Surprise

A FRENCH DILEMMA                                POURQUOI PAS

ONLY IN FRANCE                                  A FRENCH DREAM

Well if you don’t know it the votes have been cast in the French Senate to make the official retirement age 62, semi, the full retirement at 67, here is your news flash..

As Mme. Lagarde said “You have the right to strike but not block. You have the right to demonstrate but not break.”  They never heard her a typical reaction from angry thoughtless people.

The strikes cost millions of Euro’s not just from the destroying and breaking but causing people to lose their businesses.

A truck driver caught on camera who was trying to pick up gas at one of the refineries responded to one of the strikers who was adamant about him joining the strike and was not sympathetic to their cause. “What about my family and all the ones that depend on gas to get to work, the store, church etc. What about the Gas Station owners who depend on the sale of the gas to keep their doors open what about them?”

Good question what about  them and others like this truck driver? Many of the small gas stations have gone out of business or will need Governmental aide to stay open.  Some the boats in the Harbors sat there for over 35 days their expenses didn’t go on strike and most of them were not oil carriers. This will have an inflationary effect on everything from food to cloths and everything in between.

What’s really revolting is the Gangster rapper want ta be’s who destroyed properties, public and private, costing in the millions, weren’t so active the last week of October when the final vote was cast. Why? Well they were on vacation something that happens around this time every year in France for the schools. Which shows how dedicated they were to their “weak as water” cause. Most of them have never worked a day in their lives and what’s even scarier is that they will have adopt a system like the U.S. if they want to keep their Socialized System going before most of them are in their mid 30’s.

My heart goes out to the ones who believe in their country and want to do everything they can to make life better for their families may they prosper.

The final hour

NOW OR NEVER                   A FRANCO AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

A FAREWELL TO VIOLENCE                             WHAT NOW?

Today October 21, 2010 will be the decisive day whether Sarkozy’s 62 year old retirement age goes into effect.

Whether it does or doesn’t the Unions driven by the hardcore Socialist’s  have wounded their efforts by not coming forth and telling the students and other rioters, supposedly sympathetic to their cause, that violence is not the answer and is not acceptable. Why haven’t they? They don’t know how they know how to complain and disrupt but have no answers on what can be done to rectify and go on. Another reason is if they ignore it long enough it will go away.

Their best argument for keeping the retirement age at 60 is that their fathers retired at that age. What they won’t tell you is that Sarkozy was elected because one of his campaign promises was to reform the retirement system What happened? He’s doing what he promised to do but it’s like most everybody else forgot about that part.

October 19th they burned a school in Le Mans. Now the students have to be placed in other schools putting a burden on already over crowded classrooms and schools and an additional stress on the families concerned.

In Lyon they burned several cars and damaged several businesses, some seriously, plus several public bus stations and other public areas.

In Marsaille the trash has accumulated into huge piles so some most accommodating individuals decided it was their duty to set them afire burning several cars and damaging other property.

The Airports are a nightmare they have them blocked right before you get to the main terminals so the people are getting out of their cabs and wheeling their luggage the rest of the way.

Mme. Lagarde said it best last night on TF1. The Unions have the right to Strike they do have the right to block, The Unions have the right to protest they do not have the right to break, destroy.

There are many people here in France who believe they have a job to do and that when they are prohibited from doing it they have lost the freedom of choice which is in their constitution.

Sarkozy has ordered three of the refineries opened several more will fallow suit.

What the ones who have caused destruction and violence don’t about their country is it takes a long time for justice to prevail but when it does it comes down like a iron hammer and for the ones wearing the masks this can be construed as terrorism.

The Real French News

A FRENCH NEWS STATION           A FRENCH NIGHTMARE

A FRENCH REALITY                           THE FRENCH STRIKES

October 19,2010

If you’re thinking about coming to France now or in the near future you better change your plans immediately.

The strikes here in France, I am an American living just outside of Paris, have turned ugly and violent with no end in sight.

The Unions started out with their magnifications in fairly orderly fashion but when they encouraged the students to participate in their activities it spiraled  out of control almost immediately. Instead of following a doctrine of this is what we believe, instead we’re going to cause havoc, disruption, destruction and raw violence. Most of these so-called students, come from the better off families of Paris, France and Europe. They’re using the excuse of the Retirement fiasco to vent their Gangster Rap inhibitions on the authorities, burning cars, destroying public property as well as beating up journalists who are in the area doing their job. This is freeing up the real Gangsters that are in the gun, drug and other illegal trades to do their deals while the police are trying to keep some type of control.

So far these strikes combined with their destruction and over all violence has cost the French society well into the millions of Euros and does not look like it’s going to stop soon.

What’s really scary is the ones that are blocking the ports and refineries causing a serious gas shortage as it drives the prices up are going to have to pay higher prices at the pump, grocery stores and taxes. What’s even scarier is that the age of  62 is not good enough they should be considering 65 and then compromise.

What will be one of the definite outcomes of this?

If Sarkozy pulls this off it will weaken the Unions but will save the French socialized system at least for now: if he loses he will not be reelected and the PS, Partie Socialist will come into power guaranteeing  inter fighting among the Party and destroying the French Socialized system as it is known today.

Stay tuned for more posts.