Posted on 03/08/2023 10:48:52 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Violent riots and economically damaging activist actions broke out in France on Tuesday as the country saw one of its biggest mass mobilisations of protesters in years in response to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the pension age from 62 to 64 years old.
Millions of people took part in protests across 200 towns and cities in France on Tuesday, with the organising CGT union claiming that up to 3.5 million people flooded out onto the streets, while the French Interior Ministry put the number at around 1.28 million.
The protests and accompanying trade union strikes were the sixth such demonstration since January against President Macron’s planned pension age hike to 64, which would still be lower than other major European nations such as Britain, Germany, and Spain. Nevertheless, the proposal has sparked outrage among the French public that has been suffering under economic hardship caused by rampant inflation.
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France is about a decade ahead of us in this, maybe a decade and a half.
Did the people pay into the system and the politicians do something else with the money?
Just saying.......
But I don’t know about their system.... now in the USA.......
The French people are going to bust the guillotines out of museums and use them again.
Don’t you dare touch that GIMMIE THAT MONEY!
The French, rightly, wrongly or perhaps foolishly, expect their government to keep its promises to them.
The French are going on strike? When AREN’T they on strike?
***Did the people pay into the system and the politicians do something else with the money?***
I remember reading that during WW II, the US imported Mexican workers to take the place of American workers then in the army. A part of their pay was given to the Mexican Government as future retirement for those workers.
All that money disappeared for years but it looks like Mexico has found enough to pay some of them off.
It’s a lot like Italy’s.
Insanely unrealistic promises swallowed hook, line, and sinker by people who shoukd have known better.
If the people protesting engaged their brains they’d realize that the pension fight is a feint by France’s Deep State.
The citizenry is allowing itself to get suckered.
Again.
When they're on holiday.
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