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https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230501-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-france-faces-major-labour-day-protests-over-macron-s-pension-reform

. . .

May Day - Huge protests against Macron and his "pension
reform" initiative yet again. Flash-bangs and tear gas.

Macron has destroyed himself politically, probably his
party too. This is not going to just go away, it keeps
increasing. Pols say it now "threatens the establishment".

Well, maybe it's time to flush most of that "establishment"
and go with something new ???

OTOH ... French "socialism" ain't what it used to be.
The money isn't there anymore and you can only rob
'the rich' just SO much before their businesses and
such have to close.

Some say the French pension system wasn't THAT bad off
and would recover on its own within a few years (minus
any unexpected problems). Maybe so, maybe not. Thing is
that as expenses and inflation and foreign competition
increase there will soon BE a point where the pension
system, and a lot of others, can no longer deliver what's
been expected ... maybe not even what's needed.

The UK also has been losing money for quite awhile. In
their case it's been, or been most visibly, their health
system experiencing an implosion. It's not JUST that, but
it's most visible to the average Brit.

The unions/commies WILL keep pushing for more money and
more entitlements even as the money sources shrink. In
the end this is unsustainable. This MAY be The Plan,
implode the governments on the theory communism would
replace it all ?

Or fascism ...

Lots of unpleasant -isms out there ......

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