France must reform its labour rules. The Unions must be tamed. The 35 hr week is
nonsense. And employers must be allowed to hire and fire - mobility of labour is
imperative. The only way economies can be rescued is by relaxing labour rules
and by encouraging employers and would be employers to take on more workers -
but the regulations must be permanent. If more people are in employment, social
security payments will be reduced, income taxes will rise, overall production
will rise and the voters will feel more content. Do not allow Unions to dictate
nor politicians who buy votes by promising more entitlements. Many people will
inevitably vote for freebies but politicians need to be responsible....The
35-hour limit to the working week, regardless of who you are and what you do
(except of course M. Hollande, who has much more important things to do and not
enough time to do them in...) stems from the stupid left-wing idea that there is
a finite amount of work to go around. It was introduced as a way of supposedly
reducing unemployment by sharing this work around. This naivety is shared by
lefties everywhere, and explains why health, education and other needs of
society must be shared out equally. Hence the leftie hostility to buying a
better education or private health care. In fact work creates work (ask any
successful self-employed person). Being creative, whether it be widgets,
services or arty-farty things generates the demand for further widgets, services
and art-farty things, and more jobs, for as many hours as people are willing to
work. The French have been unbelievably stupid in failing to see this, so it is
no surprise that they have shot themselves in the foot and their economy is
barely breathing. Mind you, this disease is not limited to the French; the UK
has a healthy dose too. The mind boggles at what this nation of ours could
achieve if government and the EU was not stifling enterprise with excessive
taxes, rules and regulations.
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