How is that when they aren't even SHOWING they are on strike? Work is still going on, life is still going on, it's just the streets are even smellier than before.
And boo fucking who about a retirement age elevating to 62 with the expectation that medical and even living expenses will be covered for the next 15+ years of your life by the government. I cannot access (without penalty) money I have saved up for myself until 70. I cannot gather a pension because I am lucky enough to work with a company that can provide one (extremely rare now) until 69.5. I cannot get SS (the retirement plan that France has basically, just far less) until after 67. And I am still responsible in part for my medical care after 70 and responsible for most if not all before then.
Nope, no patience for those millions on strike. It is just being lazy so as to silently protest having to be lazy at 60 instead of 62.
Its easy to be happy when you produce nothing of value to the rest of the human race.
Yeah, short term thinkers who have a very long history of politics and have somehow managed to stay afloat for hundreds of years. Wonder how they do it.They are happier because they don't do anything and are allowing their country to wallow in bankruptcy. They are short term thinkers by nature and this will be yet another example of the french thinking the world owes them something when they collapse in on themselves like some kind of...help me out here dave
Its easy to be happy when you produce nothing of value to the rest of the human race.
they make renaults, peugeots and citroens!
the Le Car!
The amusing part is if they tried to raise it to 75 you wouldn't react like the French. Your personal responsibility ends right there - with yourself. There is no big feeling and something done about it like the French. They have a fantastic way of living and are much happier in general than most the world because of it yet some people (Americans included) are happy to be dictated to, trodden on and made to work til they die without trying to change that.
Viva la francais I say. For once.
I think the french should just take a bath and stfu
The fact that you think that was in reference purely to consumer goods shows how little of the subject you. )You know most your stuff is made in China etc. right? ^__^
Chinese must be superior to you.
They stay "afloat" because until recently people who were lazy and useless were shot.
You have no idea what you're talking about, servant.
when my retirement was raised from 67 to 70 I didn't stop working. I worked harder so that hopefully I can make enough to retire "early" at 67 again. I didn't just sit at a cafe and puff a ciggy with a glass of wine and bitch to no one about it.
The fact that you think that was in reference purely to consumer goods shows how little of the subject you. )