The problem is that a lefty doesn’t know who to root for in France right now. Macron jacked taxes through the roof in order to force the people off of fossil fuels and “save” them from the evils of climate change. The peasants, who never miss an opportunity to vote for more lefty policies, are suddenly finding their cost of living going through the roof so they’re biting the hand that feeds them. Macron’s shaking his head trying to figure out why they’re so ungrateful at him for trying to save them from themselves. They’re ticked off because it was supposed to be the rich that got taxed more, not them.
I love the line about France having the best health care system in the world. That guy obviously doesn’t get outside of France much. French health care is bordering on third world. I have a colleague that had to be rushed to a Parisian hospital for an emergency procedure, they almost killed him. He said the place was barbaric, unsanitary and patients stacked on gurneys in the hallways.
French hospitals are so bad that many years ago American expats living in Paris got together and opened their own hospital so they could get U.S. quality care. The problem now is that they’ll take anyone that can pay so the wealthy french pay to use the American Hospital in order to get away from the french medical system. The hospital fills up quickly and often American expats can’t get admitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hospital_of_Paris
“They’re ticked off because it was supposed to be the rich that got taxed more, not them.”
Yep.