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Sammy wrote:
Wow, I thought social unrest was impossible under democratic
socialism?


Nah. It's just not moved to a designated "protest zone" where the high
rollin' elite and right wing political candidates don't have to see
it.

Don't forget what that old communist, Thomas Jefferson, preached.
Every
so often it is healthy for the people to rise up, take control of, and
reform the government. We may be seeing the beginnings of that process
in France, and that should make all the "We-hate-France-because-the

French-didn't-fall-for-the-WMD-propaganda-and-join-the-invasion-of-Iraq"
crowd extremely happy.


It worked really well when the Arabs burned down half of Europe in the
1600s... ****ing idiot!

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.


Actually Chuck may be right. France is an economic disaster. Almost
all
the public union strikes are over the government trying to add a couple
of
years more working time before the people retire. In something like
10-15
years, there will be only 2 workers for every retired worker. Think
that
will be sustainable? France just happens to be the worst, but lots of
European countries are in the same boat. Naples has a 37% unemployment.
Most likely the reason it is one of the most dangerous cities in Italy
(besides the taxi drivers).


Yep, France's economy is in the crapper and social spending is out of
control.

Actually it is to some degree.....economics plays a major role in
it.......and the fact that muslims tend to not assimilate into the culture
where they live means they end up religated to the lower end of the economic
scale.


But those facts are not factors of the riots. Otherwise the rioters would
not be made up only of young muslim men.