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Massive strike yesterday in France (no wait, that's not the surprising part) to blackmail the government and make sure the over-privileged civil servant caste of untouchables will keep working less, retire sooner while being paid the same (and possibly more but that will probably be the theme of a subsequentThe
Le Figaro reports "One million of anti-reformists" and the Ludicrous Liberation comes up with the same number. (That's a lot of phonies by the way. More than any ruthless dictators could ever hope to see opposing US warmongers. No blood for pension).
Clearly, since all those anti-this and anti-that demonstrations in France lately, I'm not really surprised to see the whole scope of the French press, whatever its affinities, singing in the same choir and with the same voice.
They took the habit while unconditionally supporting Saddam and they apparently enjoyed. Ein Land, Ein Volk, Ein... Gedanke (One land, one people, one thought).
What's more, it saves time writing the articles; and with this 35 hours worked week, you can call that a savior.
Anyway, as usual, the
The other just sleeping or reinvesting in the coffee machine like always, I guess.
The most efficients among them were those of the
No brainwash for the French youth yesterday. The French
There are several mandatory pension systems in France.
I'm sure you noticed that the important word here is mandatory.
There's a large "general regime" for a great majority of workers from the private sector and an obscure whole slew of "special regimes", dedicated to different public and private sector recipients (Dockers, miners, trainmen, members of the parliament and so on).
We're talking about some 530 (or so) different special conditions for 530 (or so) specific corporations, tuned and imposed by the state and constituting 530 (or so) advantaging dispositions within a mandatory deduction system.
Before the French Revolution, you would call that: "iniquitous privileges of the Ancient Regime".
After the French Revolution, the Socialists call that: "social justice and progress of the Republic".
It's just a question of date and terminology.
Don't puke now, it gets even better than that.
Take for instance, the SNCF (French National Railroad Company) or the RATP (Parisian buses and subway) special regimes.
They are
Yet, there were no trains, buses or subway moving yesterday and the SNCF and RATP employees were among the most motivated and assiduous strikers.
That's not a surprise either, but that's not really the point.
So you may legitimately wonder why. You may think that some kind of "solidarity with their fellow workers" or even this strike-happy French mentality can explain that the unconcerned and untouchable castes were on strike as well yesterday.
You could be right about the second one though, but not this time.
This time, they feel involved because, you see, most if not all special regimes are in the red. I mean deficit.
This is usually what happens, sooner or later, when you keep spending money you don't have.
It means that their own contributions are not sufficient to finance their privileges. Basically, they don't (or can't, if you take the miners for instance - since there aren't enough of them in activity anymore) pay enough for this inequalitarian perversion, in their own advantage, of our self-acclaimed "pension by repartition" system to work.
Consequently, pensions and advantages of the aristocracy and clergy are being paid by the third estate, drawn from the general regime's sack. And it's been working like that for years.
Yeah I know. Date and terminology.
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