Living in France, all I can say is bien sur.

I'm glad to say that, despite normally living in France, I managed to spend the day some 3 million feet away from France and therefore can laugh at (and blog about) the striking "workers" from a safe distance

One of my college history professors once said that France was "the most revolting country," meaning of course that France has a history of revolutions but he also personally found the French to be revolting.

The French Striking? Must be Wednesday.

Sad, all those Frenchies, having to stink at home, instead of being able to stink at work. Tragic.

One striker who was interviewed on the BBC World News said he thought that the government should raise wages and that would drive the economy up and out of the dumps.

It's hard to believe they're that clueless, but it appears that they really are.

Do they not teach economics in France?

Ever heard of a French economist?

Isn't this an oxymoron?

Obviously it the evil Chimpy McHitlerburton's neocon cabal that is keeping the French down.

I use this poster for all things French these days. Especially after HP annouced a big layoff (disclosure: HP and I parted company 14 months ago) in France.
http://www.despair.com/effort.html

Bastiat - a smart guy.

Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) is a French economist and politician, wrongfully ignored in France, though recognized as being an author of foremost importance in many other countries (in the United States in particular).

To know some more about him, I invite you to read his works, some of which is available online (see below). Other web pages listed below have biographical information in English, including the great ones hosted by The Library of Economics and Liberty, by Subir Grewal or by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. If you can read French, you can see the according french-speaking section of this site.

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He said something along the lines of the rich spend their time and money making sure you don't get yours.

Best definition of 'rich' I ever heard was "Someone who makes $10,000 more than you do"

And when the rich are spending money, that money circulates in the economy creating jobs for the rest. Or maybe you think that 'spent money' vanishes mysteriously into another rich guy's pocket without first being circulated in stores and malls and dealerships and other retail establishments? Sounds like socialist jealousy to me.......

Also contemporaneous with this strike is the Corsican ferry strike and the dockworker strike at Marseilles. The SNCM ferry was hijacked by union members and had to be retaken by SOF and diverted to Toulon; Corsican tourist revenue (this was the season and people ran away in droves fearing holiday violence) has plummeted. The Marseilles port is stymied; the companies bringing in vegetables, for instance, have CONEX boxes of rotting garbage now.

Don't know why the crane operators are striking but the ferry union's striking because of a privatization proposal--the gov't ferry system lost e25 million last year, while the commercial ferry, using Italian workers, made money.

Now I know why Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers.