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> Fearing More Unrest, French Leader Weighs Weakening Law

3 April 2006, 17:08

The idea that the French ’rigid welfare’ system produces ’high unemployment’ is outright propaganda. In Britian, which has become a bosses paradise, with flexible, dehumaised labour and attacks on civil liberties, the real rate of unemployment is much higher, and 47% of workers have wages which on their own are insufficient to avoid poverty. Our corporate sponsored government counts as employed anyone working more than a couple of hours a week for poverty pay.

According to the UK’s own labour force survey the number of people in poverty has increased from 22%, compared to 13% in 1979, and the bottom 10% of jobs pay less now than they did in 1970. For the majority of Britain’s population ’market reforms’ have produced nothing but misery.

The French people should fight back, and fight back hard, before the same Thatcherite policies are imposed on them by a handful of free market ideologues. Lets cut back on the real drain on resources - corporate welfare and military spending.