April 3, 2003
IS PARIS BURNING?:
Strike action in France over pension reform strangles rail and air traffic (Apr 3, 2003, AFP)Commuters across France faced massive headaches, with metro and train traffic severely disrupted because of a one-day strike over pension reforms, and hundreds of domestic and European flights cancelled as well.The broad-based strike by public sector workers was also due to affect schools and postal services. [...]
Public sector workers, who make up 25 percent of the work force, are keen to defend their privileges, which include a shorter contribution period in order to receive a full pension in comparison to their colleagues in the private domain.
Supporters of WWII and the Cold War are welcome to explain why we spent 50 years fighting to prevent the German and then the Russian forms of statism from dominating Europe so that the French form could instead? Posted by Orrin Judd at April 3, 2003 1:16 PM
Mr. Judd;
Because a French dominated state would be of no danger to us, unlike a German or even Russian empire.
Mr. Annoying:
If France's relationship with the Saddam Hussein regime is revealed in the weeks ahead, will we say that "a French dominated state would be of no danger to us"?
Mr. Coupal;
Iraq only became dangerous to us because of our own inaction. Had we taken care of things in 1991, France's relationship with Iraq would have been of no importance. Even now we can dispose of Saddam Hussein if we only summon the will to do so. And even this danger is far more because France is falling in to the orbit of the Caliphascists rather than the reverse.