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At this point all I can do is to repeat what I already have said until it hits home, but my experience is that it's a very frustration experience to do so, and it takes a long time, and most of the time fails, so I'm not gonna waste my time doing that. You'll just have to continue to live with your pre-concieved idea of how the world looks.
1. That freedom of choice was an argument for keeping the current situation in French pensions.
2. That if you allow people freedom of choice in pensions, poverty and starving old people will ensue.
There has been exactly zero evidence to support this. Instead you are digging down the debate into a quagmire by repeatedly asserting statements that have no contact with reality, and using irrelevant statistics in an effort to polish a complete turd of argumentation.
Then claiming that I don't come with evidence is rather absurd.
It is not debate, it's me trying to explain, and you putting your fingers in your ears and loudly repeating random numbers to yourselves to prop up your myths and avoid challenging your basic assumptions. Or foundational myths, as rg calls them. That was a good post, read it:
http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2007/10/21/65910/511
I think the foundational myths here are:
Hence, US is evil. Hence, US policy is evil. Hence, the US must be a much worse place to live than most other places.
The rest of the sick and screwed up arguments here, together with the general fear of freedom, can probably be extracted from these basic assumptions.
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