Posted on 10/02/2010 8:26:30 PM PDT by Libloather
Millions take to streets in protest of pension reforms in France
09:53, October 03, 2010
Millions of people including union members, political leaders, young workers and students marched through France's main cities on Saturday in their third attempt to force Nicolas Sarkozy's government to back off on retirement reforms.
According to labor unions' figures, about 2.9 million demonstrators participated in protests and strikes across the country. But the French Interior Ministry said the figure was just 899,000.
In Paris some 310,000 protesters took to the streets to protest against the raise of retirement age, said the unions. But police said only 63,000 people took part in the demonstration.
In Rennes, some 13,500 to 20,000 people participated in the demonstration. In Toulouse, the number of participants was 125,000 on the union side, but only 28,000 on the police side.
The demonstration in Paris has a scale similar to the previous one, but the scale of demonstration has declined on the national level, the Interior Ministry said.
During the last protest on Sept. 23, union leaders said about 3 million people participated, while the government reported only 997,000 participants.
"Demonstrations become wider and we have a large number of people supporting us. Surveys are clear to show more than 70 percent of the French ask the government to change the reforms, and it can not pretend not to hear these calls," Francois Chereque, general secretary of the CFDT labor union, told BFM TV channel.
"We are in the streets and this means we hope to obtain things and the government has to change its attitude," he added.
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a glimpse of our future
“Millions take to streets in protest of pension reforms in France.”
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Millions take to streets in protest of a reduction in the robbing of Peter to pay Paul.
Looks like we’ve got a case of demonstration fatigue here.
I’m getting the distinct impression that these French Lefty demonstrations are losing their once-legendary power.
There’s a lesson here for us: every time the Left goes to the mat, shrieks, pounds the table, marches in the streets, beats their breast and fails, they lose their ability to intimidate. They should be provoked at every opportunity.
They are outraged that their pensions will go from 90 percent of salary upon retirement at age fifty to 89 percent. (or something like that). Once the government mandates free stuff, it is awfully hard to take it away.
Yeah! We want to pay higher taxes for the next 30-40 years so the previous generation can knock off a little earlier.
A glimpse of our future. Now that the socialist demohacks have done the bidding of the idle, unemployed, "disabled", and lazy to gain a majority, they will not give up access to your pockets without a fight. As Riggs (Mel Gibson) says to his partner Muraugh (Danny Glover) in Lethal Weapon, "We're gonna get bloody on this one Roger." Hope you have a bug out plan.
More porridge please!
Oxymoron?
Yep.
OK. We will cancel the reforms I you can do one thing for me.
Get half of the people on pensions today to die tomorrow.
Get a bunch of the old fogeys to die off and we have a deal.
That is the reality of it. Your government can not afford to pay the pensions of all of the people on pensions today plus all of the people that will be starting their retirements in the near future.
It is not that difficult to understand. People retire too early and then live to long. Add to that that there are not enough young people working paying in to the system. Add to that the fact that work rules prevent worker from working overtime and the legal work week is 35 hours a week.
People are not productive enough in their working years and their working years are too short. Kind of hard to retire from a job that you barely worked and expect a nice pension.
Yes, this is the future of America if the statists are able to continue their work unabated.
too bad! Spoiled brats...
Give us stuff. We’re not happy with 4 day week works not will we take a small hit to better our Nation, even though we still have jobs. Friggin unions: gimme, gimme, gimme.
Well, that’s no problem, since so many believe the money comes from “Obama’s stash”.
Reality sucks.
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