The French student worker revolt of last month has inspired some interesting support from unusual places. In this case the right wing Free Market News Network. David Lindorff writes a column entitiled AMERICANS SHOULD TAKE A LESSON FROM "SISSY" FRENCH YOUTH where he says that Americans could take a lesson in the need to struggle against wage slavery.
France remains one country where lifestyle and culture are valued. French people still insist on taking time to enjoy life, on having vacations when they are most enjoyable (summer), on receiving a fair wage, and on having some security in one’s job and health. Here in the U.S., we Americans are working longer and harder every year even as our standard of living falls, no one is secure in her job, health benefits are being gutted and our hope of retirement security is being undermined by political charlatans and an administration that is bankrupting the country with outlandishly expensive imperial wars.
The youth of France are standing up and fighting against the effort by a conservative government to Americanize their economy. Good for them!
When will we Americans wake up, take to the streets, and demand that our economy be humanized?
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