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Turn on MSNBC and check out the coverage of the reprotests over the retirement age going from 60 to 62 in France....could you imagine if Americans reacted like that when we're told that we might as well forget about ever retiring? Retirement isn't a guaranteed thing here and France is upset that they have to wait two extra years to be lazy and eat and drink all day and pass up daily bathing.....I mean COME ON!
"Many in France consider retiring at 60 a pillar of the country's hard-won social contract – and fear this is just the first step in eroding their often-envied quality of life. Critics say President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to adopt an "American-style capitalist" system. Sarkozy's conservative government says 62 is among the lowest retirement ages in Europe, the French are living much longer and the pension system is losing money." (Dallas News)
Most of our generation will be lucky to retire by the age of 65, if ever. French citizens claim that they will lose years off of their lives because of two extra years of work--bite the god damned bullet!
