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 French Protesters Hit the StreetsPosted on Oct 12, 2010
President Sarkozy, you’re on notice. On Tuesday, French protesters took to the streets en masse to send the message that they do not approve of their president’s move to change the country’s official retirement age. —KA
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By Brad Evans, October 13, 2010 at 11:44 am Link to this comment
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Two years? That’s it? Where will the money come from to pay for this?
Report thisHow can you work only 30-40 years and expect to collect a pension for 10-30? With the percentage of those over 60 increasing quickly, there will simply not be enough money in the bank to keep all these people in pensions.
Robespierre, you mean like the conquest of west/north africa and the Dreyfuss affair?
Is it “heroic” to demand to be paid for not working? To not work a short while longer so that the system doesn’t break down?
By Tobysgirl, October 13, 2010 at 6:35 am Link to this comment
FRTothus, we’re too busy worrying that our neighbors, even the ones who look like us, might be getting some sort of benefits that WE don’t get. The concept of group self-interest has seemingly become completely foreign to most Americans.
Report thisBy Robespierre115, October 12, 2010 at 8:32 pm Link to this comment
Nice to see there’s still a country around where people have self-respect and know their heroic past and will not take capitalist abuses sitting down.
Report thisBy berniem, October 12, 2010 at 4:59 pm Link to this comment
Vive La France! Obviously, the peasants see no difference between the plutocrats and “Aristos”! At the very least they are making the point that those who actually do the work, produce the wealth, and employ the government are those to be first in line to reap the benefits of their communal effort and not those who skim unearned profit from under taxed investment in dubious financial schemes and extortionary dealings with the less powerful and rapacious!
Report thisBy John Sullivan, October 12, 2010 at 1:02 pm Link to this comment
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You mean there really is a country where workers DON’T participate in their own disenfranchisement? I’ve heard the legends, but I never gave them much credence…
Report thisBy FRTothus, October 12, 2010 at 12:48 pm Link to this comment
Would that we had that kind of backbone.
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