Posted on 10/09/2022 6:44:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
French author Annie Ernaux, who was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize this week, signed an open letter Sunday supporting a mass protest against President Emmanuel Macron called by the country's left-wing opposition.
Organisers of the demonstration on October 16 accuse Macron of failing to tackle soaring prices for energy and other essentials, and insufficient action against climate change.
"Emmanuel Macron is seizing this inflation to widen the wealth gaps, and boost the profits of capital, at everyone else's expense," said the letter in the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.
"And this shock is allowing this government of the rich to open a new phase: attack the pillars of our solidarity, the heart of our social protection — first with employment benefits, and now the pension system."
Ernaux, 82, was listed first and among the most prominent of the 69 signatories that included fellow authors as well as economists, professors and activists.
Macron, a former investment banker, had hailed Ernaux's winning of the Nobel, calling her voice "that of the freedom of women and of the forgotten".
But the unusual public criticism from a writer whose profoundly intimate and feminist works have achieved widespread acclaim in recent years could bolster anger over his plan to make the French work longer.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Wanting to lower energy prices and "address climate change" simultaneously is sort of like killing for peace or fornicating for virginity. Unless she supports nuclear power.
A French authoress is a left wing nut. What a shock.
Pretty good summation of the effects of and the reason for inflation.
The FED has 2% inflation as a goal which warms the frogs slowly allowing the theft of the nations wealth to continue unabated.
The middle class will eventually die but the rich will be left with everything.
Rinse, repeat.
Another guzzler of the Kool-Ade!
Macron’s attitude against doing business with Russia and his subordination to the EU-NATO will mess up his own economy and fuel the Leftist Kool-Aid drinkers protesting in the streets.
People protesting yesterday in Paris against NATO and for France taking Russian energy supplies...
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/192244/French-protesters-call-for-withdrawal-from-NATO
Charles De Gaulle backed France away from NATO in 1967 if you know your history and he was no Leftist.
What exactly are her qualifications, that would provide any reason to entertain her economic pontifications?
She writes about...herself.
‘On 6 October 2022, it was announced that Ernaux would be awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature[30][31] “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Ernaux#Literary_career
Call me a Philistine, but it’s pathetic that people read and praise books written by a self-absorbed woman about her self-absorbed life.
The same outfit (Nobel Prize) gave Hussein Obama a ‘peace award’. No longer impressive.
She’s a fiction writer, what does she need facts for?
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