Striking is the French National Pasttime.
Well, I wonder what Macron plans to do to their retirement system.
Pretty scary, go your whole life paying into the system and then they change the rules. I cannot blame them for rioting.
Soooo... basically business as usual in France, then?
tanstaafl
Is the Macron lad laughing now? Or has mummy made him come indoors so he won’t lose his head?
Ah, the "mostly peaceful" riots gambit by the news media. It indicates whose side they're on.
What, i guess the 6 month summer holiday isn’t long enough now?
France is long overdue for a bloody revolution.
Is macmoran still laughing?-)
The United States economy is so large that individual states have bigger economies then some countries
reference - map comparing states with nations.
https://www.businessinsider.in/californias-economy-is-as-big-as-frances-heres-how-every-state-compares-to-other-countries-in-a-single-map/articleshow/68636751.cms
California and France are about equal with the major difference the fact that California is just one state and is not solely responsible for the total government expense (or military)
Europe is screwed. Their leaders thought bringing in third world migrants would help pay for their social burden, they don’t, in fact they add to the social burden.
I have a very important flight scheduled in May.
I decided to avoid the EU completely and fly west even though it added 4hrs flying time.
These EU ‘Strikes’ tend to multiply and I didn’t want to get it canceled like Air France did 2 years ago.
I will NEVER travel to France ever again!
Lesson #1 about bennies.
You better be damn sure about handing out bennies because once you do you will pay the pains of hell if you ever try to take them away.
At least there is some form of ‘adjustment’. We will simply continue the social security and medicare debt bomb.
Such times makes eyebrows fall off.