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Originally posted by Ted Striker
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Even better, Korean Transsexual Britney
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"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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(Ooops)"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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The solution to students striking is simple. Make them still pay fees but don't give them a penny of financial aid while on strike. End of stupid student strikes.
Just bring on the tanks if commies are trying to pull a fast one...Ask deGaulle how stupid these strikes can be.
Yes, but I wouldn't blame that on Chirac, just like I don't blame the destructive widespread cocaine use and glorification of pornography in US in the late 1970s on Carter.There is a strong social malaise in France since Chirac's re-election
Edit: to clarify: IMO it's the selfish French people who are to blame, refusing to budge even towards minor reforms, constantly striking and taking somesort of bizarre pleasure from only making their own problems worse (you seem to be happy because French economy will suffer because of the strike -- I think that's a very odd attitude, it's your nation, you live in it, it's you who'll suffer from it).
Why Paris, why not Helsinki?No! No! No! I'm going to Paris two weeks from now!
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the police estimate 500,000 people are on strike, AFP (Agence France Presse) says over 1 million (150,000 in paris)
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15% of the postal service
24% of France Telecom
40% of transportation workers
are on strike
according to paris metro, 15 metro lines are running understaffed, 8 of which are severly understaffed, massive traffic jams in and out of paris
the unions are pretty strong eh?"Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito MussoliniComment
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No, not really. Something like 10% or 15% of the total work force is unionized and these are all government jobs which only stay unionized because politicians are afraid to stand up to them. The reality is the unions are weak.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Originally posted by Saras
15 years of LITHUANIAN INDEPENDENCE
14 years, actually. It's not 2006 yet, silly.Blog | Civ2 Scenario League | leo.petr at gmail.comComment
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nah, the number of unionized people in france is around 7%."Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito MussoliniComment
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yeah but if the number of strikers are overrepresented in certain sectors (postal, train, metro, RER) they have disrupted these things by more then 7%. that makes them strong. the nationwide TGV out of Paris is running on average at 50%, with some stations (Paris-Montparnasse) running at 30%. if 7% of the population can shut down 50% of the nations trains, heavily used trains that people depend on to get around, they are strong."Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito MussoliniComment
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This message comes from someone who'll take the train in a few hours.
Yeah, you are a Commie
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It'd be nice to see the government break the stikers (by not giving in, not by pummeling them), but the French have no balls to do that.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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We messed up the economy of Paris for a whole month in 1995.
Without I wouldn't have won a grand trip to Finland.
It was a b*tch to get there though.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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and thats what everyones doing. so you have 10 million parisiens all in their peugots trying to drive to work when normally the vast majority of them take the RER/ metro. in paris' small streets, that means huge cluster****s and disruptions.So, use a car."Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito MussoliniComment
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Strikes:
This is about Chirac f*cking with the 35hr week I presume?
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No... that already went through.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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