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French Student RiotsStudent riots in Paris remind us that education at elite academic institutions is not enough to teach either higher morals or basic economics. Not on their side of the Atlantic or on ours.
Why are students at the Sorbonne and other distinguished institutions out trashing the streets and attacking the police?
Because they want privileges in the name of rights, and are too ignorant of economics to realize that those privileges cost them jobs.
Like some other European Union countries, France has laws making it hard to fire anybody. The political left has long believed that such laws are a way of reducing unemployment.
More important, they have long remained oblivious to the fact that countries with such laws, such as France and Germany, usually have higher unemployment rates than countries without such laws, such as the United States.
Belatedly, some French officials have begun to see that job security laws make it more risky and costly for an employer to hire inexperienced workers with no track record, whom they would have a hard time getting rid of if they don't work out. The unemployment rate in France is 23 percent for workers who are 25 years old and younger.
To try to deal with this high unemployment rate among young workers, the job security laws have recently been modified to make it easier for employers to fire those workers who are on their first job.
That is what has French students outraged and rampaging through the streets of Paris. They don't want employers to be able to fire them after they graduate and go to work.
The fact that many students can think only in terms of "rights," but not in terms of consequences, shows a major deficiency in their education. The right to a job is obviously not the same thing as a job. Otherwise there would not be a 23 percent unemployment rate among young French workers.
The law can create equal rights for inexperienced young workers and for older workers with a proven track record but the law cannot make them equally productive on the job or equally risky to hire. Nor is rioting likely to make employers any more likely to want young workers working for them.
It is elementary economics that adding to the costs, including risks, of hiring workers tends to reduce the number of workers hired. It should not be news to anyone, whether or not they have gone to a university, that raising costs usually results in fewer transactions.
The fact that such profound ignorance of basic economics and such self-indulgent emotionalism should be prevalent at elite institutions of higher education is one of the many deep-seated failures of universities on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Holy crap, now the frogs will acctually have to work!
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no, they will threaten to nuke their own country
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like we should nuke mexico
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I'd rather be unemployed in France than flipping burgers in the USA. The pay is better.
Viva La France!
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The teachers in France REALLY ought to give those students MORE homework.......then they would not have time to riot. 
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I'd rather be unemployed in France than flipping burgers in the USA. The pay is better.
Viva La France!
I would rather work than be unemployed, but then again, I'm not lazy.
As far as standard of living goes, I'd rather be poor in America than middle class in France.
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I'd rather be unemployed in France than flipping burgers in the USA. The pay is better.
Viva La France!
So you wouldn't, theoretically, have a problem with living off other people's money while sitting on your lazy ass and whining about how much your government sucks?
 Astounding!
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I'd rather be unemployed in France than flipping burgers in the USA. The pay is better.
Viva La France!
So you wouldn't, theoretically, have a problem with living off other people's money while sitting on your lazy ass and whining about how much your government sucks?
Astounding!
Works for me, Sammitch!
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I'd rather be unemployed in France than flipping burgers in the USA. The pay is better.
Viva La France!
So you wouldn't, theoretically, have a problem with living off other people's money while sitting on your lazy ass and whining about how much your government sucks?
Astounding!
Works for me, Sammitch!
Liberalism personified. Thank you.
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I'd rather be unemployed in France than flipping burgers in the USA. The pay is better.
Viva La France!
So you wouldn't, theoretically, have a problem with living off other people's money while sitting on your lazy ass and whining about how much your government sucks?
Astounding!
Works for me, Sammitch!
Liberalism personified. Thank you.
I guess my work ethic leaves a bit to be desired. Give me a choice between wearing a stupid uniform and a pimply face or sitting in a cafe sipping wine and fucking truly outstanding women while making more on the dole... Well guys, you can flip burgers if you prefer. 
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Yea, well I won't be flipping burgers, because thanks to my work ethic has put me in the position to fire people like you... Oh and it takes more than a welfare check to get the oppertunity to fuck truly outstanding women.... Just ask Rex.
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Yea, well I won't be flipping burgers, because thanks to my work ethic has put me in the position to fire people like you... Oh and it takes more than a welfare check to get the oppertunity to fuck truly outstanding women.... Just ask Rex.
I'll remember that a the next sex party I go to! I want to thank you personally, WBAM, for your support. I'll think of you while I'm buying condom party favours with my welfare check, er your money!
'where you going with that UB40 in your hand' 
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I'd rather be unemployed in France than flipping burgers in the USA. The pay is better.
Viva La France!
So you wouldn't, theoretically, have a problem with living off other people's money while sitting on your lazy ass and whining about how much your government sucks?
Astounding!
Works for me, Sammitch!
Liberalism personified. Thank you.
Your opinion WBAM. I work a long hard day & like it. Anybody is better off earning their own money & being in charge of their own destiny. I'm still a liberal though because I reallize that sometimes some people need help. My guess is MagicJay qualifies for any program that he receives benefits from. I got the impression from past post's that MagicJay's options are somewhat limited. Sorry in advance Magic if I'm recalling wrong.
Fair play!
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Your opinion WBAM. I work a long hard day & like it. Anybody is better off earning their own money & being in charge of their own destiny. I'm still a liberal though because I reallize that sometimes some people need help. My guess is MagicJay qualifies for any program that he receives benefits from. I got the impression from past post's that MagicJay's options are somewhat limited. Sorry in advance Magic if I'm recalling wrong.
Thanks, MEM. You know I just like to get a rise out of WBAM. He rarely disappoints me. Truth is I worked hard all my life until I became ill. I recently went back to work part time at a mental health clinic run by the City. It's exhausting for me but I take great satisfaction in knowing that I help make San Francisco a little bit nicer place to live.
In my former life I was no stranger to 60 hour work weeks and living in airport transit lounges. I do believe in a more generous safety net and I don't mind paying taxes. I could do without a new SUV if it meant no more homeless on the street.
The only benefits I receive are Social Security and Medicare which I paid into for over 30 years.
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It's funny what you consider getting a rise out of me. If you consider me getting a chuckle at your expense as getting a rise out of me then pat yourself on the back for a job well done.
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