We experienced the pinnacle of our era, but it is now gone. Like what happened to Rome, the corrupt administration will bring this nation to an end. My condolences go out to anyone who is close to retiring and may be worried about whether their pension will be enough to pay the rising cost of living. Insane fiscal policy, poor regulatory policy, poor energy policy, and poor foreign policy
50 and early retirement. I'm very worried about the future and where we're all heading, especially in terms of money and how to get by. I'm considering making my first investment in the stock market, but how can I do so given that the market has been in a mess for the majority of the year?
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@@ChrisPatrick-q6k Just because you live longer does NOT mean you have extra years where you are healthy and able to work. And why do you think they are unsustainable? Do you think western countries like France are lacking resources? The rich in that country have more wealth than they know what to do with and pay relatively little taxes (or none at all for those that do tax evasion). All you need to finance this is to tax them just a little but NO instead we have to watch as our elderly go off to die at work while some dipshit in a mansion somewhere keeps getting richer for doing nothing of worth to society.
The French citizens have my love and respect. If only the rest of the world would stand up the way the French do. Australia put up the retirement age twice up to 70 and no one said sht!!! Vive la France
@@minhhoangnguyen9092 I'm not laughing at them,I'm laughing at the fact that nobody did anything about it,I can't feel more sorry for them than they are feelimg for themselves and their lives. Don't be too fast to judge..
Peiple are pissed off about loads of stuff and the government's are not listening to the people. Only action left is action by foot. Time to stand up UK
The economy is going downhill here too and they have squeezed us all so much through raising the interest rates. Fat, ugly politicians with fat salaries living in their own fantasy world. Power to the people. 🤠🤠
It's sad to say but governments only hear violence. During the Yellow Vests movement, Macron blocked fuel price hikes when the violence got too much. You have to scare the elites to make them give in.
You can’t tax the working people into oblivion to pay for the pensions of the constantly growing number of pensioners. By rising the pension age, you enlarge the working group and decrease the number of pensioners. In Northern European countries the pension age is 67.
@@Conservator. you can also tax the rich if that's too hard, at least don't cut taxes for the rich... like Macron has done ..he also sol our motorways away for cheap... and let total steal money from EDF and the people, by forcing them to buy back their electricity at several times the original cost There is money to be found in the world, the rich keep on showing it off so they can look cool
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 If you think that the Northern European countries are the worst than let’s just say that we have different opinions. FYI Northern European countries in general are financially very well off and also score quite high in happiness surveys.
@@Conservator. Nothing to do with a particular country but the age of retirement. It isn't because some countries set their retirement age at 67, that all countries should.
In the nineteenth century just before the formation of the LRC in 1900 ( Labour Party from 1906). After that it evaporated slowly over the following ninety seven years until Blair won the election of 1997. Not sighted since.
@@888ssss Boy you are a great person that has good will towards your neighbor!! Here is a clue to a riddle. Lets see if you can figure out what it is, and what it means. First they came for the s......
Such biased and misleading coverage: no mention of opinion polls, consistently showing over 70% opposition to Macron's pension bill, no mention of prior pension laws, one of which had already pushed out the retirement age by 2 years, etc. Listening to this (probably well paid) journalist, you would think the French just want to enjoy more leisure time... and on the mega water reservoirs, not a single mention of the rationale for opposing them!
Exactly what I thought. To all of those who are watching this, please be aware this coverage is terribly biased. It portrays french people / environmentalists as irrational people and the state as a victim when the stakes here are about a state leaning toward authoritarianism
@@falsanisienzo7416 Thanks a lot for your reply. When joining a protest means risking getting maimed, the regime can already be described as authoritarian: sadly, this regime is already past 'leaning toward'.
Respect for the French people from Russia. Here in Russia, they carried out the pension reform almost unnoticed in 2018, and small groups of protesters were simply beaten, after which the protest was dispersed and disappeared. It's nice to see on the example of France that the government, the oligarchy will not be able to break the will of the common people with batons, rubber bullets and tear gas. This will only generate more resistance from the people ✊🚩
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 This is exactly the case. Therefore, the oligarchy tries to maximize the retirement age and minimize its costs to other people, it is desirable that people do not even live to their retirement age. At the beginning of the 20th century, the greed of the tsarist oligarchy led to a revolution in 1917. I think the same thing will happen in 2024-2025....
@@Anonymous-qj3sf In the war in Ukraine, the Russian army are incinerating their dead soldiers so Putin doesn't have to pay compensation to their relatives. Somehow I think the regime prefers to keep the money for itself rather than distribute it to the people.
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 Greed is a characteristic feature not only of the Russian elite, but also of almost all of today's elites in all countries. Right now, this is happening in France, where, in addition to raising the retirement age, they have canceled all benefits for many professions. This is a characteristic feature of capitalism, when 1% of the population is profiting, getting fat and pushing around the remaining 99% of the population. There should be no such inequality. A small part of the population, the oligarchy should not dictate its conditions to workers. On the contrary, the majority of the population should make decisions and move progress in society. This is the idea of communism
@@Anonymous-qj3sf Well, in Russia if rubber bullets don't work they can always use real ones and make the person disappear if you know what I mean (NKVD/KGB).
It's not so much working two more years before retirement that has angered the French, but a general impoverishment for years. Because globalization, here as elsewhere in the West, has transferred jobs and know-how to China and elsewhere. Initially, the low cost of products imported from these countries with low paid labor masked this loss of purchasing power. But the unemployed, more and more numerous, do not contribute to the pension of the old (we have a pay-as-you-go system) and this is what causes these repeated "reforms" which do not solve anything without questioning globalization and the reindustrialization of the country. This is why this reform is the straw that broke the camel's back, among other pretexts for anger to explode, here or there, in the country. Be careful that this anger is not contagious throughout the West because what will become of funded pensions if a new stock market crash is confirmed?
Nothing wrong in France, at least not in sense out of the ordinary. The nation has seen fires, drought, Covid etc... The pension issue has brought attention to other things that were there in the background. There is Ukraine, frustration with EU and Germany. It has been a long string of things and they haven't gone away. The recent protests are about more than pensions.
Don't worry for Ukraine, the vast majority of proesters in the streets are suportive of Ukraine and would had taken the Kremlin to get Putin on a guillotine.
Fractional reserve banking made all that possible, and now that game is coming to its cyclical end as it always has done, eg monetizing debt does not make nations more prosperous in the long run!
Behind the anger, the intolerable feeling of systematic injustice. Privileges are back. Monarchy is back. So, our old spirit is back. This isn't about the reform anymore. We fight for democracy.
S.Z: “fight for democracy e “” you must be joking. Democracy has spoken is the Chambers and Constitutional rightness about the matter is under way yet people are in the street., go figure. Only When france will have a constructive and positive opposition will better time comes around. At. The moment the opposition is only about obstructing debates at best and flat no at worse. No nation can go far with that attitude in place. A bit like the nasty behaviors of Republicans at the US congress .
Thanks very much for all your support that give us more courage to stop the tyranny and it's lies, violence... AND replace à Real démocraty and à peacefully nation. Our child are very unquiet, very depressive. We never let tyranny and nazy kill the People.
About the whole pension system sustainability shtick: every year, public servants working under the prime minister authority write a report on this very subject. Their latest report explicitely concludes that the system is self sustaining up to 2070 even under the worst hypotheses. But yeah, journalism is hard.
Too right. It took me two seconds to grasp your point. I am not even privately educated. God knows how much quicker I might have been if I was so lucky!
It’s more than the pensions. It’s the whole system governed by a few to the benefits of a very few. This is not only in France but pretty much every where. People need to wake up and take their rights back
Vincent: this report might not be so accurate and overall way too optimistic. The future is pretty uncertain , writing sustainability until 2070 is to me foolish as we can’t really know about ten years down the road.
The reservoir contestation is not led by ecologist against farmers but by some farmers and ecologist against some other farmers (interested in these tanks). Please stop fake news. Get informed ! Thanks !
Bonjour. Talking about human rights... We still have some kind of civil protections, here. Forget the covid épisodes, it's long forgotten, worldwide or nearly. We ain't live in North Corea... But, as you mention it : wait for those laws that are being presented. One of the most explosive subject, with the far right awating embushed: immigration... Not sure the King (of England) might find a safe moment to visit Versailles before we change, democraticly, of Président ...
This is what happens when we care about what we want for our kids, next generations, what we want future to be like, when we defend our quality of life and demand to know where is the money going, and care about how can we stop fraud and system corruption…
A blow against one is a blow against all! There is organic solidarity between all peoples; once we realise this we will be unstoppable. A new world is possible, a world where we can turn everything used against us on its head and make it our own. We could be free, if we so choose. All power to the French workers.
Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes! Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Beyond the barricade Is there a world you long to see? Then join in the fight That will give you the right to be free! Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes! Will you give all you can give So that our banner may advance Some will fall and some will live Will you stand up and take your chance? The blood of the martyrs Will water the meadows of France! Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes! (Do you hear the people sing, Les Miserable)
In France when people are upset they revolt and go full fledge demonstration. The denial of democracy people had after Brexit in UK would have triggered a revolution here. But for UK, people SKU and let the elite keep on business as usual...
The protests aren't just about pensions - it's the general failing of the French economy due to the Ukraine war and the self-harming sanctions. Macron is just incompetent - how to get the bad captain off the bridge is the problem.
It's not just about pensions. This is about the government's boot on everyone's neck. When will the British wake up? And people of USA? And Macron should consider himself lucky if he ends up like Napoleon and not like Louis XVI.
It misses on 2 major things : Macron has cut a lot of taxes those year (especially on the most wealthy) and is trying to gain the money back on the people, and he passed that law the sneakiest way possible by using not one but two articles of the constitution in the most authoritarian way. I recommand watching the videos of the deputies singing La Marseillaise at parliament this week
Bonjour Lizzie. You are so right on this, although you forgot, or haven't heard of, that he diminished the APL that helps pay the rent at the same time he "abolished" l'ISF. Hence his nickname : l'ami des riches... Last but not least, the next subject is going to be quite "unwelcomed" too : immigration...
@@DH007-w2d I haven't forgotten about it, I just didn't want to info dump more than necessary. The current situation is a consequence of Macron slowly attacking the healthcare system, social security, and else, plus pratically ignoring the gilet jaune movement back before covid. Now, people are dealing with inflation that suddenly added up (France didn't have it as bad as the other EU countries for some time, especially before the 2022 elections). I may add that he didn't raise the minimum salary up according to the inflation, but only much lower. The current political climate is also a big thing : by creating his party, Macron destroyed the moderate right and left parties, building instead an extra liberal party, that doesn't do well in a fundamentaly socialist country. The left was completely scattered in the previous elections, and the first round resulted in Macron facing against the far right party. Most people decided to vote for Macron at second round, again, to block the far right. A lot of people decided for abstention instead, as a form of protest. But then, when the parliament elections came a few months later, the left gathered a coalition in trying to gain majority at parliament and chose the next prime minister, which failed, but they got quite some seats in the process. The populists gained quite a few of those too : as a result, Macron only got a relative majority for his party, thus having to compromise to get his laws passed. He allied himself with the relatively moderate right so far, LR, but when it came to the pension bill, a lot of protests started in the country. A lot of the LR deputies started getting scared and didn't want to vote the bill anymore. While Macron pretended he wouldn't use article 49.3 to pass the bill, when he realised he wouldn't get the votes, he waited last minute until letting his prime minister announce it at parliament. Right after, undeclared protests started forming across the country, and the heat went up. Macron is trying to blame the left for cutting short to the debate and being undemocratic, opening the door to the far right, and the mainstream media (financed by millionaires) has been demonizing the left by treating them as extremes no better than the far right.
@@lizziemallow eh bien. You are French, Lizzie or you keep yourself well informed. One does not have much to add, except about the socialist bit. It could be if every adult would bother vote. It could be if we had a biparty assemblée nationale (forget about the Sénat). Also, I do remember having a visit from a would be deputy, the first time Macron was elected. She told me he would fasten the reformative movement by using decrees. Now, he got reelected, with not much to loose... Until one or several of our young die.
Lizzie: deputies who by essence only blocked everything and said no to all Gov proposal just for the sake of saying no. Destructive opposition at its best. No one can be proud of such stupidity in the Chambers. The winner of all this nonsense will be Marin Lepen and her party. Winter is coming
Every time you build a dam and restrict water flow you cut off breeding routes for fish, if fish can't migrate upstream to breed the they can't reproduce which leads to a loss of fish stock .
From France: we are fed up with French governance and so called democracy that impacts middle class and poorest while bourgeoisie is thriving more than ever, while not acting to adapt and prepare country and partners for climate change and ecological challenges coming or already here. WE DONT WANT THEIR WORLD ANYMORE
What’s going on in France? Something that the British, Americans and many others don’t have the courage to do….standing up for their rights and keeping their government in check. A government is ruled by the people, not the other way around. I hope that this continues and the French stick this out.
I'm sure it's not a problem of fear or courage, the difference is mostly cultural. We are lucky in France to have this culture of protest, which has enabled us to obtain social gains throughout our contemporary history. But anger is also present in Anglo-Saxon countries and I'm sure that one day it will explode, when the vase overflows.
@@guillaume5156 We in America had a culture of protest and standing up for our rights through the labor movement. It has just been systematically suppressed by the government and big corporations for the past few decades.
For what happened and happening in the UK ? Seen from here, ain't paradise, up there, neither... For me, who spent almost a decade in London, I kind of sense a winter of displeasure in the Kingdom of Denmark...
To add to my prior comment: why don't the two journalists (the C4 presenter and the head of the Paris bureau at The Economist) disclose their pay and pension package? Then we can compare them to the projected pension a French bin man will receive when reaching the age of 62 or 64...
God how i wish sometimes that us swedes could whip up a good protest like the french. It feels like every protest is the start of a revolution, no matter the reason. Wasn't there even a "Don't touch my prostitute"- movement way back?
Think of the anger, a couple of years back, when Boris tried to shut down parliament. In any true democracy we expect legislation to be voted on, not just enacted by presidential decree. The French need to get rid of Herr Macron, who clearly wants dictatorial power.
My dear mum have been a waitress until the honorable age of 60ish. Part-time, then only a few hours to end up a very long career. She gets 900€ a month as retirement pension... Silly, inni't ?
@@DH007-w2d same for my uncle, my dad worked since 15 and doctor made hime stopped at 60 for parkinson, and because he was missing one trimestre, he had to wait till 62 but died at 61
@@Plumduff3303 so, how do you see it, that Brexthing ? Apart from having to wait ages when, if, you feel like crossing the Channel ? For me, it's a pity as many of us had been able to come to the Uk for a few months, to work mainly in the catering and learn how to speak English, really. I call myself lucky as we, our youth, can't do it, or not as easily as beforehand... Salut.
Meanwhile they are talking about raising the retirement age in Germany to 70 and work 6 instead of 5 days a week… but no one cares here in Germany. I wish we had more younger people here or a fighter spirit in general. Considering our history it’s shocking me that majority of citizens listen to the government like it’s their closest friend 💔
This mans country is falling apart and his own countrymen are screaming , no more. Yet he continues the barage on his fellow frenchmen. He even adds threats, while he vacations. What is going to take, the tower come tumbling down?
‘There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all !’ - Mario Savio
En tant que libéral russe qui soutient les droits des personnes LGBTQ+, je suis solidaire des travailleurs français qui protestent contre la réforme des retraites. Tout le monde devrait avoir le droit de prendre sa retraite à un âge raisonnable et de vivre dans la dignité. Les gouvernements doivent prendre en compte les besoins de leurs citoyens et écouter leurs préoccupations. #GiletsJaunes #France #Retraites
This reportage is extremely biased against the people and environmentalists. It’s the big farming companies, not mere farmers, that want the water basins to be built (when the GIEC has explicitly recommended not to do it anymore). The people protesting there were met with unprecedented violence. Two people are in coma, a few people have critical wounds in vital organs. Many were grossly disfigured and many had their legs pierced by explosive engines (classified as warfare weapons in international standards). 200 people were hurt. The police even blocked the medics from accessing the scene and helping people that were bleeding due to police violence. And people are angry at Macron, not because the French are irrational or spoiled, but because he has made an extensive use of the already borderline non-democratic executive powers that the constitution grants him independently from the explosive political context. When 2,5 millions persons went in the streets to oppose themselves to the increasing authoritarianism shown by the government, Macron only responded with disdain, saying that the people were only dangerous left radicals that only wanted to tackle down the Republic. The police, in recent days, has beaten up peaceful protesters, fined people for no other reasons than being in the street (not even protesting), rapes were even reported by female protesters who suffered from “vaginal search” from male policemen. Many testimonies of sexual harassment and sexual attacks were reported.
Just want to point out, if all the parliament members and the politicians would like to reform their salaries and benefits and pensions and allowances schemes first, if all the politicians would like to reform how they have wasted the general public budgets and government fund budgets and social insurance fund budgets so far, if all the politicians would like to cut and to freeze their large pay and expenses raising nearly annually, then the public will be much more convinced. It's not only to the people in France but also to the people in other countries.
Yeap but, are you taxed at the same level as the French? I.e, 38.3% just for financing pensions and healthcare, then additional taxes comes on top to make a total of 45%to85% taxes depending on your revenue levels. Then, how long do you have to finance your pensions for? In France it's 43years for a full pension. This age limit is just to protect the workers whom started at 18years or younger (meaning poorest workers with no qualifications that tends to do hard and dirty jobs). If you have studied, you will still need to have paid the 43 years of pension taxes, meaning if you start working at 23yo you can only go to retirement at 66...
Are they protesting because of extending their retirement age? I think It's not all. Some other reasons exist.. plz teach me if someone knows that. - I can't understand this video, I can understand only half of this video becuz english is not my first language. Sorry.
They are angry over COVID lockdowns, climate change taxes, high inflation, a housing crisis, mass immigration, and now they have to work 2 more years to get their pension. Enough is.enough!
Brazil lost two billion dollars on their olympics. Paris should say, "Hey, we cannot afford the Olympics. Let another country already set up for the Olympics (Athens, Rio, Etc.) take the Olympics instead."
It's funny the way things happen. I don't know how old he is but. After President Macron's term is over he will be retired. You people should make him wait tables until he is 66.
We experienced the pinnacle of our era, but it is now gone. Like what happened to Rome, the corrupt administration will bring this nation to an end. My condolences go out to anyone who is close to retiring and may be worried about whether their pension will be enough to pay the rising cost of living. Insane fiscal policy, poor regulatory policy, poor energy policy, and poor foreign policy
50 and early retirement. I'm very worried about the future and where we're all heading, especially in terms of money and how to get by. I'm considering making my first investment in the stock market, but how can I do so given that the market has been in a mess for the majority of the year?
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Viva La France, a nation of people with backbone.
*Vive
Thank you France, keep it up, and I hope the rest of the world joins you soon
Thank you for your support. Don’t forget, when a law is unfair you MUST disobey !
j'espère!
For what, unsustainable pensions? Live longer work longer,. it's very simple.
@@ChrisPatrick-q6k Just because you live longer does NOT mean you have extra years where you are healthy and able to work. And why do you think they are unsustainable? Do you think western countries like France are lacking resources? The rich in that country have more wealth than they know what to do with and pay relatively little taxes (or none at all for those that do tax evasion). All you need to finance this is to tax them just a little but NO instead we have to watch as our elderly go off to die at work while some dipshit in a mansion somewhere keeps getting richer for doing nothing of worth to society.
The French citizens have my love and respect. If only the rest of the world would stand up the way the French do. Australia put up the retirement age twice up to 70 and no one said sht!!!
Vive la France
Loool you guys be working all the way to 70 ☺😁sorry..but thats insane hahahaha
@@emilianozapata2530 “ i laughed at other ppl suffering, wow how cool is that “ 🤷♂️
WTF 70? Most people can't even live that long.
@@minhhoangnguyen9092 I'm not laughing at them,I'm laughing at the fact that nobody did anything about it,I can't feel more sorry for them than they are feelimg for themselves and their lives.
Don't be too fast to judge..
Let us think about, no pension for Trudeaus, saddle bagger clan!
Since the Hong Kong protests no governments listen. They just sit it out. Unfortunately this is the only way. Give it to them France
Do you know 50 cent?
@@eightiesmusic1984 good rapper
WEF puppets everywhere.
Honk Kong protest 🤡
Peiple are pissed off about loads of stuff and the government's are not listening to the people. Only action left is action by foot. Time to stand up UK
The economy is going downhill here too and they have squeezed us all so much through raising the interest rates.
Fat, ugly politicians with fat salaries living in their own fantasy world. Power to the people. 🤠🤠
It's sad to say but governments only hear violence. During the Yellow Vests movement, Macron blocked fuel price hikes when the violence got too much. You have to scare the elites to make them give in.
in France, GOVERNMENT should remember that the French beheaded the king with a guillotine, it still RESONATES
When you steal hundreds of thousands of euros from the peasants, why should they roll over and say Merci Mon President?
You can’t tax the working people into oblivion to pay for the pensions of the constantly growing number of pensioners.
By rising the pension age, you enlarge the working group and decrease the number of pensioners.
In Northern European countries the pension age is 67.
@@Conservator. you can also tax the rich
if that's too hard, at least don't cut taxes for the rich... like Macron has done
..he also sol our motorways away for cheap... and let total steal money from EDF and the people, by forcing them to buy back their electricity at several times the original cost
There is money to be found in the world, the rich keep on showing it off so they can look cool
@@Conservator. If you allow the worst examples to be your benchmark, then you'll accept anything..
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 If you think that the Northern European countries are the worst than let’s just say that we have different opinions.
FYI Northern European countries in general are financially very well off and also score quite high in happiness surveys.
@@Conservator. Nothing to do with a particular country but the age of retirement. It isn't because some countries set their retirement age at 67, that all countries should.
Where is Britain’s anger?
Good question
its down to land owners, property owners, landlords and those with children to get angry. me, i could not care less if you lose it all. lol.
In the nineteenth century just before the formation of the LRC in 1900 ( Labour Party from 1906). After that it evaporated slowly over the following ninety seven years until Blair won the election of 1997. Not sighted since.
@@888ssss Boy you are a great person that has good will towards your neighbor!! Here is a clue to a riddle. Lets see if you can figure out what it is, and what it means. First they came for the s......
@@jowhite8446 sorry buddy but my generation dont have any skin in the boomerville.
Such biased and misleading coverage: no mention of opinion polls, consistently showing over 70% opposition to Macron's pension bill, no mention of prior pension laws, one of which had already pushed out the retirement age by 2 years, etc. Listening to this (probably well paid) journalist, you would think the French just want to enjoy more leisure time... and on the mega water reservoirs, not a single mention of the rationale for opposing them!
Exactly what I thought. To all of those who are watching this, please be aware this coverage is terribly biased.
It portrays french people / environmentalists as irrational people and the state as a victim when the stakes here are about a state leaning toward authoritarianism
France has way to much leisure, stop being so lazy
@@falsanisienzo7416 Thanks a lot for your reply. When joining a protest means risking getting maimed, the regime can already be described as authoritarian: sadly, this regime is already past 'leaning toward'.
Respect for the French people from Russia. Here in Russia, they carried out the pension reform almost unnoticed in 2018, and small groups of protesters were simply beaten, after which the protest was dispersed and disappeared. It's nice to see on the example of France that the government, the oligarchy will not be able to break the will of the common people with batons, rubber bullets and tear gas. This will only generate more resistance from the people ✊🚩
With the low life expectancy in Russia, particularly for men, they can't collect their pension for long. 😁
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 This is exactly the case. Therefore, the oligarchy tries to maximize the retirement age and minimize its costs to other people, it is desirable that people do not even live to their retirement age. At the beginning of the 20th century, the greed of the tsarist oligarchy led to a revolution in 1917. I think the same thing will happen in 2024-2025....
@@Anonymous-qj3sf In the war in Ukraine, the Russian army are incinerating their dead soldiers so Putin doesn't have to pay compensation to their relatives. Somehow I think the regime prefers to keep the money for itself rather than distribute it to the people.
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 Greed is a characteristic feature not only of the Russian elite, but also of almost all of today's elites in all countries. Right now, this is happening in France, where, in addition to raising the retirement age, they have canceled all benefits for many professions. This is a characteristic feature of capitalism, when 1% of the population is profiting, getting fat and pushing around the remaining 99% of the population. There should be no such inequality. A small part of the population, the oligarchy should not dictate its conditions to workers. On the contrary, the majority of the population should make decisions and move progress in society. This is the idea of communism
@@Anonymous-qj3sf Well, in Russia if rubber bullets don't work they can always use real ones and make the person disappear if you know what I mean (NKVD/KGB).
All these WEF agents need removing Trudeau, Macron, Sunak et al
❤🇫🇷 continue to stand up for what you believe in
It's not so much working two more years before retirement that has angered the French, but a general impoverishment for years.
Because globalization, here as elsewhere in the West, has transferred jobs and know-how to China and elsewhere.
Initially, the low cost of products imported from these countries with low paid labor masked this loss of purchasing power.
But the unemployed, more and more numerous, do not contribute to the pension of the old (we have a pay-as-you-go system) and this is what causes these repeated "reforms" which do not solve anything without questioning globalization and the reindustrialization of the country.
This is why this reform is the straw that broke the camel's back, among other pretexts for anger to explode, here or there, in the country.
Be careful that this anger is not contagious throughout the West because what will become of funded pensions if a new stock market crash is confirmed?
Thanks! Your comment is so helpful. I can understand more about these protests
Nothing wrong in France, at least not in sense out of the ordinary. The nation has seen fires, drought, Covid etc... The pension issue has brought attention to other things that were there in the background. There is Ukraine, frustration with EU and Germany.
It has been a long string of things and they haven't gone away. The recent protests are about more than pensions.
Don't worry for Ukraine, the vast majority of proesters in the streets are suportive of Ukraine and would had taken the Kremlin to get Putin on a guillotine.
Time to say NO to WEF boys.
“The many people” are for the French protests-not for raising the retirement age.
Fractional reserve banking made all that possible, and now that game is coming to its cyclical end as it always has done, eg monetizing debt does not make nations more prosperous in the long run!
Behind the anger, the intolerable feeling of systematic injustice. Privileges are back. Monarchy is back. So, our old spirit is back. This isn't about the reform anymore. We fight for democracy.
S.Z: “fight for democracy e “” you must be joking. Democracy has spoken is the Chambers and Constitutional rightness about the matter is under way yet people are in the street., go figure.
Only When france will have a constructive and positive opposition will better time comes around. At. The moment the opposition is only about obstructing debates at best and flat no at worse. No nation can go far with that attitude in place. A bit like the nasty behaviors of Republicans at the US congress .
Thanks very much for all your support that give us more courage to stop the tyranny and it's lies, violence... AND replace à Real démocraty and à peacefully nation. Our child are very unquiet, very depressive. We never let tyranny and nazy kill the People.
Faced with such glorious belligerence, the legislation being forced through seems like-4-like. vive la Francais!!
Where are the human rights west countries????? It look like middle East !!!!
Why taxing the wealth and developing new industries hasn't been presented as an option in all these debates?
Because all systems set up for the wealthy. They run the countries.
About the whole pension system sustainability shtick: every year, public servants working under the prime minister authority write a report on this very subject. Their latest report explicitely concludes that the system is self sustaining up to 2070 even under the worst hypotheses. But yeah, journalism is hard.
Too right. It took me two seconds to grasp your point. I am not even privately educated. God knows how much quicker I might have been if I was so lucky!
It’s more than the pensions. It’s the whole system governed by a few to the benefits of a very few. This is not only in France but pretty much every where. People need to wake up and take their rights back
Vincent: this report might not be so accurate and overall way too optimistic. The future is pretty uncertain , writing sustainability until 2070 is to me foolish as we can’t really know about ten years down the road.
The reservoir contestation is not led by ecologist against farmers but by some farmers and ecologist against some other farmers (interested in these tanks). Please stop fake news. Get informed ! Thanks !
Français tu es incroyable!
Vive la France!
But what is going on with human rights in France??? Is it DEMOCRACY????
Bonjour. Talking about human rights... We still have some kind of civil protections, here. Forget the covid épisodes, it's long forgotten, worldwide or nearly. We ain't live in North Corea... But, as you mention it : wait for those laws that are being presented. One of the most explosive subject, with the far right awating embushed: immigration... Not sure the King (of England) might find a safe moment to visit Versailles before we change, democraticly, of Président ...
This is what happens when we care about what we want for our kids, next generations, what we want future to be like, when we defend our quality of life and demand to know where is the money going, and care about how can we stop fraud and system corruption…
So there should be and the UK should do the same
I have read that so many times this last few days... what are we waiting for then?
If it wasn’t for violence the French would still have a king.
Marie A did enjoy good cake!😅
A blow against one is a blow against all! There is organic solidarity between all peoples; once we realise this we will be unstoppable. A new world is possible, a world where we can turn everything used against us on its head and make it our own. We could be free, if we so choose. All power to the French workers.
They criticize the citizens violence and overlook the French government, did you watch their coverage for Iran protest 😂😂😂😂
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
(Do you hear the people sing, Les Miserable)
It's only chapter 2 of reservoirs contestation nothing to see with pension. Just french people love fight for important things 🇨🇵💪🔥
uknews good at reporting whats happening in france, but dont like telling you about the news in uk
In France when people are upset they revolt and go full fledge demonstration. The denial of democracy people had after Brexit in UK would have triggered a revolution here. But for UK, people SKU and let the elite keep on business as usual...
The protests aren't just about pensions - it's the general failing of the French economy due to the Ukraine war and the self-harming sanctions. Macron is just incompetent - how to get the bad captain off the bridge is the problem.
Stand up little Frenchman❗Fight back❗For Freedom❗
"When the government fear the people is democracy. When the people are afraid of their government is tyranny". T.J.
Who is T. J. ?
@@guillaume5156 Thomas Jefferson (The third president of U.S.)
@@tashalorm4313 merci l'ami :)
@@guillaume5156 Tous mes plasirs!
We lost billions of our money we had already paid in when we lost 8 yrs pension !
It's not just about pensions. This is about the government's boot on everyone's neck. When will the British wake up? And people of USA? And Macron should consider himself lucky if he ends up like Napoleon and not like Louis XVI.
It misses on 2 major things : Macron has cut a lot of taxes those year (especially on the most wealthy) and is trying to gain the money back on the people, and he passed that law the sneakiest way possible by using not one but two articles of the constitution in the most authoritarian way. I recommand watching the videos of the deputies singing La Marseillaise at parliament this week
Bonjour Lizzie. You are so right on this, although you forgot, or haven't heard of, that he diminished the APL that helps pay the rent at the same time he "abolished" l'ISF. Hence his nickname : l'ami des riches... Last but not least, the next subject is going to be quite "unwelcomed" too : immigration...
@@DH007-w2d I haven't forgotten about it, I just didn't want to info dump more than necessary. The current situation is a consequence of Macron slowly attacking the healthcare system, social security, and else, plus pratically ignoring the gilet jaune movement back before covid. Now, people are dealing with inflation that suddenly added up (France didn't have it as bad as the other EU countries for some time, especially before the 2022 elections). I may add that he didn't raise the minimum salary up according to the inflation, but only much lower.
The current political climate is also a big thing : by creating his party, Macron destroyed the moderate right and left parties, building instead an extra liberal party, that doesn't do well in a fundamentaly socialist country. The left was completely scattered in the previous elections, and the first round resulted in Macron facing against the far right party. Most people decided to vote for Macron at second round, again, to block the far right. A lot of people decided for abstention instead, as a form of protest. But then, when the parliament elections came a few months later, the left gathered a coalition in trying to gain majority at parliament and chose the next prime minister, which failed, but they got quite some seats in the process. The populists gained quite a few of those too : as a result, Macron only got a relative majority for his party, thus having to compromise to get his laws passed. He allied himself with the relatively moderate right so far, LR, but when it came to the pension bill, a lot of protests started in the country. A lot of the LR deputies started getting scared and didn't want to vote the bill anymore. While Macron pretended he wouldn't use article 49.3 to pass the bill, when he realised he wouldn't get the votes, he waited last minute until letting his prime minister announce it at parliament. Right after, undeclared protests started forming across the country, and the heat went up.
Macron is trying to blame the left for cutting short to the debate and being undemocratic, opening the door to the far right, and the mainstream media (financed by millionaires) has been demonizing the left by treating them as extremes no better than the far right.
@@lizziemallow eh bien. You are French, Lizzie or you keep yourself well informed. One does not have much to add, except about the socialist bit. It could be if every adult would bother vote. It could be if we had a biparty assemblée nationale (forget about the Sénat). Also, I do remember having a visit from a would be deputy, the first time Macron was elected. She told me he would fasten the reformative movement by using decrees. Now, he got reelected, with not much to loose... Until one or several of our young die.
Lizzie: deputies who by essence only blocked everything and said no to all Gov proposal just for the sake of saying no. Destructive opposition at its best. No one can be proud of such stupidity in the Chambers. The winner of all this nonsense will be Marin Lepen and her party. Winter is coming
@@DH007-w2d Démasquée, en effet ^^
Protest’s not televised surprise surprise
Every time you build a dam and restrict water flow you cut off breeding routes for fish, if fish can't migrate upstream to breed the they can't reproduce which leads to a loss of fish stock .
Fair play to the French when they get pushed too far they really know how to protest but then I've always said the French are revolting 😂😂😂
This is going to keep happening until
The world is sick and tired of incompetent governments. Brace for more protests in more countries. Enough is enough.
From France: we are fed up with French governance and so called democracy that impacts middle class and poorest while bourgeoisie is thriving more than ever, while not acting to adapt and prepare country and partners for climate change and ecological challenges coming or already here.
WE DONT WANT THEIR WORLD ANYMORE
What’s going on in France? Something that the British, Americans and many others don’t have the courage to do….standing up for their rights and keeping their government in check. A government is ruled by the people, not the other way around. I hope that this continues and the French stick this out.
I'm sure it's not a problem of fear or courage, the difference is mostly cultural. We are lucky in France to have this culture of protest, which has enabled us to obtain social gains throughout our contemporary history. But anger is also present in Anglo-Saxon countries and I'm sure that one day it will explode, when the vase overflows.
All Anglophones are cowards. This is coming from a Canadian. We need to take some notes from the French.
@@guillaume5156 We in America had a culture of protest and standing up for our rights through the labor movement. It has just been systematically suppressed by the government and big corporations for the past few decades.
Thought channel four would blame Brexit
For what happened and happening in the UK ? Seen from here, ain't paradise, up there, neither... For me, who spent almost a decade in London, I kind of sense a winter of displeasure in the Kingdom of Denmark...
The longer you work the longer the government can keep taxing you remember the government like making money off you not spending the money on you
To add to my prior comment: why don't the two journalists (the C4 presenter and the head of the Paris bureau at The Economist) disclose their pay and pension package? Then we can compare them to the projected pension a French bin man will receive when reaching the age of 62 or 64...
God how i wish sometimes that us swedes could whip up a good protest like the french. It feels like every protest is the start of a revolution, no matter the reason.
Wasn't there even a "Don't touch my prostitute"- movement way back?
😂
LoL
Think of the anger, a couple of years back, when Boris tried to shut down parliament. In any true democracy we expect legislation to be voted on, not just enacted by presidential decree. The French need to get rid of Herr Macron, who clearly wants dictatorial power.
@David: knows nothing yet talk . Only nonsense comes out , of course.
@@franciscouderq1100 Oh, I've upset one of Macron's fanboys.
how does she know what the french people are thinking?
The rising inflation that is ruining many people is also behind the ANGER
Wait Where's Newman? She would LOVE reporting on her two favourite things. A male leader AND somewhere not in the UK.. BOTH in a negative light 😅
Looks like old Netanyahou is screwed, too!!😅😅😅
it doesn't matter if the population is ageing most of the works are not suitable for any human body when you come to a certain age
My dear mum have been a waitress until the honorable age of 60ish. Part-time, then only a few hours to end up a very long career. She gets 900€ a month as retirement pension... Silly, inni't ?
@@DH007-w2d same for my uncle, my dad worked since 15 and doctor made hime stopped at 60 for parkinson, and because he was missing one trimestre, he had to wait till 62 but died at 61
*King Charles* "why is there's smoke coming from your oven Macron??"
*Macron* "nooooh! That's just steam! From the steamed riot burgers we're having!"
I want King Emmanuelle!!!😅
Perhaps they don't like Napoleon, sorry Macron
Who likes Napoléon ? Pas moi, non. When we talk about a tyran, here, we mention Napoléon, not Louis XVI...
It's not only about the two year increase b4 retirement. It's about their govts authoritarian persona ....
Ch 4 pulling their hair out right now
vive la france courage et restez courageux pour la victoire sur stupide monstre Macron 🇫🇷💪🐔
As brits when we get our pension aged raised to 68 by the tory toffs we rattle our tea cups and say oh dear me really quietly
Bonjour Plum. Weren't you busy brexiting ? One guesses it's how gvts do things. Like magic.
same thing in Sweden, business as usual
@@DH007-w2d I was no brexiteer old chap
@@Plumduff3303 so, how do you see it, that Brexthing ? Apart from having to wait ages when, if, you feel like crossing the Channel ? For me, it's a pity as many of us had been able to come to the Uk for a few months, to work mainly in the catering and learn how to speak English, really. I call myself lucky as we, our youth, can't do it, or not as easily as beforehand... Salut.
@@DH007-w2d brexit is an absolute disaster 😳
Putin is smiling in Moscow 😂😂
The French government actions shows desperation to me.
French Gov communication is pretty catastrophic .and most opposition really stubborn and obstructive all the way.
Meanwhile they are talking about raising the retirement age in Germany to 70 and work 6 instead of 5 days a week… but no one cares here in Germany.
I wish we had more younger people here or a fighter spirit in general.
Considering our history it’s shocking me that majority of citizens listen to the government like it’s their closest friend 💔
It's happening to people all around the world.
there is money for Ukrainians, but no money for the French, Germans, British cc
This mans country is falling apart and his own countrymen are screaming , no more. Yet he continues the barage on his fellow frenchmen. He even adds threats, while he vacations. What is going to take, the tower come tumbling down?
souled out corporate M$M presstitutes continue to ignore the ongoing WEF pogrom
How about the inequality between the rich and poor. The Public aren’t stupid.
Is raising the pension age, a way for the French government to collect extra tax to pay for the migrants?
Peaceful peaople 😂😂😂😂😂 >
#WeNeedToHelpTheFrenchAndEurope #VancouverBC #Rolly
Try closing the borders and see if the mood improves
‘There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all !’ - Mario Savio
Viva La France! Viva le peuple francais!
VivE is the correct form
En tant que libéral russe qui soutient les droits des personnes LGBTQ+, je suis solidaire des travailleurs français qui protestent contre la réforme des retraites. Tout le monde devrait avoir le droit de prendre sa retraite à un âge raisonnable et de vivre dans la dignité. Les gouvernements doivent prendre en compte les besoins de leurs citoyens et écouter leurs préoccupations. #GiletsJaunes #France #Retraites
Ты шерсть собачья , а не россиянин)
Рагуль , ты тут всё собрал , РФ, ЛГБТ , либералов и протесты ))клоуны
K. Just stop the "I'm such a virtuous person", bullshit.🙄
Maybe Queen Camilla and Princess Brigitte could mediate and conciliate??😅
Very informative and interesting news coverage.
This reportage is extremely biased against the people and environmentalists. It’s the big farming companies, not mere farmers, that want the water basins to be built (when the GIEC has explicitly recommended not to do it anymore). The people protesting there were met with unprecedented violence. Two people are in coma, a few people have critical wounds in vital organs. Many were grossly disfigured and many had their legs pierced by explosive engines (classified as warfare weapons in international standards). 200 people were hurt. The police even blocked the medics from accessing the scene and helping people that were bleeding due to police violence.
And people are angry at Macron, not because the French are irrational or spoiled, but because he has made an extensive use of the already borderline non-democratic executive powers that the constitution grants him independently from the explosive political context. When 2,5 millions persons went in the streets to oppose themselves to the increasing authoritarianism shown by the government, Macron only responded with disdain, saying that the people were only dangerous left radicals that only wanted to tackle down the Republic. The police, in recent days, has beaten up peaceful protesters, fined people for no other reasons than being in the street (not even protesting), rapes were even reported by female protesters who suffered from “vaginal search” from male policemen. Many testimonies of sexual harassment and sexual attacks were reported.
Mr. Macrone. Go. Out..thé only. Solution.
Is the income disparity between classes in France as great as it is in the United States?
Who behind the anger in france ? Macron and France goverment...
Just want to point out, if all the parliament members and the politicians would like to reform their salaries and benefits and pensions and allowances schemes first, if all the politicians would like to reform how they have wasted the general public budgets and government fund budgets and social insurance fund budgets so far, if all the politicians would like to cut and to freeze their large pay and expenses raising nearly annually, then the public will be much more convinced. It's not only to the people in France but also to the people in other countries.
Revolution rising again
People want to help France. Who has the knowledge how to take a dark magic ghost out of a living body?
Support for the working-class French!
In Canada retirement is 65
Yeap but, are you taxed at the same level as the French?
I.e, 38.3% just for financing pensions and healthcare, then additional taxes comes on top to make a total of 45%to85% taxes depending on your revenue levels.
Then, how long do you have to finance your pensions for? In France it's 43years for a full pension. This age limit is just to protect the workers whom started at 18years or younger (meaning poorest workers with no qualifications that tends to do hard and dirty jobs).
If you have studied, you will still need to have paid the 43 years of pension taxes, meaning if you start working at 23yo you can only go to retirement at 66...
The reform was not democratically enacted, no parliamentary vote. It’s easy to why people would be unhappy with behaviour like this.
I still see some flaws as far as women as concerned… among a few other things which can be reworked out soon.
Are you talking about retirement age (to access superannuation) or to access the Government's Age Pension (there is a different).
Shocked at the violence because it's not affecting you. Thank god some people are awake. Don't forget to say everyone is racist and far right.
La France c'est moi tout seul !!! Le peuple n'a rien à dire !!! Tous mes larbins me suivent... C'est la devise d'un dictateur. 😢
French protests Macron Then they elect him again ...
Are they protesting because of extending their retirement age? I think It's not all. Some other reasons exist.. plz teach me if someone knows that.
- I can't understand this video, I can understand only half of this video becuz english is not my first language. Sorry.
They are angry over COVID lockdowns, climate change taxes, high inflation, a housing crisis, mass immigration, and now they have to work 2 more years to get their pension. Enough is.enough!
@@Paulco67 not the immigration part tho
as Brazilian you called our farming system unsustainable bruh French pension system is really unsustainable.
Yeah
Nonsense, the pension system has plenty of money in it. Do your research
Brazil lost two billion dollars on their olympics. Paris should say, "Hey, we cannot afford the Olympics. Let another country already set up for the Olympics (Athens, Rio, Etc.) take the Olympics instead."
It's funny the way things happen. I don't know how old he is but. After President Macron's term is over he will be retired. You people should make him wait tables until he is 66.
Inimesed ei taha tööd teha ja see on õige ka,parem on laiselda
Where's democracy? Human rights?
In my country 🇺🇸 arson , LET ALONE ARSON OF POLICE VEHICLES IS S FELONY!
France has been on fire since 1789
Let's go usa!!
Protesting about weather? I thought only Americans did the rain dance.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money