Tisk Tisk to the French

Because USA never has riots...

What "responsibilities" do the french have in the suburbs? Maybe they should hand out free money to everyone and the problems will go away? Unemployment is much higher in Europe than it is here in the USA, so where are the jobs for the immigrants?

Social programs in the EU are much more liberal than the ones we have here, which is perhaps an underlying reason for the high unemployment problem. Why work or start a business when you can get a check for doing nothing?

TRAVELER wrote: Why work or start a business when you can get a check for doing nothing?

This is one of those misinformation pieces that gets repeated enough to where people start believing it.

I am not aware of any European country where there is a general handout program.  TMK, in all cases, welfare is tied to unemployment (after having had and lost a job) or childcare - much like it is in the U.S.  There are some short-term special programs (including some for immigrants), but no broadbased "you get money" program that I am aware of.

While many European countries do have more extensive social programs than the US, the "more extensive" part mostly relates to funded health care, education, and retirement.

Somebody please point to a European benefits program that just hands out money for nothing.

Kristofer you are now officially the dumbest forumer.

now why would you hate the french... they gave us delicious toast, and an awesome kiss, and fries.

oh my bad... maybe not the fries cause those are now "freedom fries"...

procarbinefreak wrote: now why would you hate the french... they gave us delicious toast, and an awesome kiss, and fries. oh my bad... maybe not the fries cause those are now "freedom fries"...

Bah, they weren't French in the first place. They were just called that, who knows why.

choopie911 wrote: Kristofer wrote: No. I posted it not to bash france. even though I hate them. I merely wanted to show that USA has half the problems then Europe with unemployment. Its also to me an indirect way of showing why capitalism is much better. although it is flawed in many ways. Seriously, you're an idiot. France is capitalist. And can you tell me some good reasons why you hate the french, or are you just yet another mob mentality type of guy who hopped on the "bash the french" bandwagon?

kind of like the "bash the USA" bandwagon?

there's always a hate america bandwagon...no matter who the president is...all the media will still be bashing...all the radio personal will still be arguing and debating...all the punk bands will steal be screaming about how much the gov't sucks...it's just the cool thing to hate the good ol' u s of a

Yeah, theres always a bandwagon to hate everything, what's your point? The right thing to do is to not join that bandwagon without reason. I want to hear his reasons for hating the french, cause I think they'll be bogus.

Swing and a miss on your part, but, please do explain why you hate the french.