There is a nose in this pension business.
Not much dog on the side of the opponents, certainly, nor flair, it will be said, in the Macron camp, but something of the nose - of this famous tirade of the noses, which lends itself to the parody of this tragicomedy of which France is currently the theater - and especially in the pastiche of government variations of tone since 2017. Let's see...
The pension reform, a simple reform, with a slight turn of the screw and a little game of calculator?
“Oh!
No!, it's a bit short young man!
You could say… oh!
God!
…many things in short…”
Act I
Pedantic.
- Farewell to parametric facilities!
Enough!
We need something beautiful, pure,
“systemic”
!
(Emmanuel Macron, 2017).
Considerate.
- My friends,
"I do not propose to shift the retirement age"
(Macron 2019).
Friendly.
- Frankly my friend,
"it would be quite hypocritical to shift the legal age, as long as we haven't solved the problem of unemployment in our country!"
(Immanuel…
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