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FRENCH SENATE PASSES RETIREMENT AGE RAISE TO 62
Posted on 10/22/2010 12:19:35 PM PDT by DCBryan1
PARIS – The French Senate, pushed into an early vote, approved on Friday a hotly contested bill raising the retirement age to 62, hours after riot police forced the reopening of a strategic refinery to help halt growing fuel shortages amid nationwide strikes and protests.
In tense balloting after 140 hours of debate, the Senate voted 177-153 for the pension reform. The measure is expected to win final formal approval by both houses of parliament next week.
President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative government, keen to get the measure passed and quell increasingly radicalized protests, cut short the debate and voting process using a special procedure. Critics on the left dubbed the use of Article 44-3 of the Constitution a denial of democracy.
The tough stance by the government extended to strikes as French riot police forced a strategic refinery to reopen Friday, aiming to halt growing fuel shortages that have emptied gas pumps around the country and risked hurting industry.
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FRENCH SENATE PASSES RETIREMENT AGE RAISE TO 62
Next thing you know they will be demanding 40 hour work weeks! /s
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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.
Good they didnt cave!
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.
gonna be a good weekend to watching "asskicking of socialists" on TV.
Oh my I thought I would never say this. but.... Good for the French!
Bizarrely, the group most likely to reap the greatest benefits from this law - young people - protested the most violently against it.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
....and only five weeks vacation!..........
If you believe the tabloids, LOTS of things got “lowered under” M. Miterrand. :)
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