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Is Macron the Ocasio Cortez of Europe?

"On Tuesday, representatives of the Yellow Vest movement said the temporary freeze on the tax proposed by the French prime minister was simply not enough."

The word 'permanent' in the OP title isn't supported by the article.

LastMan says

"On Tuesday, representatives of the Yellow Vest movement said the temporary freeze on the tax proposed by the French prime minister was simply not enough."

The word 'permanent' in the OP title isn't supported by the article.

The initial offer was for it to be temporary.

https://nypost.com/2018/12/07/in-france-les-deplorables-strike-back/amp/.

In France, les deplorables strike back.

Their lives are fenced in by an ever-growing skein of nanny-state regulations. Before the fuel tax, there was the unpopular rollback of the speed limit on France’s roads to 80 kilometers (49 miles) per hour from 90 (56). The same week, bureaucrats added dozens of new requirements for vehicles, forcing many cars off the road. Macron’s government offered drivers a $4,500 bonus to buy electric cars: a Marie-Antoinette moment seen as an insult by les déplorables.

There's just no place in this world for Socialist Scumbag Liberals. May he be disemboweled in the public square.
And may Merkle join him.

Tenpoundbass says

There's just no place in this world for Socialist Scumbag Liberals.

You mean like these who demand moar gubmint bennies, higher minimal pay and "protection for the migrants" while wearing yellow jackets and burning cars? The original tax revolt has been taken over by pinko fucks.

www.youtube.com/embed/gpDiYQ-fnpo

www.youtube.com/embed/698-wkEwWZo

"Loi Schiappa pour pedophile" = "Schiappa law for paedophiles" Schiappa is a government official in charge of "equality between men and women", whom somehow is defending the government on TV on everything and anything, and whose approval widely vary. She passed a law, there was a lot of disinformation on it so I don't really know what it does, but it was criticized for (apparently) reducing consenting age. Something like that.

Yes, they legalized child marriage for Muslim pedophilia. There is no age of consent for sex in France anymore.

French Obama and his grandma/wife should step down.

We really need to air drop copies of the constitution to them when they protest... so they have a solid blueprint to work from.

Something else that is supposedly a real list:

End of the tax hike on fuel.
Promote the transport of goods by rail.
Tax on marine fuel oil and kerosene.
Monthly minimum wage at 1,300 euros net ($1947 CAD per month after taxes).
Indexing of all wages, pensions and allowances to inflation.
Nationalization of the fuel for home heating and electricity sectors.
More progressive income tax (more marginal tax brackets).
The end of the austerity.
No withholding tax.
Restoring the taxes for the ultra-wealthy.
Same social security system for all workers, including the self-employed.
The pension system must remain in solidarity and therefore socialized.
No retirement pension below 1,200 euros ($1797/month CAD).
Increase of disability allowances.
Retirement at age 60, and a right to early retirement at 55 for workers who have worked a hard manual labour job.
Continuation of the Pajemploi help system until the child is 10 years old.
End of outsourcing of work for French corporations.
Limit the number of fixed-term contracts for large companies, replaced with more full time employment.
Maximum salary fixed at 15,000 euros [monthly] ($22469/month, or maximum annual salary of ~$270,000).
Jobs for the unemployed.
Any elected representative will be entitled to the median national salary.
The popular referendum must enter into the Constitution. Creating a readable and effective site, supervised by an independent control body where people can make a proposal for a law. If this bill obtains 700,000 signatures then this bill will have to be discussed, completed and amended by the National Assembly, which will have the obligation, one year to the day after obtaining the 700,000 signatures, to submit it to the vote of all French.
Return to a seven-year term for the President of the Republic.
End of presidential allowances for life.
Proportional voting system.
Elimination of of the Senate.
Accounting of the protest/blank/none of the above ballots.
Promote small businesses in villages and town centers. Stop the construction of large commercial areas around the big cities that kill the small business. More free parking in city centers.
No further privatization of French infrastructure.
Improved funding for the justice system, the police, the gendarmerie and the army.
All the money earned by highway tolls will be used for the maintenance of motorways and roads in France and road safety.
Immediate closure of private trains, post offices, schools and maternity homes.
Maximum 25 students per class for all ages.
Large corporations (McDonald's, Google, Amazon, Carrefour ...) pay big [taxes], small businesses (artisans, SMEs) pay small [taxes].
Protect the French industry to prohibit outsourcing.
End of the business tax credit. Use this money for the launch of a French hydrogen car industry.
Eliminate credit card fees for merchants.
Lower employers' charges.
Continue exemption of farm diesel.
Improve the lives of the elderly, by banning exploitation and making money off the elderly.
Substantial boosts in mental health fund.
Prohibition of glyphosate.
Immediate end to temporary foreign worker programs.
Plan for improving insulation of housing (help the environment by helping the household).
Rent control. More low-rent housing (especially for students and precarious workers).
Treat the root causes of forced migration.
Fair treatment of asylum seekers . We owe them housing, security, food and education. Work with the UN to have host camps open in many countries around the world, pending the outcome of the asylum application.
Return of unsuccessful asylum seekers to their country of origin.
Real integration policy is implemented. Living in France means becoming French (French language course, French history course and civic education course with certification at the end of the course).

Booger says

Something else that is supposedly a real list:

Yeah that list is after Soros infiltrated and just Commied it up real good.

That's not a list of demands, that's a Communist Manifesto.

Sorry, but a movement with such a hodgepodge of (often self-contradicting) demands is bound to fail. This is a wrong way to do it.

Are free speech and free shit mutually incompatible?

#UPDATE A total of 1,723 people are arrested across France with 1,220 ordered held in custody, during the latest round of "yellow vest" protests, the interior ministry says pic.twitter.com/JZVHIEZ4iP— AFP news agency (@AFP) December 9, 2018

Interesting, French Police were beating the shit out of protesters and in Belgium they were arresting them for wearing leather jackets because it was "Protective Gear".

Good thing this is Europe, or people might complain about the level of force. What IS the Media's definition of police overreaction?

Ceffer says

Are free speech and free shit mutually incompatible?

That’s pretty accurate. Democrats love giving free shit away as long as you are willing to accept bigger government control in your life.

Tenpoundbass says

Yeah that list is after Soros infiltrated and just Commied it up real good.

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Antifa has joined the protesters.

As if on cue...



"All reactions to neoliberal stooges, left or right, must be Russia and Putler! Globalism is the way and the light!"

Booger says

Monthly minimum wage at 1,300 euros net ($1947 CAD per month after taxes).

1,300 Euros is less than $1,500 per month. California minimum wages are going to $15.00 per hour, which equates to around $2,600per month.
We are paying too much to California workers and yet they complain all day long.
"We want a living wage. We want a living wage. We want a living wage." Go to France for your living wage.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

As if on cue...



"All reactions to neoliberal stooges, left or right, must be Russia and Putler! Globalism is the way and the light!"

lol Russia

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Are these people armed for fuck's sake?

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They do have that Guillotine.

Booger says

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Are these people armed for fuck's sake?

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They do have that Guillotine.

Time to start polishing them.

????

Booger says

#1 direct democracy: All we need is Joe-6-pack making policy to reach a Nirvana of social harmony. That works great in CA!
#2 less taxes. But remember we want the same benefits!
#3 ... and we want to close the budget deficit. Just because #2 would be too easy otherwise.
#4 regional power: because it's well know that regions in France are always managed like clockwork.
#5 we want more buying power but less efficient food production.
#6 because we want to buy German products made in Germany. This will restore jobs in France. And remember we also want more buying power.
#7 withdrawals of public media subsidy: so private conglomerates can decide what news we watch.
#8 And no Europe. We are big enough to close the deficit and buy German crap without any help.

Why to they hate wealth transfer from working, middle class citizens to ignorant, scum-sucking, subversive third world immigrants? Are they inhumane or something?

Ceffer says

Why to they hate wealth transfer from working, middle class citizens to ignorant, scum-sucking, subversive third world immigrants? Are they inhumane or something?

Nah. Just stupid.

Heraclitusstudent says

#1 direct democracy: All we need is Joe-6-pack making policy to reach a Nirvana of social harmony. That works great in CA!
#2 less taxes. But remember we want the same benefits!
#3 ... and we want to close the budget deficit. Just because #2 would be too easy otherwise.
#4 regional power: because it's well know that regions in France are always managed like clockwork.
#5 we want more buying power but less efficient food production.
#6 because we want to buy German products made in Germany. This will restore jobs in France. And remember we also want more buying power.
#7 withdrawals of public media subsidy: so private conglomerates can decide what news we watch.
#8 And no Europe. We are big enough to close the deficit and buy German crap without any help.

And once these 8 demands are met, we have 8 more demands to be met.

Heraclitusstudent says

#6 because we want to buy German products made in Germany. This will restore jobs in France. And remember we also want more buying power.

Typical EU 4th Reich Trick. Buy up the Cold War factory in Eastern Europe, leave millions of East Germans unemployed, pay minimal wages, market it as if it's "German Quality" made by well paid Germans with high tech German tools.

Brexit can't be sooner.

Those protesters got balls like our founding fathers almost.

Ironically Americans, at least here in CA, have been submitting to big government like pushovers.

Think you know the real France? Here are a few facts that may shock you:

• The French state has been bankrupt since 2004. A minister finally admitted it in 2013.
• French GDP hasn’t risen above 2% in 50 years. Yes - FIFTY. The average annual GDP growth rate between 1949-2018? 0.78%.
• In 2018, 14% of the population in France live below the poverty line (they earn less than 60% of the median income).
• Worse, more than 50% of French people have an annual income of less than €20,150 a year (about $1,900 US per month).
• The 'official' unemployment rate is 10% - about 3.5 million citizens (in reality, it's much higher).
• The youth unemployment rate is 22%. Yes, you did read that right.
• Astonishing but true: the French government employs 25% of the entire French workforce...and it's impossible to fire them.
• Because the citizens make such little money, they pay no tax. Less than 50% of French pay any income tax at all; only around 14% pay at the rate of 30%, and less than 1% pay at the rate of 45%.
• The government can't deliver services without taxes, so it borrows money. France's debt-GDP is now 100%.

Another revealing statistic: "structural unemployment" is now at 9 -10%. That statistic measures when it is impossible to find people who have the skills and qualifications, to fill available positions. Why? French kids aren't being educated to participate in the workforce. So even if France has a growth spurt (it won’t), they won’t have the labor to fill the new jobs.

So how did this epic disaster happen? And if blame is to be allocated, who bears the most of it?

In other words - why are millions of French citizens on the rampage, right now?

Because there’s a real France, that few ever see.

The France of the gilets jaunes. Or as we might label them, les deplorables.

And they are in a state of fury at a ruling class who not only let the population suffer, while enjoying a life of luxury and wealth, but who also blame ordinary people for their own suffering.


The French Ruling Class

Many still understand France through the lens of Vogue magazine covers: a nation of affluent, happy people who live in elegant homes, with endless holidays, wine and food.

A 24/7 utopia of chic, elegance and style.

Important to note: that France does exist. It is the world of the French ruling class, less than 1% of the population.

This small group of citizens have dominated the business, banking, legal and political scenes for decades.

The ruling class comes from a small group of grandes ecoles, or elite colleges. There are only 3 or 4. The top of the top? L’Ecole d’Administration Nationale (ENA).

Emmanuel Macron’s journey is typical of the ruliing class. He completed a Master's of Public Affairs at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (called "Sciences Po"), the #2 elite college, before graduating from ENA in 2004, age 27. He then worked as a senior civil servant at the Inspectorate General of Finances (The Treasury), before getting a high paid gig ad an investment banker at Rothschild & Cie Banque.

See how fast Macron worked his way into the senior civil servant position in the Treasury, before flipping into an exclusive investment bank? That is normal in France. It's a never-ending protected cycle of patronage, promotion, favors and cronyism.

Here’s another French word: parachutage. It is normal for young ENA graduates to be "parachuted" into senior civil service positions at a very young age, some as young as 25 years of age, without even interviewing for positions.

Imagine this. You’re an American, working in a French corporation. You're a very talented executive with 20 years experience and stellar performance reviews. Suddenly, your boss’s position becomes available. You apply.

A week later, a 26 year old is sitting in your old boss’s chair. Your new boss has been "parachuted" into the position.

This happened to one of my best friends in France, a bi-lingual MIT/Stanford graduate with 21 years of superb work experience across the world.

The French kid? A graduate of ENA.

ENA has a complete stranglehold on the French state. Only 100 students graduate every year.

Set up by de Gaulle just after WW2, the original concept was sound - to pool students of extreme talent and ability in one place, in order to create a new civil service that could re-build France.

It worked. Very talented patriots flocked to enter ENA and within a decade, the new French civil service had successfully rehabilitated France as a leading nation-state. From 1946 through 1973, France experienced what they describe as their trente glorieuses, nearly 30 years of economic success.

But by 1970, ENA’s meritocracy had become a self-replicating elite caste - and a ticket to the French ruling class. Astonishingly, every French President since de Gaulle has been an ENA graduate, excepting Georges Pompidou, who attended Sciences Po. Eight of the last ten French Prime Ministers have been enarques. All key civil service/government departments are run by enarques. How about business? 84% of the 546 top executives in France’s 40 biggest companies are graduates of a handful of elite colleges. 48% come from ENA and Sciences Po.

Get it? If you want to be part of the French ruling class, graduate from ENA or Sciences Po.

Otherwise, screw you.

Read the whole damn thing.
https://quodverum.com/2018/12/344/france-understanding-the-gilets-jaunes-uprising.html

@Rin, for minor parallels between certain schools and the US Ruling Elite.

The sale of yellow vests limited to avoid a "French contagion"

https://www.jeuneafrique.com/683851/politique/egypte-la-vente-de-gilets-jaunes-limitee-pour-eviter-une-contagion-francaise/

Booger says

The sale of yellow vests limited to avoid a "French contagion"

LOL, that shit is mandatory to have in your car there. So basically there are already at least as many vests "in circulation" as there are cars on the roads.