JayB Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 "It means that when I do get a job I will basically have to work as hard as I can to keep it. If I make any mistakes I could be fired immediately. This will affect me severely, so I have taken to the streets. " To the Barricades, mes amis!!!! BBC News I suppose this shouldn't come as much of a surprise when coming from a country where people believe that mandating a 35 hour workweek will actually reduce unemployment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra_Commander Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 The depth of knowledge and breadth of topic from this renaissance man. He knows what's good for the french better than the french themselves. In summary, is there any question JayB is a superstar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Arbeit Macht Frei - knew they were wise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Silly frogs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choada_Boy Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 I hope they don't tear down the trees they planted along the Champs-elysees so that the Germans could march in the shade!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Silly frogs at least they don't go rogering range rovers in red lace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 It's easier for the French to see what they are giving up than what they will gain. They will gain because it will become MUCH easier to get a job. They will gain because productivity will go WAY UP along with the economy and ultimately wages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 The depth of knowledge and breadth of topic from this renaissance man. He knows what's good for the french better than the french themselves. In summary, is there any question JayB is a superstar? It's pretty clear that what's ailing the French economy is the dearth of regulations that employers have to abide by. They've been pretty consistent in saying that if you increase the cost, regulatory burden, and risk associated with bringing on more employees by making it tougher for us to get rid of non-performers - we'll go on a huge-ass hiring binge, especially young people who have no experience. Couple that with laws that raise the price of unskilled labor above the amount of revenue that employers can generate with the said labor so they loose money every minute the folks in that skill bracket are working for them and you've got a surefire way to tackle the massive unemployment problem facing French youth - currently 20% across the board and way higher amongst the types responsible for last years giant Car-B-Que. Smart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 The depth of knowledge and breadth of topic from this renaissance man. He knows what's good for the french better than the french themselves. In summary, is there any question JayB is a superstar? It's pretty clear that what's ailing the French economy is the dearth of regulations that employers have to abide by. They've been pretty consistent in saying that if you increase the cost, regulatory burden, and risk associated with bringing on more employees by making it tougher for us to get rid of non-performers - we'll go on a huge-ass hiring binge, especially young people who have no experience. Couple that with laws that raise the price of unskilled labor above the amount of revenue that employers can generate with the said labor so they loose money every minute the folks in that skill bracket are working for them and you've got a surefire way to tackle the massive unemployment problem facing French youth - currently 20% across the board and way higher amongst the types responsible for last years giant Car-B-Que. Smart. Good show Mr. Greenspan! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny_Tuff Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Good show Mr. Greenspan! Fuck that. I'd hang with any of those croissant-munchers over that wanker any day. Work is a necessary evil, and the less work is necessary, the better. JayB, you go back to dutifully fellating your employer as a gesture of your thanks for the high privilege of occupying one of said person's fine cubicles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knotzen Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 JayB, you go back to dutifully fellating your employer as a gesture of your thanks for the high privilege of occupying one of said person's fine cubicles. Hey, I resemble that remark! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 BTW, I'm hiring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knotzen Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 BTW, I'm hiring. OMFG, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mos_Chillin Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 BTW, I'm hiring. I am not putting on that lycra and hanging out at SeaTac EVER again for you. Find some other shill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knotzen Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 BTW, I'm hiring. I am not putting on that lycra and hanging out at SeaTac EVER again for you. Find some other shill. Ooh, this I'd *like* to see. Woo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 BTW, I'm hiring. I am not putting on that lycra and hanging out at SeaTac EVER again for you. Find some other shill. Ooh, this I'd *like* to see. Woo! Coming soon at a YMCA near you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 Good show Mr. Greenspan! Fuck that. I'd hang with any of those croissant-munchers over that wanker any day. Work is a necessary evil, and the less work is necessary, the better. JayB, you go back to dutifully fellating your employer as a gesture of your thanks for the high privilege of occupying one of said person's fine cubicles. I actually work in basic research, and I've been spending the past few months developing a fast, cheap way to identify compounds that disrupt a hitherto unexploited weakness in the HIV lifecycle. I suspect that you've logged a hell of a lot more time inside the cube than I have. Hopefully listening to punk music and sipping organic, fair-trade coffee from the Che' mug soothes the pain somewhat. "Fight the power!!!!!" Less work is better if you can afford it, but the end result of the policies the folks are marching on behalf of is no work. Give that one a try and see how it goes. You might have to downgrade to Folgers crystals after a couple of months!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willstrickland Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Jay, being the patriotastic fella I know you are, perhaps your time would be better spend figuring out a way to address the socioeconomic problems facing America, rather than some country you obviously loath for their socialistic tendencies. One might start by reigning in the drunken sailor spending, pork chasing, GOP congressional caucus. I don't really give a flying fuck if the French are having problems when right here at home we have an enormous credit bubble, the manufacturing base and infrastructure is eroding, housing affordability is at extreme low levels, the savings rate is negative, debt service as a percent of disposable income is at extreme readings, true inflation is running upwards of 6%, the employment/workforce ratio is saying that official govt "unemployment" figures are understating by about 3%, China and Japan are the only thing standing between us and a dollar crash, and the bloated budgets combined with irresponsible tax cuts lead us to unsustainable, extreme current account deficits upwards of 6% GDP. And you have time to worry about the cheese eating surrender monkeys? You must be a trust funder or a CEO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 Higher interest rates should take care of 2/3 of those problems. Other than that, I'd eliminate all subsidies and tarriffs, scrap the minimum wage, eliminate the tax deduction for employer sponsored health care and transfer the deduction to individuals for HSA contributions, reduce the capital gains tax to zero, phase out the mortgage interest deduction, raise the maxiumum contributions for Roths and 401(K)'s, eliminate all legislation that forces governments to pay inflated union rates for work that the taxpayers foot the bill for, make every state a right-to-work state, outlaw unions for public employees, and get the line-item veto going for appropriations bills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mos_Chillin Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 BTW, I'm hiring. I am not putting on that lycra and hanging out at SeaTac EVER again for you. Find some other shill. Ooh, this I'd *like* to see. Woo! Coming soon at a YMCA near you. More bounce to the ounce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willstrickland Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 (edited) Jay, of all the items you list, only one addresses deficits, eliminating the mortgage deduction. Meanwhile, you reduce tax revenues even more by ditching the cap gains tax, raising IRA limits, and ending tariffs. A line item veto does nothing, it is a tool, not a policy. Any of the pork barrel earmarks bullshit could have been cut at anytime by Delay, Hastert, or Frist. Bush could have, and should have vetoed the appropriations bill until they sent him one without pork. Over and over and over until they "got it". But that requires ethical standards. The question is: would you raise taxes or cut spending, and if you're cutting spending what would you cut? We hear all this blustering from the radical right "I'd end funding for the NEA"...well, OK fine, that's a few hundred million, which we spend in the GWOT fiasco every hour of every day. What else? So, your solution is to fuck the middle class and the poor, while giving the wealthy elite even more concessions and doing nothing at all to address the deficits. And please, no supply side bs. You seem to live in this fantasy world where there is a meritocracy. I see nothing but cronyism and systematic looting of the public coffers by those wielding the levers of political power. But at least those dirty fuckin' spics and nigrahs won't make $7/hr anymore while working a harder day than you've ever experienced in your pampered life. Edited to say: I'll give ya the elimination of subsidies as addressing the deficit too, and with that you still got a lot of cuttin' to do. Where should we start? And I'm not real fond of unions within the public sector either so I'm with ya there, but not to the rabid "all unions are evil" degree of the radical right you embrace. Edited March 23, 2006 by willstrickland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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G-spotter Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 those damn french eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raindawg Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Arbeit Macht Frei - knew they were wise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 raindawg passively agressively sprayed what's amatter, cats got your real identity? Can't spray under your real name in womens underwear? Work will set you free. Keep believing the bullshit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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