If you’re French, I suggest you stop reading right now because you’re not going to like what I have to say. The French are nuts. First, they look down on everyone else because they think they’ve created this French utopia. Oh, yeah, utopia– except for the constant rioting.

The latest rioting is all about jobs, or lack thereof. You see, IF you can get a job in France, it’s very hard to fire you. So, in an effort to increase hiring of the French youth, the government has proposed a law that would make it easier to fire young French workers in the first two years of their employment. The French youth would clearly rather take their chances with the security of the few jobs that are available. So, they’re rioting.

Now, some claim that what they’re really rioting against is any proposal that smells like the tiniest move towards a free market economy. Why would that be bad? Well, because a free market economy equals an AMERICAN economy, and the French hate the American economy.

Why? Because the French are nuts (haven’t we already been over this?). In French logic, 20% unemployment is preferable to 5% unemployment. Well, really they’d still like the 5% unemployment, but only if they can get it without doing it the American way. I told you– they’re nuts.