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They treat  everyone like they are irrelevant. They do what the hell they want push whatever logic they think justify their actions and stick to it.
Macron is in orbit, and he doesn't care about the TC feedback. He just sat during the whole GJ thing, why would that strike change anything. Seriously, when Macron speaks, he sounds like a UFO, I think he had alternative French classes.
Perhaps we should look to pull this kind of thing in America, if such a moment arrives. >

It already happened under President George W. Bush. The US retiremtent was raised from 65 to 67 with early retirement set to 65. If you where born before I believe 1954 your retirement is still 65 but after that your retirement is 67. Other than a few radio host going nuts at the time no massive protest happened on a national scale. >

Part of that may be because so many Americans don’t have a pension at all. >

I have a pension account through my state government job. Even with that, the lawmakers have gutted it so much that its basically impossible to get fully vested and if you do, what you'll be paid once (if) you retire won't be able to sustain the rising cost of living. Pensions aren't made to deal with rising costs of rent, food, etc. I'm sure you can guess what color my state lawmaker's ties are. >

I used to work for a law department in the state government. The employees were either fresh out of law school and there for a couple years to get good experience or long haulers who’ve been there since the 1990s. There were very, very few in between >

We call it "golden handcuffs" where I work.  We all know we should be earning more, but the promise of a safe retirement is too alluring. 
The young folks all bail after a year or two like you experienced. >

And  the gvt will water down the reform, as planned from the beginning. Take three steps forward  and one step back. >

This gov isn't known for compromising, but for its inability to compromise. >

Sure but as usual, they will back down just a little bit, just so they can say that people are not happy no matter what they do. They treat people like dumb kids and I must admit that they are not entirely wrong on that.