Posted on 10/20/2010 8:03:52 AM PDT by EBH
PARIS -- Workers opposed to a higher retirement age blocked roads to airports around France on Wednesday, leaving passengers in Paris dragging suitcases on foot along an emergency breakdown lane.
Outside the capital, hooded youths smashed store windows amid clouds of tear gas.
Riot police in black body armor forced striking workers away from blocked fuel depots in western France, restoring gasoline to areas where pumps were dry after weeks of protests over the government proposal raising the age from 60 to 62.
Riot officers in the Paris suburb of Nanterre and the southeastern city of Lyon sprayed tear gas but appeared unable to stop the violence.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
Many workers feel the change would be a first step in eroding France’s social benefits — which include long vacations, contracts that make it hard for employers to lay off workers and a state-subsidized health care system — in favor of “American-style capitalism.”
Shoot them.
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A key thing to note, I think, is that the retirement age is being raised from 60 to 62 -- and a whole bunch of twenty-somethings are rioting because of it.
That may seem odd, but it's related to the job situation. France has a huge under-employment problem, and if the Baby Boomers don't retire, the young people have no hope of getting work.
Give them the early retirement they seek...real early.
Darned Amish are at it again.
If you think it is any better here than you are delusional. At least Sarko is not a muzzie like you know who.
Europe is in a dangerous situation. On one hand, we need democracy preserved for the sake of world security. On the other hand, if the muslim immigrants neither assimilate nor are controlled through the democratic process, the nationals have too much pride to allow their countries to be destroyed, which could eventually lead to dictatorship or monarchy. I can’t imagine ethnic French, German, and English nationals allowing barbarians to take over their nations if they cannot be stopped through the democratic process. The next 10 years will be instrumental to the future of Europe as we know it. Charles Martel and Pope Urban II are rolling over in their graves.
Agreed, and you beat me to the quote!!! “Give them a “Whiff of grapeshot”.
I’m waiting for riots in America. I think they will occur within 6 months.
>>I’m waiting for riots in America. I think they will occur within 6 months.<<
I think if we get the republican landslide many predict, there is a strong possibility that the election results will spark them. IOW, November.
But I also though it would happen this summer as everything finally imploded just too fast to ignore. I needed to heed this man’s words:
“...a Financial Asteroid Strike takes much longer to happen than you might expect, but once it actually gets underway, it happens much more quickly than you could have imagined.”
It’s taking longer than I expected, but I can clearly see it a comin’.
Only if there isn’t a new XBox game released or if the usual leeches run out of high cholesterol snacks and episodes of Glee.
The riots will begin with the federal checks stop. And the dimrat media will be egging them on.
I think it will be very different here than in France. France has some of the strictest gun control in the world. As a result, you see young looters breaking shop windows and stealing merchandise at will.
My theory is the American cities most at risk of these French-style riots/lootings will be the ones with the strictest gun control laws. Criminals are not dumb. Looting in a liberal anti-gun city is a MUCH better option for them. Try the same thing in Midland, Texas and the activity would be very short-lived (literally).
Whiff of grapeshot needed.
It will be interesting over the next few weeks in Europe. I heard another country was talking of cutting 8% of the public employees, 12% off the government handouts, and the stat that nearly made me go stat...40% off the military.
It would not surprise me if the unspoken fact is these are mostly, if not a large proportion, of Muslim rioters, using the protests to do their work. It is a yearly happening there, especially around New Year’s. Hundreds, if not thousands, of cars are torched during that holiday...
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