France to scrap 35-hour work week

You mean they might have to work FORTY hours? Oh, the inhumanity of it!

From Neal Boortz:

French lawmakers abolished the 35-hour work week yesterday. They passed a bill allowing employers to increase working hours an additional 220 hours a year, which puts the new work week closer to 40 hours. The former Socialist government had swept into power with the 35-hour work week policy, and what happened as a result should come as no surprise.

Working only 35 hours per week, France was not competitive. Unemployment is high there...10.1 percent. But wait...by reducing the work week, that was supposed to create millions of jobs! It did not. Just like raising the minimum wage here, manipulating the market did not produce the intended result.

Besides, anyone who only works 40 hours, much less 35, is not going to be particularly successful in life. Hard work is how you get ahead in this world, and that includes working a lot....not sitting around bashing America and eating buttered snails.

You do have to pity the French, though.....with a longer work week, they're probably going to have to shower more than twice a month now.

Yikes. Did I really say that?

Yeah, Neal...you did. And I adore you for it! To quote Larry the Cable Guy: "That's funny right there! I don't care who you are, that's just funny!"