French Senate OKs retirement reform in tense vote [Raise Retirement age to 62!]

via Drudge Report ^ | 22 OCT 10 | By ANGELA CHARLTON and ALEXIS DUCLOS

[DCBryan1]

Drudge Siren up!

FRENCH SENATE PASSES RETIREMENT AGE RAISE TO 62

[mylife]

Next thing you know they will be demanding 40 hour work weeks! /s

[DCBryan1]

Popcorn...check...

Remote...check

FR up....check

Gonna have alot of fun watching the Unionists, Communists, Socialists, et. al. rioting this weekend. If there are any conservatives left in France, you need to haul out the Guillotine and go "Algerian" on the disruptors.

[cdnerds]

Good they didnt cave!

[pogo101]

Retirement age from 60 to 62 .. and raised slowly over an 8-year period. In a country nearly as bankrupt as Greece.

Over this, they rioted? THIS?

Just damn.

I guess if a little rioting could secure me a nice pension at 60 or 62, I’d consider rioting too.

[DCBryan1]

Retirement age increased to 62????????!!!!!!!

gonna be a good weekend to watching "asskicking of socialists" on TV.

[ColdOne]

Oh my I thought I would never say this. but.... Good for the French!

[wideawake]

Bizarrely, the group most likely to reap the greatest benefits from this law - young people - protested the most violently against it.

[FES0844]

They seemed to be young, backpacking kids doing the rioting.
They should be made to clean up the mess they made, then go directly to jail. What a disgrace.

[alarm rider]

No, just send in the Kepi Blancs, they can be very persuasive.

[SevenofNine]

I watching some of the coverage on CNN internatioall this morning it funny it funnier than French Youth Muslums rioting I haven’t see since Laker fan went crazy last Championship game this past summer LOL!

[SevenofNine]

Nice see Mantbee back in charge at FR LOLOL I miss him ROFL

He is like FR first homepage more famous than Led Zeppelin first album cover LOL!

[Danae]

Not like they had much choice, France is broke. The rich have left, and there is little of other peoples money left to give to the masses.

Those idiots, just handing people money goods and services makes people LAZY. When the money really runs out, then all Paris will burn and they will only have themselves to blame.

[brent13a]

.... Good for the French!

I'm not really sure just how "good" it really is. France is essentially socialist and continues to sink farther and farther down the same hole that Greece has. Adding 2 years to the retirement age is like putting a standard band-aid on a sucking chest wound. What is it going to accomplish? In the long run probably zilch until the whole country realizes the Unions and Socialists need to go.....kind of like our country. Conservative Capitalism and the Free Market is the way to go, not government overrun and government oversanctioned......kind of like our country.

[pogo101]

I agree, but the line THEY would counter with is, “mais, unless the grown-ups retire at 60, there won’t be jobs for us (when we finally move out at age 30).”

Can you believe this “money grows on trees” fantasy land in which they live? Nothing has to be made financially self-sufficient. Let the Germans pay for it, I guess?

[concerned about politics]

Bizarrely, the group most likely to reap the greatest benefits from this law - young people - protested the most violently against it.

Yeah, but it got them out of school. The schools had to shut down. I don't think they had the faintest idea what it was they were supposedly protesting.

[max americana]

Raise retirement by another 2 years and the morons riot? We should’ve left these losers to rot when it was occupied by the krauts.

[Red Badger]

....and only five weeks vacation!..........

[nralife]

Add to that, the retirement age was 65 until 1985 or '86, when it was lowered under Miterrand.

[pogo101]

If you believe the tabloids, LOTS of things got “lowered under” M. Miterrand. :)