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!
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.
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.
Reality sucks.