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French President Macron Overrides Parliament to Pass Pension Reform

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0:00 what's his name his name is Bruno La man like that one better yeah well they should get Bruno Lamar's because I think he's really good at uh healing everybody what do you think he would say to people he would just say talk to the Moon you know oh that's so true by all the things he never had you know who do you think that he would sit next to if he could pick Oprah and the queen but Oprah a little Winfrey [Music] all right so you guys know who the president of France is Joe take it away close so accurate yeah so Pierre lapoo no his name is is uh is macron oh yeah macaroon it's not it's not Justin Trudeau that's the Canadian president but is it

0:51 Trudeau French it might as well because he's a traitor thank you that was a setup I know so so he has overrided a parliament uh Bill to to pass what they call the retirement age bill right so he has resorted to using special Constitutional Powers there was what they call a pensions overhaul in France that was met with widespread protests and Strikes all across France and prime minister Elizabeth born announced to the assembly that the government would trigger article 49.3 of the French Constitution um and macron resorted to using special Constitutional Powers to plan to raise the retirement age to 64 from 62. yeah for two years yep what's this well

1:42 people are living longer that's scary I bet you France like burned to the ground after that so yeah it's for people with gaming headphones so they don't feel ripped off French people started taking the streets they were burning Furniture in the streets I bet yep um they would burn if you tell a French man to work more dude don't ████ start taking Muay Thai so they could fight you it's like what it is dude they just are burning Furniture that's what they did like imagine imagine the guys that are 62 who just retired they're like yes yeah I almost feel nice yeah so is it a bunch of 61 year olds that are like ████ ████ it's everybody so um so the plans were passed in Francis Senate on two on Thursday morning but had been due for a vote in the National Assembly which is the lower house where its approval was not granted so then

2:35 um prime minister Elizabeth Warren announced the debt to the assembly that the government would trigger article 49.3 which I mentioned before lawmakers opposed to the reforms booed chanted shouted resignation as she spoke and then at one point the session was suspended for two minutes as politicians saying the national anthem too loudly for her to even be heard that's the filibuster right classic and then mccrones Renaissance party argues reform of the pension system is necessary because they're ████ a little bit they projected an annual deficit of 10 billion euros which is 10.73 billion dollars each year between 2022 and 2032 so each year 10.73 billion dollars is being sucked up into the pension fund wow um opinion poll suggests the majority of the public supported industrial action to oppose the changes which includes requiring workers to contribute to the

3:26 system for 43 years to qualify for a full pension strikes have now taken place since the start of the year and intensified and it's getting it's out there like look at this ████ oh my God it's a lot of furniture Santa Monica yeah it's let me see that literally just looks like here whoa oh at night that s███'s on fire but like what did what did they throw like just trash the streets are like packed with all this kind of ████ yeah it's garbage wow it's it's every all kinds of they call it rubbish I guess over there what when I was in uh when I was in Paris they were dealing with um they were doing like a like a massive Refugee um situation yeah and I remember thinking like dude this ████ looks like you know how Skid Row is and it's pretty packed imagine that times five yeah

4:17 exactly like tents were like ████ all over it was crazy no that's it wasn't as dirty but it was a lot of tense that's happening in France too oh damn yeah so so um a lot of politicians right now are trying to say hey we want to vote of no confidence in the in the government which would mean ████ you to to the president um Marine Le Prem you maybe have heard of her before she's run against macron in the past and lost um she's basically saying like hey we we're gonna do this so you know if you don't like what's going on let's go um and there's maybe you're not gonna be a vote to dissolve the National Assembly in whole new elections it's kind of up in the air right now um but there's a lot of unrest in France right now due to this I feel like France's friends

5:07 they protest so much that it makes the protests in France makes makes it seem like it's not that thing they're always going on strike no no no ████ though like every time they're like flights from France are delayed because the airport's on strike or like something's on strike and I'm just like damn they keep fighting dude they just can't come to a conclusion like are you trying to say like French people are kind of soft or what no I think they're lazy people is it something is it something where the I'm just kidding so we're going to wrestling the legislature right the government doesn't have the majority to approve of something and the president goes well ████ it we're doing it anyway that's ████ up and that's kind of what's Happening yeah kind of checking balances of that I wonder why though I'm thinking it's kind of like the US government and warfare very laissez faire we don't pass War resolutions anymore we just ████ go yeah we're going off we're going off

5:57 of November 11th you just do whatever you want because you know um we just did an article about South Korea raising the uh weekly hours right to like 69 hours a week for full time right so then what if like this is a reaction to not having enough people because that's an issue that Europe America South Korea Japan is facing is there's not enough people not enough workers right now we're going to see a huge Boomer population just retire well you're talking about yeah they're gonna retire and there's not enough people down here to pay for the people exactly so that Gap is like what if they're doing this move hoping to like siphon it a little bit slower so now instead of 60 uh what two you got 64.

6:47 maybe they know the math of like oh there's a lot of ████ people at this age so if we just pump it two more years then we don't have all these people retiring that's what the finance minister of France says here he says that the reform is just necessary to ensure a fiscal balance by 2030. and he says the government's made concessions already including decreasing the proposed retirement age from 65 to 64. and he was confident they would get a majority Department what's his name his name is Bruno lemon like that one better yeah well they should get Bruno Lamar's because I think he's really good at uh healing everybody what do you think he would say to people he would just say talk to the Moon you know oh that's so true and he say like you know everyone wishes that they were a billionaire so ████ bad you know how about billionaire so ████ bad

7:37 by all the things he never had you know who do you think that he would sit next to if he could pick [Laughter] I'm starting to remember You Know It uh I I think my accent is ████ though that's pretty good yeah I mean like a lot of people are I mean I'd be pissed if I'm like what the ████ I was about to retire or what does 64 turn into 66. he's gonna keep going yeah well that's what so that's what um a lot of the workers who are likely to retire at 62 are manual workers and they're just like yo I started work at a young age like how the ████ do you expect me to keep going easy for you to attack on two I've

8:27 just clocked in 40. yeah yeah right they're not all social media managers no it's like I'm missing an arm from the ████ iron uh Factory that I've been working at yeah yeah like I just took the chair in the street that was on fire last night my back's thrown out okay that makes yeah but but the the government's also in a in a hole too because they're just like yo there's all these people that's gonna retire now we don't have enough money for everybody what are we gonna do and then they could they can try taxing companies but it's actually the most difficult to tax the the biggest companies because they'll just run they'll just go to other well they don't want the companies to leave yeah like they're like the they they're like a country themselves not saying that it can't be done but it's that's why a lot of the times they ████ with middle class and poor because like you know how like they're going

9:17 um we're gonna check your memo we're gonna do all that ████ is because we don't have lawyers and and can't do anything about it you can't do nothing if Iris comes to us we're just paying you're just paying yeah true but then they go to Amazon or whatever and then they're like oh this is gonna take like 15 years to fight these guys and get our money yeah so it's just tough man I don't I don't even know how they can do it so a representative for the people of who are going through this right they say do you hear the people singing singing the song Stupid pull-ups did he pull out the lyrics this ████ he says it's the music of the people yeah

10:13 it's the most famous it's the national anthem it's what it's the national anthem Joe's in the library reading a bunch of other ████ while we were watching Les Mis yeah holy man yeah I skipped two four six seven [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music]

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