After three centuries of focus on external enemies, today’s relative peace has given us an opportunity to scrutinize our neighbors. It turns out we don’t like each other very much.
My blog post has links to text and video from BFM-TV in France.
https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2018/12/breaking-news-macron-regime-in-france.html
Macron will have to raise taxes to pay for all the police deployment.
They brought this on themselves.
The lot of them. Childless European leaders who claim allegiance to their pocketbooks and private islands.
That includes Roberts running off to that cave in Malta after 0bamacare.
Makes you think.
According to the spokesman for the Yellow Jackets a couple of hours ago, here’s the top complaint on the list of over 20 items. Their wages are too low to support their taxes. They pay about half of their incomes in taxes—taxes that include much for social programs. Many of them are paid about 4,000 euros with only about 2,000 euros for net pay after taxes. It’s a result of previous so-called austerity programs, mostly added taxes.
There’s FRexit (getting out of the EU), but that’s further down the list with only a smaller portion of Jellow Jackets voicing support for it.
Socialism stinks. Here, in the U.S., with some 40 million people receiving incomes from government, the only way to avoid more and harder socialism is to keep a large part of the population employed and sufficiently paid in the private sector with incentives to vote for candidates like Donald Trump. That means more manufacturing.
And no, manufacturing jobs are not “dead end jobs.” But the “service economy” is, and that experiment has failed as shown by the mounting piles of debt (loyalty-free trade, balance of payments deficits, trade deficits, lack of big, sustainable revenues for the outrageous load of government, etc.).
Macron’s government is confiscating Chrstmas decorations out of fear that they’ll be thrown at police (radio news from Europe).
The beatings will continue until moral improves. How dare you misbehave, we are working for the people only the people are not french
There’s a report that the police have resorted to stronger gas and they are using phosgene on the protesters.
Any idea how potent that stuff is?
The BBC put out the notion that phosgene is believed to be in use.
I found this link to info from the Centers for Disease Control.
https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/phosgene/basics/facts.asp
Macron learning how hard it is to get toothpaste back in the tube.
I am in Paris right now near the Seine. I don't see jack s* going on. plenty of Christmas decorations. people strolling around.
walked by the premier house just now after breakfast. yeah, the gendarmes were out in combat gear but they seemed to be just standing around with nothing to do.
cafe’s are pretty full, traffic light.
so maybe somewhere near the arc de triomphe stuff is going on but i don't see anything remotely like “lock-down”.
a lot of retail stores are closed though, and there are boards up and paper covering a lot of windows. i don't get the paper thing, but who knows.
“The latest clash on the #ChampsElysees - tear gas & stun Grenada are fired to push back protesters from the narrow side streets back onto the wide boulevards. So far 481 people have been arrested in the #Paris region alone”. - Sky News
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LIVE! In Paris France On The Ground With The Yellow Vests
Not a peep when they were flooded with 7th century troglodytes but raise their taxes like they voted for and all hell breaks loose.
That’s the ticket.
Clamp down even harder on the protesting citizens.
That will convince them that you are right and deserve to stay in power. They’ll be sure to quiet down after that.
Right?
The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France. People do not want to pay large sums of money, much to third world countries (that are questionably run), in order to maybe protect the environment. Chanting “We Want Trump!” Love France.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1071382401954267136?s=19
No ability to afford health care, stolen elections, political censorship, borders open to hostile invaders by the millions, rising prices and yet we sit in front of our TV/PC screens fat and complacent.
