Dennis Prager on the recent protests in France:
It is all about a new law in France that allows a company to fire a person under the age of 26, without cause, within two years of being hired.
Wow. Imagine that. You might get fired from your first job.
As it happens, the whole point of the law was to encourage companies to hire young people. The unemployment rate among young people in France is 23 percent. And in many suburbs, it is double that. Meanwhile, French companies are understandably loath to hire 22-year-olds when they cannot fire them except "for cause," which under union rules means something like committing mass murder in the workplace.
But his next line really gets the article started:
What these massive demonstrations reveal is the narcissism, laziness and irresponsibility inculcated by socialist societies.
Is it any wonder why I revere this man so highly?
Read the rest of his article here.
Posted by Portia at March 21, 2006 09:36 AM | TrackBack
