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France awaits Chirac surrender verdict on jobs law
2006-03-31
France is keenly awaiting a presidential address tonight in which Jacques Chirac is expected to give his verdict on the highly contentious youth employment law. The country has been hit by a wave of protests and strikes over the measure. Yesterday France's highest constitutional body backed the law, passing it to Chirac to either sign or reject.

Polls show most people oppose it; there is little appetite for more disruption. In the streets of Paris some gave their views: "I think in the current context we should just give in try to calm minds," said one man. "We should work with real, concrete facts."

A woman said: "I don't think it's the head of state who deals with what's happening now. Whatever he says will change nothing."

Opposition leaders have joined unions in calling for Chirac to intervene, with Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin insisting he will not withdraw the legislation.

Socialist leader Francoise Hollande said France was gripped by a social and political crisis. "We have to get out of it and the only way is for the President to announce that he won't pass the law and will open a debate in parliament," he said. Another Socialist leader said: "We don't want to find ourselves back in the 19th century trying to deal with the 21st."
"We'd rather do what we've been doing, stuck firmly in the middle of the 20th century. Eventually what we're doing is going to work. All we have to do is keep doing it over and over again."
Posted by:Fred

#3  "We don't want to find ourselves back in the 19th century trying to deal with the 21st" - thats what Socialism inevitably results in, Chirac, its called REGRESSION, espec when Socialists already know there isn't enough $$$ in all the world and heaven to keep all the promises and obligations made in the name of power. IT also doesn't help to tell economy- and societally-dependent/
competitive males Government, the Welfare-Nanny State, women, children, elderly and Institutions, etc. don't need them for anything - its isn't Men's fault Socialists and aligned can't, don't, or won't understand the merits/premises of their own -Ism(s). Secularists arguing that God, Religion, and Christ, etal. is fake, so there's the future exploding Moon, the Asteroid(s), the Sun, Risng Seas. Solar Flares-Sunspots, and melting Ice caps, etal. to come - IFF MAN AND GOVERNMENT(S) BE GOD, GIVE TO CAESAR WHO IS ALSO GOD, GO STOP IT. SECULARISM > SCIENCE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK BACK TO YOU OR ANYONE, LET ALONE CONVERSE, PROPHECY, OR BE SENTIENT ACROSS TIME AND SPACE. GO SAVE THE SUN, MOON, and SEA, GO SAVE LIFE ITSELF!? "Let Justice be done, or the Heavens fall", so says Kevin Costner as in Oliver Stone's flick JFK back in the 60's - iff the Heavens fall, Justice was NOT done, the Truth(s) were NOT or NEVER told, correct!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-03-31 23:32  

#2  How to break up a bureaucracy: hire one civil servant, and order them to fire two.
Posted by: Listen to Dogs   2006-03-31 16:49  

#1  Chirac will sign for the reasons some say he will cave. By not signing there will be a prolonged and undertermined period of protest while debate resumes.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2006-03-31 12:32  

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