Again the French are on the streets, with more than a million people protesting today. The protests were started by the students, who are against the CPE, a new labor law that would allow employers to give for first jobs a trial period extended to two years.

Now the protesters are right in that being in trial period in France sucks. Banks normally don’t want to give you loans and it’s more difficult to rent an apartment. But with the high unemployment rate that France has, isn’t more flexibility something worth trying? But most French expect to get everything from the state. Consider that the job most young people dream of getting in France is state employee! This is very sad from students, who should have got some education and now better the realities of economy. Haven’t they learned in history classes that communism failed?

What annoys me very much too is how the protests describe employers, as if they were people who wake every morning only thinking at how they are going to fire more people! There is going to be a few bad apples, but come on, most employers are not going to fire the people just before the end of their trial period.

I seriously don’t know where this country is going. The state has no money anymore, and it’s completely impossible to make any reforms. What is left?

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