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France Says 35-hour Week is Failing

A Daily Telegraph article being re-run in the Chicago Sun-Times [1] reports that France is suffering under it’s socialism… they’ve just not figred that out yet. In this case;

The French government Monday described the 35-hour working week as a financial disaster that was costing the state billions of dollars and promised to reform the system despite fierce union opposition. … The finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, said that the 35-hour week had burdened the state with additional social charges and that it had demoralized millions of workers.

Unemployment, says the report is now just under 10%.

Do you suppose they’ll ever figure out socialism doesn’t work?