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Yellow vest movement (view source)
Revision as of 23:16, December 22, 2018
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===Let them eat cake===
===Let them eat cake===
Weeks after Macron threw a bone to minimum wage earners protests and calls for his resignation continued unabated. After generations of government duplicity, people are not fools anymore. What socialism and the [[welfare state]] gives with one hand, it takes back through taxes and [[inflation]] with the other - especially in the [[zero sum]] game of government debt and budget austerity. How out of touch and demeaning liberal elites are, to image people riot and protest for a minimum wage increase so they can remain at the bottom of the Marxist class structure.
Weeks after Macron threw a bone to minimum wage earners protests and calls for his resignation continued unabated. After generations of government duplicity, people are not fools anymore. What socialism and the [[welfare state]] gives with one hand, it takes back through taxes and [[inflation]] with the other - especially in the [[zero sum]] game of government debt and budget austerity. How out of touch and demeaning liberal elites are, to image people riot and protest for a minimum wage increase so thst they can remain at the bottom of the Marxist class structure.
As the movement grew, students joined in support of workers, opposing the hardships [[big government]] imposes on people's everyday lives. A manifesto appeared mirroring President Trump's agenda.<ref>Delingpole, James (December 10, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/10/france-yearns-for-trump-style-revolution/ Delingpole: France’s ‘Yellow Vests’ Issue Trump-Style Manifesto]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 10, 2018.</ref>
As the movement grew, students joined in support of workers, opposing the hardships [[big government]] imposes on people's everyday lives. A manifesto appeared mirroring President Trump's agenda.<ref>Delingpole, James (December 10, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/10/france-yearns-for-trump-style-revolution/ Delingpole: France’s ‘Yellow Vests’ Issue Trump-Style Manifesto]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 10, 2018.</ref>