Posted on 10/20/2010 8:56:18 AM PDT by mojito
A car explodes in flames and policemen clash with rioting youths as spiralling violence grips France. This was one of many flashpoints across the country yesterday amid growing public anger against raising the retirement age to 62.
In the town of Nanterre, north-west of Paris, officers also fired rubber bullets and tear gas at youths protesting outside their secondary schools.
They fired rubber bullets and tear gas at youths protesting outside their secondary schools.
Troublemakers – not students – were accused of starting a riot, pelting firemen with rocks as dozens of vehicles were smashed and set ablaze.
Meanwhile, British travellers were warned to stay away as trains, planes and motorways were brought to a halt ahead of today’s national strike.
More than 1,000 petrol stations ran dry as panic buying exacerbated a blockade of oil refineries ahead of a crucial parliamentary vote to approve the pension overhaul.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The UK cuts 500,000 government jobs.
Angela Merkel declares multiculturalism a failure.
Things are happening in Europe. Could we be seeing the beginning of the end to the welfare state and the left's multicultural experiment?
Stay tuned.
And how much revenue have these bozos just killed off? Cutting off their noses...............
What? The world doesn’t owe us all a living? Help me get that news to my kids and the guy from The Rent is Too Damn High Party in New York!
The calming effect of such medication delivered in this manner is well documented.
An oft told tale, to be reheard many a time again.
62! Quel dommage!
You can’t expect someone to work until they are 62!!!
We are not mules.
That is nearly 100 in metric.
Next thing you know they will cut our vacation to 5 weeks!
What is this the middle ages?
Has slavery returned to France?
When will we have time to eat croissants and drink wine?
Non! This is unacceptable!
C’est la vie!
How ironic (and sick!) is it that these European socialist welfare states are the Democrats' model for what they want to turn America into?
This is like a temper tantrum by a child that has been spoiled to death, when both parents lose their jobs and are no longer supplying the steady stream of free toys.
Europe is there. They are ahead of us, but not by all that much. I watch this unfold with great interest, because the story coming from Europe is our story too.
It was such a good idea to become more like France, Mr. Obama.
barry saddened
A few Chinamen with shotguns has been effective in the recent past.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2610589/posts
Could be the beginning of the next European “civil war”. There is always another one.
I get mellow just thinking about it...
That means IMMEDIATE RETIREMENT of a different sort with no benefits.
And here we are being told about an impending terror threat to France by the Islamofacists. Their probably sitting back thinking to themselves how much money they just saved to use on some other country...
Leave it to the French to destroy their own country before someone else can...go figure..
Gonna get worse before it gets better (if it ever does get better).
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