What if we finally talk about serious things? Two years of consultation with the unions and a month of inaudible parliamentary debates have transformed the pension reform into petaudière. The plan to introduce a more just and equitable universal points system, in place of the 42 existing regimes, had the appearance of simplicity. It reaches heights of complexity. However, in this maelstrom, the essential question has still not been touched upon: is the vast upheaval in progress funded? No serious expert thinks so.
Whether or not we approve the spirit of the project under discussion, the numbers are stubborn. Before even changing a comma of the current system, a hole of 15 to 20 billion euros is looming by 2025-2030. It is the counterpart of good news: the French are living longer and longer, on average around twenty years after celebrating their sixty-fifth birthday. In hard cash, this
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