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.).
Of course, the French voted in all these policies.
I’m no fan of the EU or Macron, but holding ridiculous politics and then ultimately storming the government you voted in isn’t really a great approach to things.
Service jobs, or what I call value added jobs, do not create wealth. Manufacturing CREATES wealth.
No matter what’s on the list.....they want Macron out.