The thing has been hijacked by the SJW. Now it's about free stuff and soaking the rich.
Sorry folks, It’s ain’t the rich causing the problems. It’s all the free loading immigrants you have to support that are causing the problems. No rich people equals no jobs.
Kick him when he is down...
La Cage aux folles jaunes!
Pre-recorded speech? Way to exude confidence!
They want their government to serve them.
Not for their government to say, “Here’s some money. Now sit down and let government serve itself.”
Why? Just to punish the rich for being rich?
It’s time to ‘storm the Bastille’. After that, do a Dresden on Brussels.
RN, the CGT and CFDT are anti Macron! Macron is a technocrat Tony Blair. There are many groups protesting. The majority aren’t libertarians! They still want the goodies. There was never a majority running around for less stuff from .fr
Les Deplorables
Good.
Crushing higher taxes were merely postponed another six months. They won't work any better then they the do now. And raising the minimum wage will do nothing effective. Nobody is hiring.
Demonizing "the rich" and taking all their money is not going to help either. There isn't enough.
France has run out of "other people's money" to pay for their socialist extravagance. There simply is not enough loot remaining in their economy to buy off the different factions which have been promised benefits. The factions are not taking kindly to being shorted. Too many people's lives depend on continued payments from the Government.
I’ve been to France scores of times, but I cannot imagine how they perceive ‘social injustice’ as I compare it to my home country, The United States of America. We are a country of immigrants, some who descend from the unwillingly imported slaves. I can empathize with that. I don’t know what French injustice looks like compared to ours.
That said, I think it’s a good thing if the Gilets Jeunes are not biting on the scraps of cake Macron has thrown them. Because the people who cry about injustice in America are, imo, crying about the wrong things. We have more social mobility, more programs, more affirmative action, we have gay marriage, we have freedom of speech and wide liberty of action. So I am at a little bit at a loss for understanding most of American leftists complaints. We don’t have the patriarchy people say we have - sure there are the 0.01% of richest men, but that is not even the 1%. Men die 7 years earlier on average. Men are far more likely to be incarcerated. Men get heart disease at higher rates. Men die on the job at far higher rates. You cannot define a culture pointing at Bezos and Zuckerberg they are the anomalies not the norm.
It should be the big wide middle of all races, sexes, orientations and political stripes complaining about injustice in America. We have 3 tiers of justice - one for the poor, one for the rich, and one for the elites. France barely has the type of criminal justice system we have that crushes those in the margins. $400 speeding tickets, $98 parking tickets, tail-light stops to shake down the middle classes and search their cars, confiscation of property without trial... while the lowlife billionaires and heads of studios get their charges dropped and pleaded down the big fat middle get squeezed with thousands of dollars in court costs for misdemeanors. And that’s just one shard of an iceberg of complaints.
If the big fat middle is waking up in France, that gives me a lot of hope for what could happen here. Not that I want to see riots and destruction of national treasures, only that I wish people would wake up - especially the left - and realize how they are being played and paid for their partisanship with table scraps. They still get screwed in the end, but console themselves for ‘the crumbs’ they are allowed. Time for a social awakening.
They’re thinking “How many cars do we have to burn to get the taxes cut down some more?”
If these protest continue this weekend and are just as large and violent as last weekend I think that could cause Macron to resign. He put everything on the line with that speech and if that doesn’t solve it, he may have to go.
How often does it happen that in the same week the governmental leadership of the UK and France could fall. Throw in this gunman (another Alla AkBar killer) in the mix and it just makes the whole situation more toxic.