get rid of you if you are really bad at your job. Making it easier to get rid of dross and keep the good will create more job opportunities for all. Does anyone actually teach economics in France?

Oh, and shoot all your Union leaders. Time to move on into the 21st century there, you sour-wine drinking sots.

[now with added veracity: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060410/wl_nm/france_dc_8]

Rafe here: Atlas Shrugged is finally paying off with salient commentary, as this CPE is the first step towards "Directive 10-289," which Rand invented as a way of saying "Everybody has to maintain the status quo in terms of productivity and consumption so things don't get any worse."

Comments

[gooddamon.livejournal.com]

They should switch to the glorious Canadian social model. Far less unemployment, better (and free) health care.

[kungfugimp.livejournal.com]

...nothing is free. That still gets sucked from the people in the form of taxes.

[gooddamon.livejournal.com]

True, true. But I'd still rather have healthcare costs paid through taxes than through private (and highly unethical) insurance companies. Both are bureaucratic - but only one is a bureaucracy that requires a profit.

[razerwolfe.livejournal.com]

LOL The French are now surrendering to themselves!

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Funny, that description matches the US economy...elephantine regulations, impossible to get rid of a lot of people, etc.

The bigger problem is that the few people that do work have to support everyone else. Just like at home.