Violence Escalates as France Scrambles to Respond to ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters

Re:Violence Escalates as France Scrambles to Respond to ‘Yel... by Gibbon1 on Saturday December 01, 2018 @05:05PM (#18579264)

> Macron comes off as a privileged president that has no clue about what his citizens are going through.

Macron is a neoliberal, it was obvious things were going to end badly. Yeah raise the gas tax, cut pensions and let the free market solve everything. Doesn't work with public policy.

It was depressing seeing Mélenchon come in third in 2017.

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Re:Violence Escalates as France Scrambles to Respond to ‘Yel... by bengalister on Sunday December 02, 2018 @01:19AM (#18581084)

What is depressing is seeing French people think the situation would be better with Mélenchon who has great admiration for Chavez and Maduro.

France has a huge debt. This guy's policy would worsen the situation very quickly.

France is the 2nd country in the world with the most public expenses after Finland (data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm).

And Melenchon says that liberalism doesn't work, we should just follow the path of communist countries. But France never applied liberal policies and we have all seen the results of communist policies.

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Re:Violence Escalates as France Scrambles to Respond to ‘Yel... by toomuchtodo on Saturday December 01, 2018 @09:06PM (#18580328)

I’m curious how France deals with the populist candidate who rises to power from Macron’s tone deaf policies.

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