June 29th, 2008 by The Rider

A question for French citizens only!?

Here we go again with riots by youths in France!
As an American I’m struggling with this issue & am hoping you can help me understand.
Here in the U.S. young people don’t have 1/2 the rights French youths do.
Unless you are “dirt poor” we have no nat’l health insurance, no free education after primary school, no maximum working hours, we have a corrupt, gov’t which cares more about BIG business than our sovereignty, environment, or anything else for that matter.
But the most you’ll get out of our youths is complaining!
In France, now BOTH times youths were BREAKING THE LAW (hidding from police in an electrical sub-station & running from the cops on a stolen moped), & these same youths who are living in gov’t provided housing, w/free healthcare, free schooling, free childcare, & in many cases there on asylum are destroying their own neighborhoods & trying to kill police, doctors & firemen? Why does France stand for this & why don’t you bring in riot police & beat & jail them?

If the french faced the problems of things like no health care, and education, we would have a revolution, not just riots.

The French take politics much more seriously than Americans, and do not have the oh well we will wait until the next election to change things.

The government is there to serve the people, and not the other way around.