2007-04-09 05:17:25 · 20 answers · asked by Imperial American 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Funny ha-ha or funny weird?
2007-04-09 05:20:25 · answer #1 · answered by rustyshackleford001 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
France's unemployment problems stems from employee protection regulations and red tape. Socialist models work quite well, just look at Scandanavia. Also those that are employed in France are full time permanent and not part-time.
Saying the French are lazy is incorrect. It is mainly the young generation that are unemployed even with univeristy degrees. They are frustrated and don't like being on welfare. There is much more of a sense wanting to be an active part of society in France than in many Anglo/Saxon countries.
And it is no way funny. I had a friend with a near perfect degree in engineering and it took him a year to find work.
2007-04-12 03:08:26 · answer #2 · answered by eorpach_agus_eireannach 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in case you do not understand how the financial equipment works then according to risk this is fairly not the communication you're able to be in. Unemployment is the final ingredient that's fastened. are not you against government involvement? do not you think of the "unfastened industry" could restoration issues? Then why are you blaming Obama for something? isn't this something that firms could be fixing? Or could Obama only create numerous million government jobs? take it sluggish to renowned the way the equipment works earlier laying blame on the incorrect human beings. Obama isn't responsible for unemployment. Bush wasn't the two. The president won't be able to snap his palms and create hundreds of thousands of jobs. McCain could have been in the comparable undertaking, in all probability quicker perhaps later, notwithstanding it could have been the comparable in the tip.
2016-10-28 06:29:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About as funny as the way the US massages its own unemployment figures so the number is lower than it actually is. If you take standard international measures (eg. ILO numbers) then France is about the same as the US, only a point and a bit higher.
ETA: To those that don't think the US massages it's unemployment figures, please, read up on standardised international measures. For example, the US does not count anyone unemployed longer than 90 days as "unemployed". They are taken out of the figures as "having left the job market". Nor do they count anyone that isn't receiving/applied for welfare benefits. The *actual* measure of US unemployment is much higher than the official figure. Don't get your panties in a twist over the fact. Most countries massage their UE figures. That's why I mentioned the ILO standardised figures: they are applied the same way in each country and give a truer comparative measure. The OP was engaging in a bit of mindless France-bashing so I returned the sentiment with some facts. I'm sorry if that upsets your parochial world view. :-)
2007-04-09 05:23:05 · answer #4 · answered by russ_in_mo 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They consistently have 2x to 2.5x our rate of unemployment and the reason is that they have higher minimum compensation standards and specific restrictions on firing. You hire someone, you're almost marrying them - so nobody wants to hire an inexperienced worker, particularly a foreigner, someone without references - so they DON'T, the result is widespread unemployment, and yet they stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that they're causing their own misery.
And the US does NOT "massage their own numbers" or have a "real" unemployment rate that is similar to France's. If you're available for work and looking for work, you're unemployed. Period. Doesn't have anything to do with benefits.
2007-04-09 05:41:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The really sickening thing about runaway socialism is that the lowlifes that riot and complain about there being no jobs just keep demanding more and more handouts from the productive segment of society, leading to more and more welfare and counter-productive entitlement programs...it's a hopelessly failed approach to economics that they will only wake up and correct once they are completley ruined, like the Soviet Union.
2007-04-09 05:30:57 · answer #6 · answered by Donald J 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They have a high unemployment rate because of the over-generous welfare system and ridiculously strict labor laws (making it nearly impossible to fire people).
Don't worry, our slide left as country will force us to confront these same problems in the future.
Edit: Russ-In-MO, what blog did you read that garbage from?
2007-04-09 05:31:00 · answer #7 · answered by Time to Shrug, Atlas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a few years it is going to be worse. Once they are under Sharia law, we'll have to go bail them out again like we did in WWII.
Except this time it is not an invading Hitler, it is an enemy from within that is taking over.
Stick a fork in them, because France is done.
2007-04-09 05:23:13 · answer #8 · answered by songndance1999 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, but much less funny is how libs want the USA to be just like France.
2007-04-09 05:29:22 · answer #9 · answered by Lavrenti Beria 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How is that funny? That it's a socialist economy and is barely surviving and the country is overloaded with Muslims destroying any of the proud history of France? It would sure be hilarious if it weren't so tragic.
2007-04-09 05:21:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋