As Bill reins in the french entitlements and exposes the consequences (street riots) my eyes crosses in a demonstration "If I can't have my benefits, You can't have your profits" and Jean-Paul gets I guess the kind of controversy it was reasonable to expect since he speaks a now rather rare version of the french language....

Amasing world?

What about "If I can't have my profits, you can't have your benefits as part of my profits pays for your benefits"?... What kind of set back can someone had to experience to demonstrate for benefits? After all "benefits " (excluding special needs) are just the price you're paid to accept to not be asking for your small or not share of profits? Are you better off with benefits from the state charity scheme politicians sponsors for election purposes or should you be demonstrating and telling the gov, you have a duty, I don't want any of your charities, make sure the economy runs high, adopt the legislations needed to end any monopoly public or private whatever the sector as well as any too big to fail, adopt customs legislations making sure no one entertains competition with any of the previous and work endlessly to make sure everyone has at least a small share of "profits" and is in the competition?

Now, how could french workers and their organisations be doing anything different when they have been dealing with govs that have shown them for the past 35 years, more or less that it was OK to run budget deficits, a poor economy with a constant lack of jobs, a retirement system ponzi like funded? What is happening here is exactly what happened to Bernie, I mean frankly, the gov collected money on wages they spent paying the previous generation of workers pensions and they're telling the folks that want to get out the scheme, well, we can't pay one out of ten pensions therefore we have to change the rules you guys can use to get out, guess what? the folks don't like it and eventually don't want to hear about it....? If someone has to be blamed here, it's the gov and not just Sarky's but all the previous for quite a while since they knew this was coming and did little or nothing to enter the path to a more sustainable system and spread the effort over time to get to a truly funded retirement system?

Next, Rupert. Rupert, could you please start a FoxEU News Corp and lend Bill and Geraldo for a quick moment? To teach that even in the middle of a controversy you can speak and run a show so these guys can talk to one another even to disagree?

Look, Jean-Paul, you should have been wiser unless you did it unpurpeous and wanted to organise a new flight to the North Pole with some dressed for a WE in the Bahamas?

I will tell you what I heard and if so, Geraldo (he's great at that) or Bill could have you guys, Elie and a few others including a bench of french journalists on a show for a decent conversation like it took place for Imus and many others?

He's talking about his company and career in business, "J'ai travaillé comme un nègre" something people of his age uses to describe how hard they worked endlessly to succeed and referring directly to slavery times ie "I worked like a slave"(meaning "I was enslaved to the company I created to insure its success" that's what I understood? I see nothing there negative? Slavery is history meaning it did happen. Then comes something calling on culture obviously to be used cautiously. Jean-Paul is an educated man with great knowledge, very successfull in business and used to talk to very educated people. Following immediately the previous statement, "Je ne sais pas si ....." the interogation form of the statement referring to "why is it that we have in the language this expression" (not very much used nowdays, a generation thing with probably a better memory of what was slavery times) "...when it seems that there is such a widespread sentiment that people of that community doesn't want or doesn't like to work? Very contradictory to have both ie the first part of the statement (object of the controversy) and the sentiment in society the second part of the statement interogates, I understood he underligned. That's why I believe, I wish, there was somekind of show this people that obviously don't speak the same language could sit together and have a conversation about culture, what's inside the words depending on who uses the words?