Cowardly Chirac caves in to protesters.

[jimmoyer]

You know what else France don't got that America has?

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.

 

[aeon]

Re: Vetoed Legislation

À mon avis, si son excellence Jacques Chirac, le Président de la Républicue française, crois que la loi devrait être annulée, c'est son droit comme le chef d'état de la France de l'annuler; en fait, je suis d'accord avec lui. Si son excellence pourrait voir que beaucoup de ses citoyennes (probablement la majorité) s'opposer cette loi, c'était son choix.

Blackleaf[/i]]France's notoriously cowardly politcians have caved in to the demands of protesting, lazy French workers and students. They protested AGAINST a youth employment law that would have TACKLED France's high unemployment rate.

Even if this law was proven to have been a good (or even the best) strategy to combat issues such as a low employment rate among youth, sometimes the better ideas must be discarded because they are unpopular — such is, perhaps, one of the double-edged swords of democracy. In my opinion, the situation that has occurred in France is, in a way, an example to the people of other nations — whereas sometimes it seems as though matters of our legislators are beyond the reach of citizens once those legislators are elected or appointed, the French have proven that protests continue to give the people sway over their representatives.

:!: Revision : Corrected a typing error.

Je suis impressionner, tu ecrit mieux le francais que moi, felicitation!!!

 

[aeon]

France surrenders again who would have thought? :roll:

If french peoples would have had president bush as their president, bush would be dead today, french people are the kind of people who goes in the street when somehting bothers them, they dont stay sitting on their fat ass wathing baseball game or american idol. They exercise their right to protest, which is the basis of a democratic society.

 

[FiveParadox]

I agree with you, aeon; as I mentioned above, I think these protests, and the subsequent decision by President Chirac to terminate the legislative measures in question, prove that citizens can continue to hold sway with their elected representatives, even in-between elections — something that many, in both Canada and the United States of America, seem to have forgotten.

 

[Jay]

Since the right is clearly getting the shaft in Canada pehaps we should riot to get our way.

 

[Jo Canadian]

Funny toon, but personally the law they were protesting was pretty shitty. It's probably better to be thrown out.

 

[iamcanadian]

Re: RE: Cowardly Chirac caves in to protesters.

Since the right is clearly getting the shaft in Canada pehaps we should riot to get our way.

This is a reason Non-French Canadians are getting screwed more by our government than our French Canadian copatiates.