The generosity of the French welfare state is well known. Last summer, French President Jacques Chirac, highlighted the French welfare state as a model for the rest of the world, while denigrating Anglo-American society. Under the French system, those who have jobs receive exorbitant holidays and extremely limited work hours. Under the French system it is extremely difficult to fire French workers, no matter how incompitent or unproductive. Those who don’t have jobs receive cost of living allotments to cover food, housing, transportation, etc. Under the French system, no matter how slothful, unproductive, lazy or useless a person may be, the French government will see to it that their needs are provided from cradle to grave.
With the arrival of the bitter cold in France, French authorities have issued weather alerts throughout the country, with a special note of caution to be mindful of the homeless, who are especially susceptible to the cold temperatures. Wait a minute, homeless in France? How can this be in a country that spends 1/3 of its GDP on various welfare programs? How can a country, so committed to the notion that people are wards of the state when they won’t do for themselves, have a homeless problem, and a significant problem at that, with several hundred thousand across the country. In France a low-income family can receive subsidized housing and well over $1000 each month in additional benefits. Not to mention universal national health care system and retirement benefits.
How much of a deadbeat must a person be to be homeless in France? We already know that most homeless represent the very least man has to offer. These are the people who have done nothing to avert such disastrous conditions and maintain their lifestyle through the generous handouts of passersby, but in France where the state goes out of its way to provide for such vermin, these people must be especially useless. The French and any welfare system is a system of serfdom, which offers little in the way of incentive for people to work or achieve. Further demonstrating that a culture of dependency is not the wave of the future as the left would have us believe, but a slippery slope toward disaster.
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