I dare say that if the French government stopped providing enough housing for the population, reduced payments to people out of a job to poverty levels, made cuts larger than the ones imposed to education, charged large fees to those wanting to enter further education and cut public services to the police and hospitals, then they could do so, but they seem to want a society that is not broken.
and past the huge debt to future generations. The weekly riots portray a different France, poverty, unemployment and racial tension.