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So, now f**king what? Our national health system is still on the brink of collapse. Our school system and our judiciary are slowly getting there too. ...
All three are going down the tubes at once? What on earth does high tax France (it is high tax isn't it?) spend its money on?The same thing a lot of European countries spend too much money on : able bodied old people who could at the very least pay reparations from the externalities they have created. Antonio defends them because they are out on the street now wearing dungarees and act as victims in protests with hammer and sickle banners and megaphones.
I have more time for the youth who hate work and believe we are living in the Bullsh*t Jobs scenario, but fundementally the EU is going to an unproductive, lazy, overregulated, desolated, declining mess if we follow the French model of trying to stop the race to the bottom. I don't see these people actually saying what can make the EU compete against the US and China in the global race? To actually make our jobs more easier and productive? Like less hours, more siestas, acid/speed binges to boost creativity, cutting waste in the public sector? All of them would pout and reject this because they are mentally still teenagers. In the end we will be outgunned by the chinamen slave dystopia model and the vulture Right to Work capitalists in the US, if we want to retain our productivity, we might as well think of some creative solutions to outflank these two economic powers (forget the Russians whose private sector is a joke, Burkina Faso with nukes). No Union is brave enough in Europe to look at this issue from a global perspective, because for traditional ideological reasons many of them are borderline tankies who think Xi Jingping is some sort of working class hero.
Macron blew this because it has become a political crisis due to his insistence on rushing the policy through rather than letting the Assembly debate it endlessly, and more importantly, as with many things in his Presidency, he didn't make it a Eurozone issue which is what it is. He needs to come out right now and call a press conference calling for a Europe-wide debate on a minimum pension age, and a boost in productivity fund. If he had made this a European debate the opposition voices would have been outflanked by the fact that France has such a low retirement age compared to others and resorted to attacking the EU, which French people don't seriously want to leave other than the cranks. Make it an EU issue and he would have actually benefited.
Macron is an extreme centrist. His electorate are extremists. They are not compromisers, it's why he couldn't form a coalition government. They cherry pick democratic norms the same way a Le Pen or Mélenchon would cherry pick democratic norms. Presidents in the past used 49.3 after significant legislative debate and the fact that the text was usually insanely long. Macron did it this in a rushed manner because he has no time for the legislative process or democratic scrutiny.
How is the judiciary collapsing? Presumably that is due to non budgetary reasons, whatever the source of the malaise.
The French police basically blackmail the government to siphon justice resources to help them get shiny new gear to tear gas teenagers while claiming to fight the "zones de non-droit" that they just keep as it is
The justice system in France is extremely underfunded in parts.
