The corpo sock-puppet media claim French wage earners are mad over the latest hikes in the price of fuel.
Something in the order of a 23% tax increases—announced by government (and now retracted) is purely to fund Paris Accord commitments.
In fact, just over a year ago Macron, speaking at the Sorbonne declared, “We need a tax on carbon at the borders of Europe. This is indispensable.”
Not so fast Emmanuel baby. Abiding Paris is a choice.
Protestors in Paris told the Guardian they were marching as living costs have risen, unemployment is growing amongst the young, and the government is doing little to help the poorest in society.
What with the Paris Accord not being a legal agreement and all. Compliance by any jurisdiction, with UN IPCC diktat is voluntary.
The government has stated the tax will go entirely toward fighting climate change.
Already overtaxed workers are not to expect improved health-care, roads, or better policing.
In the speech, Macron boldly embraced his inner-Europhile, blaming lack of progress on the Euroscepticism of many leaders. After which, the French president went standard-issue globalist banker embracing his outer-socialism: tax; tax; tax; foreign-aid; new war machine.
So it’s not difficult to see the protests going on for some twenty-odd days, and more recently spreading out across France and to Belgium.
Quoted in the NYT’s at the start of protests, one man said, “The taxes are rising on everything. They put taxes on top of taxes.”
Now heading into its third week, Saturday’s demonstrations saw Paris shut down.
Paris riot police tear gas citizens
Police use tear gas on hundreds of French citizens in Paris.
Police stormed protestors in heavy riot gear and tossed plenty of tear gas.
These wide-spread yellow-vest protesters are venting outrage at President Macron. But it is also more than that, much more.
Citizens are fed-up with bureaucracy, and with the bureaucracy and with government tentacles reaching into and feeding off of their labors.
The hurt is broad and deep across the country, working-class people are tired of the struggles against their own government.
You can’t be faulted, after watching days of major protests, anything but letting up, spreading, for seeing events being closer to the beginning than the end.
“It is not the tax on gas, it’s everything. The injustice is greater and greater,” he said.
How to beautifully demonstrate the hunger of a bureaucratic machine to organize everything?
I watched a great YT video today (here’s the link). In the video I learned French law requires every driver to have one Hi-Viz safety-vest in their car; and preferably one for each passenger, too. People standing on a motorway shoulder (should their car break-down) and to comply with French roadside safety law, must wear the yellow-vest.
Subsequently, not only did globalists effectively put hundreds of thousands (millions?) of yellow–vests within easy reach, they’ve seriously pissed off a lot of French citizens. It’s on now; a bunch of regular family people want their country back. Oh, how sweet the injustice of irony!