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Barbara Heide | all galleries >> MAIN GALLERY >> Archives 2006-2009 >> My PAD galleries and challenges >> PAD >> Diary >> Diary October 2010 > Demonstration in Toulouse
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20-OCT-2010 Barbara Heide

Demonstration in Toulouse

Toulouse




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People feel threatened and show their fear for these new laws, ment to get money out of the poor and the middle class, while rich people get more and more rich. The government doesn't dare to take money from the rich, because otherwise they will put all their money into "safe" swiss bank accounts... While they vote for increasing age of retirement, they have put the retirement age of european deputes down to 50 with a mensual retirement dee of 9000 Euros... We should all be deputes in order to get the right treatment... a "normal family gets about 800 Euros a month... that is NOT enough for living. In Paris the rent of a very small 1 room apartment is about 800 Euros a month... I don't know how this is going to work!

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Margaret Lew24-Oct-2010 06:22
A picture can say 1,000 words and this one has drawn out a lot from us! As you say, so many things are out of order. Where is the hope?
Guest 23-Oct-2010 18:56
Life is difficult everywhere ! Great entry Barbara!
Cindi Smith22-Oct-2010 14:33
Governments don't care about the people...I know ours doesn't. I have to agree that it is hard to find a job in your 50's...I'll attest to that. The government gets paid big bucks while we get poorer and poorer. They are trying to make the people totally dependent on the government so they can have more control. Socialism is running rampant here and I don't like it one bit. No one listens to the people anymore. Our president whom I did not vote for is ruining this country as well. It sickens me.
Mieke WA Minkjan22-Oct-2010 06:14
I understood that if you want a full pension at the moment in France you have to work until your 65. If you retire with 60 you get a part pension. A French friend of mine who is 62 is still working as a teacher at a French school.
It is all about inclusion and exclusion which seems to belong to human nature. The sign the lady in the scootmobile carries says it explicit: Handicap maladie=pauvrete!
It is an excellent journalistic capture BV
Ray :)22-Oct-2010 00:48
Walter - it is said that public sector employee pensions in the UK are good, but to have a pension that big, that "librarian" would probably have to earn the equivalent of $400,000 p.a. and been in the scheme for virtually all his working life!
Walter Otto Koenig21-Oct-2010 23:31
On the other hand one has to consider that pensions for public sector employees is often much too high compared with the private sectors. We have a retired librarian here in San Diego who is making well over $200,000 per year in retirement. While we make millionaires out of retired officials and politicians the average person has to foot the bill. From what I have heard that is partly the situation in France as well.
Ray :)21-Oct-2010 23:01
You have to be real about the costs of retirement in an ageing population, but from what I've heard much of the anger is over how Sarkozy has handled this. At least our government has been straight, even though their fairness has been rightly been brought into question.
And yes, I learnt yesterday that I will retire at 66 and not 65.
Chris21-Oct-2010 20:26
It's certainly getting tricky now - but retiral age in the UK has gone up and folk are living much longer - what to do?
borisalex21-Oct-2010 18:21
I agree with Barbara, job culture has changed to much for the young, leaving people over 55 out of oportunities to find a FULL TIME JOB! They big ly in contrary is that there no more this kind of jobs offered by the capitalismn (Made in USA by Wall Street) which is left, after the failing of socialismn! And the big tragedy is that the young generation is hurting on that non existing full time jobs too! Just 400 € everywhere! No security for if they get older, thats why they get angry too! It´s such a shame! It just needs another revolution!!!
Boris
Barbara Heide21-Oct-2010 14:07
@Maaike, I do agrre with you, but the problem is, they don't employ people in their 50ties... less than 40% have a job in their 50ties... so this whole thing is a big joke...
and when people are fit, why can't they work as long as they wan't?...
so many things are out of order and poverty is difficult to bare...
Guest 21-Oct-2010 13:51
It is a sad story ....
Maaike Huizer21-Oct-2010 12:52

A perfect documentary shot.
I agree with you about the unfair contrasts between the rich and the poor. And I agree Sarcozy and his cabinet have made an awful lot of infair choices and probably will go on with that!!! And I understand the fear. I hope the people will be heard. It is such a sad sad situation.
But I have to say: is increasing the age of retirement in France to 62 such a bad decision? The standard age of retirement in the Netherlands now is 65, as in Germany and Belgium. Our government wants to increase it to 66 (in 2020).
LynnH21-Oct-2010 12:02
I've seen the protests on the TV news. It is hard times for so many. I feel sad for the old and the poor. Nice commentary photo!
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