these strikes are an outrage.
If I didn't know that my parents sometimes read my blog, this post would be nothing but a series of the most offensive curses I know.
The country is being brought to a standstill because 500 000 workers refuse to give up their generous pension plan benefits. This is a textbook example of flagrant abuse of power by unions. The majority is against this strike. Everyone thinks that pension plans should be reformed. The government was elected on a platform of reform. But instead of directing their displeasure at the government by blocking the ministries or protesting outside the national assembly, the unions are disrupting the daily lives of the portion of the population that doesn't even get to have special pension benefits. This mentality of entitlement is economically destructive, disruptive and absolute bullshit. What exactly are they trying to gain by pissing us off?
Equally outrageous is the strikes going on at public universities over a bill proposal that would give universities more autonomy in managing their affairs, and allow them to seek minimal funding from private sources in order to boost the quality of education. The level of public universities has been free-falling for a long time now, and lack of funding is a major obstacle to improving the situation. Most of the student unions were included in the consultation process and the drafting of this bill. But any memory of that seems to have conveniently been erased from their minds, and the more radical factions have taken over certain universities in France and are literally blocking students from attending class.
These are the kinds of people who, when they were learning about marxism in high school, retained only the part about "private = evil, public = good". Now whenever there is mention of seeking private funding, they claim that the "man" is going to privatize education and that their future is being decided by the corporate dictatorship. These are also the people who rail against the police state for stifling their freedom of expression, yet they are using violent tactics - like beating up and intimidating people who are trying to go write their exams - to get their point across. Don't they see the irony?
DIMWITS.
The country is being brought to a standstill because 500 000 workers refuse to give up their generous pension plan benefits. This is a textbook example of flagrant abuse of power by unions. The majority is against this strike. Everyone thinks that pension plans should be reformed. The government was elected on a platform of reform. But instead of directing their displeasure at the government by blocking the ministries or protesting outside the national assembly, the unions are disrupting the daily lives of the portion of the population that doesn't even get to have special pension benefits. This mentality of entitlement is economically destructive, disruptive and absolute bullshit. What exactly are they trying to gain by pissing us off?
Equally outrageous is the strikes going on at public universities over a bill proposal that would give universities more autonomy in managing their affairs, and allow them to seek minimal funding from private sources in order to boost the quality of education. The level of public universities has been free-falling for a long time now, and lack of funding is a major obstacle to improving the situation. Most of the student unions were included in the consultation process and the drafting of this bill. But any memory of that seems to have conveniently been erased from their minds, and the more radical factions have taken over certain universities in France and are literally blocking students from attending class.
These are the kinds of people who, when they were learning about marxism in high school, retained only the part about "private = evil, public = good". Now whenever there is mention of seeking private funding, they claim that the "man" is going to privatize education and that their future is being decided by the corporate dictatorship. These are also the people who rail against the police state for stifling their freedom of expression, yet they are using violent tactics - like beating up and intimidating people who are trying to go write their exams - to get their point across. Don't they see the irony?
DIMWITS.
posted by Anne at 11:34 AM
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