Another Reason Not to Fear the French
by Mr JugglesTheir new president plans to implement controversial legislation by waiting until all his citizens leave for their (long) vacation. Brilliant and yet pathetic, a la meme fois.
Parliament usually is away from mid-July to October, but Mr. Sarkozy has suggested he would call a special session to push through legislation while most of the French are vacationing — and when it would be hard for unions to mobilize them.
The unions warned against it. “Whoever is elected president, if he or she thinks there are things that must be decided very fast, in a flash, and pass them in July, watch out,” said Mr. Mailly of the Force Ouvrière federation. “There’ll eventually be a boomerang effect.”
Absurd. The US equivalent to this would be traders running up the price of thinly-traded and heavily-shorted stocks during August when the entire financial community is out in the Hamptons. Oh wait…
Recommendation: Long summer vacations, short France and the Hamptons.
Given how lazy American unions are, my mind shudders at the pace of French unions.
The French Boomerang (made of baguettes? mimes?) won’t hit that hedge fund hating two faced SOB until he’s rolling in his grave.
I’d like a French Boomerang and a coffee (black) please.
those french unions have a certain “i dont know what” that i just love.
And they don’t have a word for entrepreneur either. Although what union does?
France: higher GDP per hour worked than the U.S.
Also, I really hope Kilian is joking.