French students protest against supply and demand Tom Smith

AP (Paris)  French students took to the streets again today to protest the law of demand.

“It is humiliating, how you say, most unfair,” said Jean-Luc de Roubeauxchambaird de Muscadet.  “Just because there is more of a thing, why should it mean that it is less dear?  It is not less dear to me,” remarked the philosophy graduate student, who was busy setting a vintage Citroen DS ablaze.  “And less of a thing, more dear?  It is most paradoxical, a contradiction, if I may employ the Marxist terminology.”

French trade unionists are cautiously supporting students in their call that the laws of both demand and supply be repealed.  “These are English laws, very bourgeois, and we do not like them very much,” said Eiloueouieoeux D’Ohmiquexioueix, president of the National Congress of Florists, one of the more radical unions. “We should be able to charge whatever we want, and still make a decent living.  Otherwise, one works too hard.” 

“Prices go very much up and down; what is that about?” added Horeauqqiw D’Orbit, a student leader.  “This is discriminatory.  How can we know what things will cost with all of this up and down?”

High government officials worried out loud yesterday that protests might spread to cover rainy weather in large parts of the country, and perhaps gravity and other physical constants.  “We can fake repealing supply and demand,” said the official.  “Gravity is much harder to disguise.”