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2003-08-27 Europe

France May Scrap Holiday to Finance Care

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Posted by Steve 2003-08-27 12:47:43 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why not just outsource care of the elderly to the madrassah's?

Posted by mjh 2003-8-27 1:15:04 PM|| 2003-8-27 1:15:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Cancel Bastille day. France died long ago.

Posted by Yank 2003-8-27 1:17:14 PM|| 2003-8-27 1:17:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Today on Moaning Edition (tm) there was a report about how all Frogs get five weeks' vacation, and that the government has been paying up to about $1,000 per person who's too poor to afford travelling.

Paid vacations, from the government. What a country, huh?

Posted by growler 2003-8-27 2:17:24 PM|| 2003-8-27 2:17:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I've heard it said that the Tour de France cost 2% of the GNP

Posted by Shipman 2003-8-27 2:20:16 PM|| 2003-8-27 2:20:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "Secretary of State for Handicapped People"? Lehrer was right. Satire is dead.

Posted by Mitch H. 2003-8-27 2:33:08 PM|| 2003-8-27 2:33:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "The idea - radical in a country where leisure time is sacrosanct - provoked an immediate clash of opinions . . .

whereupon both sides immediately threw up their hands in surrender."

Posted by Tibor 2003-8-27 2:42:24 PM|| 2003-8-27 2:42:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Itâs the last memory of victory we have."

The last victory they had was in the Franco-Prussian war. We won the rest FOR them.

Posted by Charles 2003-8-27 2:45:49 PM|| 2003-8-27 2:45:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 After reading this article it is my opinion that France is dead, but it won't lie down.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-8-27 3:40:41 PM|| 2003-8-27 3:40:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The Franco-Prussian War??? Check your history books, please.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-8-27 8:45:52 PM|| 2003-8-27 8:45:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Ummm...France lost the Franco-Prussian War, Charles. I don't think Phrwance has actually won a major military action since Napoleon retreated from Russia.

Posted by Watcher 2003-8-27 9:03:14 PM|| 2003-8-27 9:03:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Doesn't it also strike anyone as interesting that France is so strapped for cash that they have to do this at all?

Obviously, the French have a very weak work ethic, but it's also obvious now how the lack of productivity and business development is destroying their economy.

Consider this too: when a company is failing they ask people to work fewer hours because they can't afford to pay them. When a country is failing they ask to people to work MORE hours so they can get more taxes...

Posted by R. McLeod 2003-8-28 3:25:19 AM|| 2003-8-28 3:25:19 AM|| Front Page Top

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