[Skybird]

Everybody wants to party, but nobody wants to do the cleaning.

There is a reason why all Western nations are de facto bancrupt.

They should riot against the finance lobby, and banks - fine with me. But striking against pensions not before 62 years? Even more so since the past has proven beyond any doubt that unemployment level amongst the young does not get tackled by having an early pension age? Adding 2 years to their ridiculously low pension age (the lowest in all europe, I think), will mean nothing for youth unemployment.

The French, like we all, live beyond our means. Since we acannot afford all that, that is why our nations have so ridiculously high debts. And that is why now we have a currency war as well. Dollar versus Euro versus Yuan. No surprise there - only surprise is that the dollar accuses the yuan to be kept artifically low - with the dollar having been kept artifically low since the early 70, when Nixon's finance minister in 1971 gets quoted with having told the Europeans: "It [the dollar] is our currency, but it is your problem."

What goes up, must come down. Sooner or later, it all must necessarily collapse. It's a sick design from A to Z, working nice only in the short and maybe medium term - but never the long term.

Youth revolts are adding to the French mess now, I read, and thes ehave little to do with the pensions, but are picking the action up where they left it 2005 and 2006.

Sarkozy however scored another major victory over his stupid and spineless German counterpart, Merkel, this empty hole-in-a-head, giving France what it wanted, while leaving the Germans no realistic fututre option that could ever hold what it promises. But if he has hoped that would distract attention of protesters back at home, he obviously has thought wrong.

I wonder why Merkel takes disagreeing entry positions at international negotiations anymore anyway, since everybody knows by now that in the end she will always be willing to give them up in full - for nothing substantial in return, just empty word shells, and just for the sake of avoiding said negotiations giving a public impression of having failed - as if what she is doing is no failure itself! Maybe she should better sell teddy bears in a toy shop. To her, the shine always seems to mean more than the substance.