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Friday, September 23, 2005

Screw The French!

No... really.... They are looking for ways to increase their population. So...

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France offers an incentive for 3rd child
The Associated Press FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2005
PARIS France on Thursday announced financial incentives for parents to have a third child, hoping to increase its fertility rate by helping people to juggle the demands of work and family better. A new measure will award 750, or $916, a month to parents who take one year of unpaid leave from work after the birth of a third child, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced at the close of a national conference on families. It will take effect in July 2006. “We must do more to allow French families to have as many children as they want,” the prime minister said. France’s fertility rate, at an average of 1.9 children per woman, is the second highest in Europe after Ireland’s, which is closer to 2. But it is still below the 2.07 level needed to prevent population decline.


I like the idea of a new tourism motto...

SCREW THE FRENCH!

I see no downside to using this as a marketing ploy!

I'm guessing Clinton condoms won't be a major import any time soon.

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Avatar for KurtP

$916 a month? What is their normal monthly pay? The wife makes twice that at her sweatshop.

Do they only mean white French couples, or the illegals that breed like cats anyway?

KurtP on September 24, 2005 at 05:10 am
Avatar for The Whistler

I suppose I could if she bought be a couple drinks first.

The Whistler on September 24, 2005 at 06:09 am
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They’re going to pay people to stay home from work to have children?

That’s going to do wonders for their economy.


When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Rob on September 24, 2005 at 07:10 am
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I’ll start with the newsreader babe

ICallMasICM on September 26, 2005 at 05:09 am
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