Sunday, January 6, 2019

Caen, France Looks Like A Battlefield. But The Media Is Saying That Saturday's Protests Were Small



WNU Editor: I live in Canada .... very little if any coverage on what is happening in France, and what was covered was with the headline that the protest turnout was small. I have 2 close friends in Paris and a very good friend who lives on the French Riviera. They are telling me that with the holiday season now coming to an end, the protests are back and the middle class who are suffering from government tax and regulatory policies are seething with anger. Bottom line .... with French President Macron's decision to ignore why the middle class is angry, it is a guarantee that these protests and riots are going to continue.

Hat tip Small Dead Animals for the above tweets.

Update:
My friends are telling me that these numbers are far lower than what the pollsters are spinning .... Macron's Approval Rating Shrinks To 25% Despite Concessions To Protesters (Zero Hedge). And as for French President Macron pinning much of the unrest on Russian meddling (and RT has been covering the protests far more extensively than the Western press), in France no one is believing him.

4 comments:

Mike Feldhake said...

Sad to see, but is this a result of years of socialism, high taxes and freebies? France really needs to rethink its position and match the US system more - Yes, I just said that!

Anonymous said...

not so with the media I see...
match our system, right: govt closed down...meanwhile France has by every study the best health care system in the world...and in U.S.?

Anonymous said...

I have relatives in France. It is a shtihole. I have visited there. I am not impressed.

Place like the Saint Denis neighborhood are not safe for a single female tourists and that is going back 30 years ago. the housing stock is cramped. Americans complain if you cannot speak English in America. The French will discriminate against you if you speak French but are no blood relation to them. Doing one sector (medicine) of an economy well and leaving several others to rot is not something tow rite home about. If you have doubler digit unemployment, your economy is rotting.

Anonymous said...

France rotting started decades ago and is not over. Yellow vests ask for less state's spending not more taxes. But Macron is deaf and act like the last leaders. No hope in sight.