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Off topic, but
The US unemployment rate is 4.75%, which means nearly full employment (about 4% is inevitable due to people changing jobs, etc).
That of France is 11.2%, and twice that among workers under 25.
German's rate is over 12%.
(1) When are those guys going to figure out that the American system -- works? (2) Funny how you haven't heard about this in the MSM very much.
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Further to Kristopher's comment, just think how bad the rate would be in France if French employers could lay off or fire workers.
And to think that students at the Sorbonne are on protest to keep things this way. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/15/ap/world/mainD8GC3SH80.shtml
Well, we don't measure those numbers in the same way. In the US, we don't count people who have quit looking for jobs. It's rather duplicitous, really. Our real rate is considerably higher, but no one knows what it is for sure. They've stopped publishing a lot of those numbers in the last few years, too, because they're embarassing to the administration.
Problem is that there is always someone not looking for jobs: homemakers, students, and retired people. If you are not in one of those groups (or extremely rich) you are probably homeless or living in overcrowded government (or private) housing. Certainly some other statistics can help gauge the depth of unemployment.
It takes nearly an act of god to fire an employee in France.
So no french employer wants to take a chance on giving someone under 25, with no work history, a job.