our entitled future

[Mav88]

Maybe it's just a Fench thing, but I doubt it. I see it growing here with this administration in power. The left's sense of entitlement knows no sensibility. Young frenchies are protesting raising the retirement age from 60 to 62, even though they will live longer and they are only in their 20's.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100627/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_france_retirement

Despite the protest's colored balloons and jovial atmosphere, Julie Mandelbaum, a 23-year-old geopolitics student from the prestigious Institut de Sciences Politiques, was not in a party mood.

Four years ago, she erected barricades in front of several French universities to stop a contentious work contract that would have made it easier for companies to hire — and fire — young workers. The government then abandoned the proposal.

Mandelbaum says the government should tax high wage-earners and banks instead to ensure there is enough money for pensions when she retires.

"Don't let the government squander away our pension!" she bellowed into her microphone, leading the march for France's main student union UNEF.

A 23 year old geopolitics student, who will most likely produce nothing of value her entire life, is organizing a march to have the governemnet raise taxes on others to protect her pension and right to retire at 60.

Isn't that always their answer, raise taxes on people richer than they. It's never that they should actually produce more.


Progess folks, progress, see you all in econ hell.