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To: tejek who wrote (260008)	11/15/2005 3:44:01 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571353

Re: The rioters are growing tired so it looks like a respite will emerge soon. When that happens, Chirac better get his act together, or the riots will mostlikely start anew next spring/summer. Actually, it's not up to the President or the French government to "get their act together". The immigration problem lies with corporate France and its lily-white workplace... Sometimes I wonder if public opinion is aware that France is NOT a Communist regime where government apparatchiks are in charge of the hiring and firing of workers. Mind you, France too belongs to the brave, "liberal", capitalist world where corporate executives are free to rely on a lily-white workforce if they deem it suitable --as you yanks put it, it's a FREE country! Yesterday evening, President Chirac at long last gave his address on the riots and announced his initiative to set up a Civil Service akin to the military service of yore as a stopgap to ghetto idleness... But, as I said, even if French authorities were keen on rescuing their ethnic ghettoes through a Great-Society plan, they'd still face ominous circumstances: unlike 1960s America, present-day France has no GDP growth, France's biggest employers, whether private or state-controlled, want to lay off by the thousand, and the widespread use of computers and the internet has displaced hundreds of thousands of white-collar workers... Hence your forecast is probably correct: the present riots are but the first of a series. Gus