Re: French politics

On Mon, 07 May 2007 13:26:26 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 07 May 2007 16:47:39 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Eeyore wrote:


Joerg wrote:



Eeyore wrote:


John Larkin wrote:



Europe's economy...... sure needs a kick in the ***.

Why exactly ?


Take a look at the unemployment numbers.


We're doing fine here.


In the UK maybe. Isn't it around 6%? That would be ok but not exactly
"fine" IMHO. However, John was talking about Europe and not just the UK.


Is the UK in Europe? They can't seem to really make up their minds,
which is understandable.

The UK and Ireland seem to be doing very well lately. France, Germany,
and Spain less well, with possibly bad demographics looming. But
modern economies are so productive that nobody in Europe is going to
go hungry or anything radical.


Not hungry but some countries have already had to put a crimp into some
"social achievements". Health care, welfare etc. A society can somehow
support 10% unemployment but if it goes much beyond that the system
quickly becomes stretched to the limits.

They could be a lot more productive if they would stop considering
engineers over 45 geezers, and then lament about an engineer shortage
that in reality doesn't exist. My layouter is certainly marching onto 60
by now yet he just finished a stellar job. That was after midnight
yesterday. He cranked 20 hours on Saturday and finished about a week
ahead of schedule. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy would still pull
that off when he's 80. Oh, and the (very active) CEO of one of my
clients had celebrated his 80th many moons ago.


I'm 60 and I'm just starting to get good at electronics. I have an
uncle who owns a successful nail distribution business and he's just
taken up designing medical instruments; he's 75.


John


.

Quantcast