The past, according to a famous American dictum, is never dead. It’s not even past. First said in a spirit not entirely agreeable to today’s present—William Faulkner, who wrote it, was, in part, indulging the white South’s preoccupation with the Lost Cause and its grievances—it is, nonetheless, true. And it is particularly true in France, where the past is more present than perhaps anywhere else.
In some ways, de Gaulle spoke more honestly about the state of France and the war in that appeal than he did after it. He emphasized that France’s defeat did not mean that thewar had been lost, because France might yet be saved by the British military and by American industry—truths that he was not often willing to state quite so candidly later.
Yet what makes the intensity of the opposition improbable is the seeming modesty of the proposed reform. Basically, the age of retirement would rise from sixty-two to sixty-four, and, symmetrically, most workers would need to work for forty-three years, rather than forty-two, to be eligible to receive the French equivalent of social security.
The other reason rests on the claustrophobic nature of French politics, in which bad faith, raw personal ambition, and reverse-spin politicking overwhelm pragmatic argument.
Last week at the grocery store I had a lot of fresh items, so I didn't do self-checkout. I was astonished that my groceries were bagged by a woman in her 70's (or 80's), who clearly needed to rest. I've never been so ashamed to be an American. The U.S. is a failed state. Greed
a government providing workers a pension isn't a 'welfare state'. French pension system has three pillars: the state pension, compulsory supplementary pension, and voluntary private pensions. Workers who want to boost their pension savings contribute to all three pillars.
It's not reform and it's not modest, I don't know why people who don't understand something are paid to write about it. Good on the French!
Americans will never understand French values and what they are willing to do to protect them.
Watch Emily in Paris to find out why.
Inertia. Change is hard. I had plans. What the fuck?
seriously? two years of a lifetime, fairly modest? i'd like to see you trade off 2 years of your life when there's no compensation or no social justification
France has democracy. The U.S. has an electoral college & two-per-state Senate, and a *republican* govt on the verge of taking away Social Security & Medicare, so Americans can have the *freedom* to enrich billionaires until the day they drop dead.
ummm, we’ve been suffering under global right wing austerity for decades maybe?
Because they are French
Because is pension demolition not any reform
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