Posted on 12/05/2018 5:43:28 PM PST by Kaslin
[”We have the best health care system in the world.”]
We got a guy that can make that go away. We’ll fund-raise the airfare for a one-way ticket if you promise not to return him. Comes with free wookie, too.
Get displaced and eliminated by muslims courtesy of the ruling elite.
Pam sounds Trumpian.
Sounds like France’s ‘working poor’ includes their middle class.
The continuously robbed masses know in their hearts that they’re fodder, are fed up, and are getting pissed. In many places.
The EU is stacked full of dry tinder, and sparks are blowing around. America is on the same path.
state-owned France24 says more concessions are on offer:
5 Dec: France24: AFP: Macron calls for political unity in face of ‘Yellow Vest’ unrest
The French government on Wednesday urged parties across the political divide to calm protests that have raged nationwide for more than two weeks, and signalled it was ready to make further concessions to avoid more violence..
The 40-year-old centrist president (Macron) was heckled Tuesday as he visited a burned-out government building in central France, hours after a new opinion poll showed his approval rating at just 23 percent.
He is yet to comment publicly since returning to France from a G20 summit in Argentina on Sunday morning...
https://www.france24.com/en/20181205-french-president-macron-government-yellow-vest-call-parties-calm-protests-unity.
They now have a counter example in President Trump.
And they don't give a crap about carbon emissions targets if the solution is in their wallets.
The problem is that a lefty doesn’t know who to root for in France right now. Macron jacked taxes through the roof in order to force the people off of fossil fuels and “save” them from the evils of climate change. The peasants, who never miss an opportunity to vote for more lefty policies, are suddenly finding their cost of living going through the roof so they’re biting the hand that feeds them. Macron’s shaking his head trying to figure out why they’re so ungrateful at him for trying to save them from themselves. They’re ticked off because it was supposed to be the rich that got taxed more, not them.
I love the line about France having the best health care system in the world. That guy obviously doesn’t get outside of France much. French health care is bordering on third world. I have a colleague that had to be rushed to a Parisian hospital for an emergency procedure, they almost killed him. He said the place was barbaric, unsanitary and patients stacked on gurneys in the hallways.
French hospitals are so bad that many years ago American expats living in Paris got together and opened their own hospital so they could get U.S. quality care. The problem now is that they’ll take anyone that can pay so the wealthy french pay to use the American Hospital in order to get away from the french medical system. The hospital fills up quickly and often American expats can’t get admitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hospital_of_Paris
As Ann Coulter has pointed out, along with her usual reams of evidence, the French Revolution was a revolution based on Left Wing ideas and causes, and that's why they have what they have.
Our Revolution, on the other hand, was based on conservative values and causes.
Aux barricades! A bas les aristos!
I always said Pamela Anderson is a lot more than just a pretty face.
The maxim a government big enough to take of you turns out to be a government NOT big ebough to take care of you.
As it stands, despite oppressive levels of taxation, the French state is increasingly incapable of meeting that responsibility.
Its one thing to hand over everything in your wallet when all your cares are taken care of and life’s worries don’t stress you out.
When the state breaks the social contract with you to do that, what people once accepted passively has become intolerable.
In a word, the dirigiste state is gone but nothing has arisen to replace it.
..... Silly Question ..... It's Europe .... The answer will always be, as with our New Generation in America ........... "Free Stuff"... or More Higher Subsidized stuff ....
In 1788 the sans culottes (without breeches), those of low and middle income, rose up against the self important French elites determined to keep the small people in their place and to keep themselves in unearned comfort. This touched off the first modern socialist revolution and 25 years of continuous war in Europe.
In 2018 the gilets jaunes are doing the same. For the most part, so too are the new French elites. Those on the streets in their yellow vests must understand the similarity. Will the French army join the rioters as they did in 1788? If so, an ugly historical repeat may unfold before our eyes.
The NappyOne
Bkmk
“But as a resident of France, I’ve seen benefits (particularly health care benefits) dwindle over the last 10 years to cover less and less, without a commensurate reduction in taxes. I’ve also seen French people in true need continue to suffer while the government diverts its resources to newly arrived migrants.”
We are doing the same thing in this country, and the “dry tinder” is rapidly being replaced by outstretched palms of imported foreigners. If Europe had enough dry tinder, they wouldn’t be importing millions of parasites into their homelands. The muzzies are the “replacement tinder”...and non-contributing beneficiaries of the welfare state.
“They’re ticked off because it was supposed to be the rich that got taxed more, not them.”
Yep.
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