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Thats why they get the good stuff. Gotta keep the leaders honest with a few riots and manure deliveries to their homes.
I'd use a past tense here. Recent (20y) riots have not stopped the recent governments from trying to kill the french supportive state.
They haven't stopped it YET. The unrest is ongoing.
Public services have been crapified for 20 years. The whole retirement age? The money put aside for the boomer retirement transition was used for corporate subsidies. The money saved by making the poorer work longer is less than tax breaks given to the top deciles. Each time a public service earns money it is given to friends (Vinci is a big one) in the private market. High value medical acts are moved to private hospitals who don't offer the lower value ones. Parking spaces, highways, state lottery... All given away. Capped electricity contract is being shut down slowly as EDF is being forced to sell energy at loss to pseudo competitors that only sell it at market price to the same customers. Government employees (except for the top one of course) have had their pay stalled for 15(?) Years leading to a current crisis where only the worst want to work as teachers, police etc.
And the last riot is "only" a George Floyd moment, not the first, against a police which has become more violent for 20 years, 7/10 of which votes for a fascist party (literally founded by a former Waffen SS), that cover their tracks by issuing false reports and having an audit service which is internal only.
So... Hopefully the trend will reverse but the outlook for France is currently bleak.
For more data on police killings:
https://bastamag.net/webdocs/police/
Hell yeah!
Lower taxes, subsidies, avoiding government prices hikes, public policy regarding police action - all sorts of things - this article explains it pretty well
https://time.com/5476534/french-protests-successful-macron/?amp=true
You left out the higher retirement age.
From 62 to 64, and they rioted. For comparison Canada retirement age is 65 and many is states is 67. Your statement implies that the French retirement age is an outlier and it's really not.
There's an army of institutions and economists who reviewed the issue over and over with 1 conclusion: there were many different solutions, raising the retirement age was ONE of them. So this was not necessary. This was a choice.
The system is a "simple" in/out equation. Twice in the past years this government has reduced the money in. Now they tell everyone they "saved" the system and there was no other solution. That's all BS.
And by the way: looks like they couldn't even do their math properly, because the system will still run a deficit by 2030. They counted some revenue twice. So much for "the experts"...
Rioting didn't help to stop that.
If you're talking about the recent policy, the protests did not fix that. The president ignored public opinion, the labor unions, and then ignored Parliament, who voted against the measure, and forced it through. It'll be interesting to see if that ends up permanent. If macron lasts longer than the new retirement age.
Actually:
June 4th, 2023, 300 Germans set fire to police barricades and attacked Leipzig police officers. The rioters were protesting jail sentences for people who attacked neo-nazis.
Source:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/04/europe/leipzig-germany-lina-e-far-left-protest-intl/index.html
These are protests to breaches by authority against standing political, social and economic infrastructure rather than the infrastructure itself you are referring to; that infrastructure is as in place in France as it is in Germany.
You said "We have the same stuff in Germany without burning shit down..."
The article I replied with references Germans "burning shit down" this month to effect change.
Ah yes, "The Economy", the favorite catch all of politicians.
I don't know about you, but from here it looks like it's going to go to shit whether we burn stuff or not.
I'm not French, btw.
But here in Canada, where the unemployment rate is at an all-time low, I can tell you we're not out of the woods yet. My work is somewhat affected by the state of the economy and this year it's been really slow. No one is investing because of uncertainty and high interest rates.
The economy is about to go to shits, and it's not like we riot nearly enough lol
The real problem is the lack of accountability of politicians. They're the only ones with any power to do anything, and they're just making things worse. They stoke fear in people and sell us out to corporations, and no one cares to do anything about it. That's why people respect the French, they at least TRY to do something about it.
France has astronomically higher taxes that the US does.
"Astronomically".
This is like making fun of a fireman using a bucket of water that's twice as large as your bucket to put out a house fire.
They pay twice as much in taxes. Vs the ludicrous cost of most basic citizen necessities in the United States .
Pay twice as much in taxes, you get affordable/basically free healthcare and adorable/basically free higher education(medical school is 2k a year in France). Affordable, reliable long-distance transportation/physical transportation infrastructure, a living and functional social security, but sure. Careful of those taxes you could pay that would cover all basic human necessities plus all major financial concerns until you croak.
As an example, instead of paying $3,000 in taxes per year, you could pay $6,000 in taxes per year, and you would be free to pursue any education you liked, including medical school, for $1000-$2000 per year instead of paying 30k per year just to learn core classes. Good thing you saved that 3k during tax season.
Lmao what? France gets the good stuff?