To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (260190 ) 11/15/2005 3:42:56 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to 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. 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.
