tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post282572695126957487..comments2024-02-29T02:10:56.878-08:00Comments on J O S H U A P U N D I T: France's Wealthy Flee The Country And Go GaltFreedom Fighterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-67954378305570758752012-07-17T06:40:23.544-07:002012-07-17T06:40:23.544-07:00O, Marianne [ sc, France ] , great lady, how far t...O, Marianne [ sc, France ] , great lady, how far thou art fallen. But thou hast made thy bed, & now must thou sleep in it. [ To be fair, Sarkozy was quite a headache, a la Nixon. The Bettencourt scandal, which implicated his cabinet, eg, Woerth, was an incessant, abiding distraction. ] Back to the Socialists & their dreary company policies. <br /> 1 thing I recall humourously re France is the popularity of 49-employee concerns. Why precisely 49 employees ? Well, at the dreaded 50 number, suddenly, you encounter a whole new raft of regulations & stipulations including : the worker councils. & try to fire someone in France ! Just try. Even if they are an habitual drunk, constantly tardy for work, you literally have to go to court to fire them ! <br /><br />PS : to neighbour Belgium : just do it ! Have a velvet divorce like Czechland & Slovakia. Convert silly Euroland Brussels into a self-governing enclave.<br /><br />to neighbour UK : please, Back-Bench Tories, don't permit, under any circumstances, the creation of a circus, political-list Lib-Dem Senate. Keep the Lords as they are or abolish them, but no 15-year ( ! ) political-list Senators. <br /><br />-- dragon/dinosaurAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com