Dennis Prager looks at the student and union led demonstrations in France and sees the corroding effects of socialism.
And what is this all about?You can read Prager’s column here.
It is all about a new law in France that allows a company to fire a person under the age of 26, without cause, within two years of being hired. …
What these massive demonstrations reveal is the narcissism, laziness and irresponsibility inculcated by socialist societies. …
These young people in France really believe that they should be able to be hired at their tender ages and that a company must not be allowed to fire them from their first day at work (except "for cause," which, as we are learning in America, is increasingly difficult to establish). …
Socialism teaches its citizens to expect everything, even if they contribute nothing.
Under socialism, one is not only liberated from having to take care of oneself; one is also liberated from having to take care of others. The state will take care of me and of everybody else.
The socialist idea sounded altruistic to those who began it, and it sounds altruistic to the naive who believe in it today.
In practice, however, it creates self-centered individuals and a narcissistic society. So while it may have begun as a way to help others, it has come to mean a way of evading responsibility for oneself and for others.
That is why France is so frightened of the utterly rational idea that a young person should have a two-year trial period at work before being granted a lifetime job.
On Prager's point that socialism leads people to evade responsibility for themselves and others: Almost all the leftists speak and write in support of socialist doctrine, but in fact practice social darwinism.
Example: I hear a lot of talk from leftists in my community about their support for the living wage movement and the need to narrow wage gaps in America.
But at other times, I hear them say they’re not sure but that they’re paying too much to the people who clean their homes and cut their lawns.
When I learn what they’re paying those people and do the numbers, it almost always turns out they’re paying nothing like a living wage.
And how do these leftists determine what to pay their workers when the money's coming from their pockets instead of the government?
Simple, they pay as little as possible. But, hey, they support employment for all, the elimination of poverty, and those students and union members in France.
So they must be wonderful people. How dare anyone criticize them.
2 comments:
I think maybe this is strictly a cultural thing. As I see it the real problem is that the ever so valorous( at least when they tell it) and malodorous citizens of France are afraid that the new legislation is but the camel's nose under the edge of the tent.
They may be correct. It may well be this is the first step in a strategy to get Frenchmen to accept some kind of responsibility in their own lives. Horrors! A nation of surrendering men and fraternizing women that owe their possession of their country to the sacrifice of their betters, being subjected to doing something worthy of their sustenance on their own.
No damn wonder they're angry, it's so...so...so ... unFrench!
fish and straigtarrow,
Thank you both for very apt comments.
John
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