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that one generation of underemployment fucked up integration pretty badly.

As did France losing its faith in its so far successful integrationist policies under the Agnlo-Saxon influence, with the persistent narrative that integration is a failure in France.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 20th, 2009 at 05:49:34 PM EST
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Absolutely.

We had the superior model, we still do, but we need full employment now to make it work. Not all the time...but now, certainly.

Personally, I make certain ideological compromises precisely because of this point (and perhaps coloured by  my own experience with unemployment in the '90's...)

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Tue Jan 20th, 2009 at 06:11:04 PM EST
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