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I marched today so that you could retire at 60[ UPDATED] | 43 comments (43 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Cirque d'Hiver to Bastille. (4.00 / 6)

French speakers?

Arrival at Bastille.



Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP on Sun Oct 17th, 2010 at 03:18:12 AM EST
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Re: Cirque d'Hiver to Bastille. (none / 0)
They sound pissed...

By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Oct 17th, 2010 at 03:50:25 AM EST
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Re: Cirque d'Hiver to Bastille. (4.00 / 5)
They are. I'll write more about this tonight but this movement is about more than the age of retirement; it's more about anti-authoritarianism against Sarkozy who would love to be a dictator.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP on Sun Oct 17th, 2010 at 03:59:19 AM EST
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Re: Cirque d'Hiver to Bastille. (4.00 / 8)
RABOT DES NICHES
par le
NABOT DES RICHES?

"Niches" (fiscales) = tax breaks

"Rabot" is a plane (tool), reference to the language the government has put into circulation, according to which they are engaged in "planing down" ie reducing tax breaks.

But the slogan questions whether this "planing down" will be fairly done by the "nabot des riches", the rich people's dwarf ("nabot" = "nain" = dwarf), meaning...

Now who could that mean?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Oct 17th, 2010 at 04:04:13 AM EST
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I marched today so that you could retire at 60[ UPDATED] | 43 comments (43 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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