Urethra Franklin said:
But it has, because far from sodomising business, it promotes ethical practice. The result is that rather than the obscene extremes of wealth and poverty you have in the US, people here don't need to fear getting sick, old, disabled or unemployed, because unlike those poor sods we all saw after Katrina, poverty here means you still have your public housing, universal health coverage and minimum income. It's exactly this social security that people are fighting to protect against the policies of this conservative government. The only resaon you find it hard to see Chirac as a con is because you come from such a one sided society that anybody to the left of Genghis Khan is perceived as a pinko commie.
1) Since when is ethics the opposite of sodomizing the economy? Since when is this about ethics? Is it "unethical" to expect someone to raise a finger for their own station in life? What you consider "ethical" policies are precisely the sort of obscenely expensive, cushy, undeserved, class warfare, left-wing policies that ARE sodomizing France's economy.
2) People ARE in fear of losing their jobs and growing old. The fact that it takes an average of 5 years for college grads to find a job in France is what prompted such "drastic" measures as letting companies cut incompetent/unneeded employees with less red tape.
3) Your post translates as: If a company can no longer afford to employ someone, it should still be damn near impossible to fire them (this is the policy they are trying to change), and the company should just have to leave or go out of business-which costs far more jobs.
This is economically idiotic and it is one of the many liberal policies causing France to be so screwed for jobs.
4) The fact that Chirac is a "conservative" and is the only one pushing for such a common sense pro-jobs policy speaks for itself. I would expect liberals to be smearing him-he is creating jobs.
5) Guess what? Those who have made it owe you and your family nothing. Companies don't have any obligations to you. They are in it for themselves and if you make yourself useful to them, they may purchase your services. But you are not entitled to crap. Socialism is based on petty, weak jealousy of the successful. Europe needs to stop acting like all wealth is just temporarily in the hands of those who actually do something for it-until it gets re-distributed back to its rightful owners who do nothing to earn or deserve it.
Just because someone is poor doesn't mean society is responsible for it. I grew up poor, and I have never once met a poor person who didn't make decisions repeatedly that put them in their poverty. We have safety nets for those who were just horribly unlucky, but most people make bad choices to get poor, and YOUR culture caters to their irresponsibility and encourages it at the expense of a functional economy.