GO YELLOW VESTS, now lets get some of this gumption here and take out the traitors in the FBI and the Justice system.
This interview was done by an Italian TV outlet and the quotes are not from the interview itself. They left the microphone on after the interview to get the explosive quotes from the man they were interviewing.
There’s a set-up for sensationalism by the Italian media outlet in an effort to discredit the Yellow Vests as radical nuts.
I haven’t read a single article about this phenomenon.
What is it they want?
(psssst!) Pierre, Jean-Claude, I hear from very reliable sources that President Macron said, “Let them eat cake”.
They've been protesting against Macron since November. In fact, it has spread to other parts of Western Europe.
You don’t have a revolution till you have arrests.
I’m so proud of France.
Go Yellow Vests..!!
If Macron falls, there need to be inquiries as to why the U.S. Government got surprised again.
Was he serious, or just blowing smoke (he thought the microphones were off)? Is he right, or just boasting, or just dreaming?
I don't know who this guy is but it reminds me of when the media would pick some guy at random and call him the leader or a top leader of the team party. But there was no leadership per se, it was a true grass roots effort that didn't have some centralized boss managing it. I feel like the yellow vests are the same. So what makes this guy the leader?
Typical American males would gladly give up there freedom and become slaves just for a beer, a pat on the head, and a piece of a$$!
Je suis Gilet Jaune !
It would be great to see the French repeat what they did in the 1790s. Their political class has earned such a result.
JoMa
A google search found there are estimated 20 million guns in France. I bet there are many French politicians who wish they had done a better job at gun control and confiscation.
And many politicians in the US who are paying attention and determined not to make the same mistakes. They distract us with focus on “mass killings”. But their concern is exactly the reason the 2nd was written. Useful idiots like AOC have no clue and really think gun restrictions will help the average citizen. Higher-ups like Pelosi understand history and what it will take to implement their policies. France may be adding to that history even if guns aren’t used in the resolution.
Good, I hope it starts a trend.
Get rid of macron and his leftist government.
I think America is only a few years behind France. We will have our own civil war when the Demonrats truly take over. And without a wall on the southern border, that will be sooner rather than later.
Macron is dead man walking. I’m surprised he lasted this long.
I don’t think American conservatoves realize all of what the folks of the “Yellow Vest” movement in France actually want.
Yes, they want lower fuel taxes. They also want lower taxes altogther and yet they also want the government to spend more money, particularly on social benefits.
One of their central complaints is the “austerity” program of Macron, which calls for less social spending to reduce overall government spending. They want the lower taxes, but not necessarily lower government spending.
Here are their demands their representatives delivered to Macron. I had Google translate them from the article obtained at the link here at the bottom. I made comments in parentheses ( ) after some items.
1. Two main propositions:
Reduce all taxes
Creation of a citizens’ assembly (??? - total democracy??)
2. Other proposals, on transport and ecology:
Reduction of the TICPE as well as the carbon tax
Suppression of the bill to ban non-road diesel “red fuel oil” (for farmers)
Prohibition of glyphosate (typical of “Greens” and “organic” farmers).
Cancellation of the biofuel bill on palm oil (shale gas, GMOs) (a bill that mandated increased use of biofuels)
Abandonment of the project to renew the French car fleet in electric and marketing of biofuels.
3. On an institutional reform:
Consultation of the people more frequent, by national referendum but also local (do they not have elected representatives ???)
Suppression of the Senate (more total “democracy”)
Recognize and count the white vote in the various election ballots
(The “white vote is the “I vote for nobody” ballots and the “I abstain” ballots. They are most often are not counted. As elections require a “winner” to get a majority or plurality of the votes cast; yet if the “white votes” were counted, then maybe, sometimes, the “white vote” would have the majority or the plurality, indicating none of the candidates won.)
Promulgation of laws by the citizens themselves
(Which means what? The mob in each village? I say mob, because following the ACTUAL actions of the French revolution, it is the mob in the street that becomes the stand-in for “the citizens themselves”).
4. On employment and business:
Decrease in employer charges.
(I am not sure, but I think this refers to the taxes taken out of wages).
Increased public financial assistance for permanent hiring on fixed-term contracts as well as for apprenticeship contracts:
-More particularly accentuated for the hiring of persons with reduced mobility
-Favoring non-precarious jobs
Increase of the SMIC. Revalorise the calculation of the family quotient accordingly
Help to return to employment or professional reconversion through effective and rewarding training
Respect male / female parity: alignment of the qualification and the position held at equal pay
5. To fight against precariousness:
Increase in pensions
End of special diets
Reassessment of Housing Allowance (APL)
Increased student financial assistance for settlement, mobility and culture
Retirement to the same calculation for all
6. In favor of reducing the public accounts budget:
Significant reduction in the salaries of government members
Abolition of privileges (salaries after term, fictitious jobs, allowances)
Control of expense claims of elected officials
Compulsory physical presence of elected representatives in Assembly
(none of these things will reduce the public accounts budgets significantly as they are not the main drivers of the public accounts)
For education, culture or health
Creating a real POSTBAC
https://www.lejdd.fr/Politique/verbatim-voici-toutes-les-revendications-des-gilets-jaunes-3809783
(I am not sure what they mean by “real”. The POST-BAC is the national exam system all French High school students take as part of the admissions process to college.)
Inclusion of people with disabilities in all areas of society
Access to culture for all (which means what?)
Decrease in assistantship (teaching assistants - they want more teachers)
Deletion of Article 80 (paramedics) (Patients can chose an amulance service they want, at public expense, but article 80 would put that budget under the direction of the hospitals, letting them select the ambulance provider. The Yellow Vests fear that will result in consolidation of the largest least expensive ambulance providers, elimination the smaller providers)
Total proportional restatement of the inheritance tax scale.(Franch inheritance tax is quite complex - the inheritance tax allowance is specific in amount but varies depending on the relationship to the deceased - most to a spouse, less to a child, less again to siblings. less again to nieces, nephwes aunts & uncles, and less again to others. Add that complexity to the rest of the inheritance tax regime, and you can see it takes a French person to understand just what “total proportional restatement” means.)