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To: sea_urchin who wrote (23169)	6/1/2005 4:49:10 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80963

Re: ...many wanted to show their dissatisfaction with high unemployment, government cost-cutting and other economic problems. "It's a condemnation of the government's economic policy. It (shows) anger about unemployment and anxiety about economic precariousness and lack of jobs," Unemployment?! Economic precariousness?! LOL... If so, why haven't the French scrapped their OWN Constitution in the first place?????? Euro-bashing French seem forgetful of the fact that "the right to get a job" has been a FRENCH constitutional right all along, that is, since 1946: au droit au travail ? En revanche, la question du droit au travail demeure toujours au stade du débat juridique et politique. Le droit au travail avait, il est vrai, été affirmé dans le préambule de la Constitution de la IIe République, en 1848. Certes, le préambule de la Constitution du 27 octobre 1946 dispose également que : « Chacun a le devoir de travailler et le droit d'obtenir un emploi ». Certains ont pu voir dans ce membre de phrase posant en principe le droit au travail, l'inspiration socialisante du préambule de 1946. Quoiqu'il en soit, la majorité des commentateurs a toujours considéré qu'une telle disposition ne pouvait être d'application directe, et, notamment, ne pouvait en aucun cas être invoquée telle quelle devant un juge. Le débat a repris une certaine vigueur à la fin des années 1970 et au début des années 1980, lorsque le taux de chômage a commencé à augmenter de manière inquiétante. [...] vie-publique.fr Well, as a matter of fact, the French constitution didn't prevent French joblessness from skyrocketting to 5+ million... Anyway, as I said on another thread, although the French plebs voted against the EU constitution out of economic anxieties, French elites and, first among them, President Chirac, could have easily bypassed and overcome a popular rejection of the EU constitution. All the President had to do was to proceed like the Germans and submit the constitution to the French parliament. Yet such a course of action didn't suit Chirac's strategy to outmaneuver EU countries that sided with the US-UK-Israel axis... A "Yes" vote to the EU constitution by French senators and deputies would have amounted to a sellout of French diplomacy. However, a "NO" by the French political class would have been even more disastrous! That was France's real conundrum: to keep the semblance of French politicians earnestly committed to Europe and, at the same time, to preserve France's geopolitical independence. Chirac brilliantly foresaw that only a popular referendum would do the trick.... Gus