Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Macron defends unpopular pension reforms | DW News" video.

  1.  @kingericson490  Like much of Europe, France lives off of US military largesse.
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  2.  @Omni0404  Step your defense budget up.
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  3.  @robb1324  You already did that in 2015. What happened to that?
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  4. They already did that tax-the-rich routine in 2015. Only to scrap it when they lost too many of their best and brightest.
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  5.  @robb1324  I'm willing to bet a lot of them live beyond their means. Never mind the high taxes.
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  6.  @alexandrucioarec6554  Like a true leftist.
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  7. They were thought out with the people of France in mind. Namely to win votes. Sustainability be damned!
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  8.  @Lwena  The same system that just isn't sustainable. And no, taxing the rich is not going to solve the problem unless you don't mind a stunted economy. You mean future workers footing the bill as current pensioners sacrificed family and future for career and lifestyle during their working years. Hence the low birthrates and the need for mass immigration to compensate for the babies that didn't get born to fund their pensions.
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  9. Due to those same old pensioners sacrificing the country's future finances for instant gratification during their working years.
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  10. They tried that in 2015 but scrapped the policy when the best and brightest fled en masse.
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  11. Only for women.
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  12. Nope. And you can tax the rich for only so long.
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  13.  @grantjohnston7148  Not in Canada or the US where leftists run the show.
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  14. <France is the country of human rights.> And now it's becoming its undoing. <They want to be able to enjoy life and not live to work. There’s enough work for everyone if work time is shared equitably, they just want to distribute the work fairly, and that everyone can work, but also live with free time. It’s just logic and common sense. And only the French seem to really think and have a minimum of empathy for others people.> LOL. They sacrificed family and future for instant gratification and now it's coming back to bite them in the butt. Empathy? What empathy? All I see is self-indulgence.
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  15. Coupled with too many people in need and not enough people working and paying taxes.
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  16.  @TheFrenchscot  Well, social democracy is expensive to maintain.
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  17. Nah. Humans themselves are their own worst enemies.
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  18. France did that in 2015 to no avail.
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