Did you see the stylish kids in the riot?
We were shovelled up like muck
Then set the night on fire
Wombles bleed truncheons and shields
--Libertines
The western war on youth comes to blows:
France: PM 'set to stand firm'
24 injured, 167 arrested in Paris; Government calls for 'dialogue'
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- The French government looked set on Sunday to resist demands, backed by mass protests by students and trade unions, to withdraw a law that cuts job security for young workers.
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Under the law aimed at cutting youth unemployment, employers will be able to fire workers under 26 without giving a reason at any time during a two-year trial period. Opponents say that will create a generation of disposable workers with no security.
The West has a rapidly ageing population that has resulted in a majoritarian bias towards the elderly (who are also the most likely to vote) and laws and policies that basically skew against the young - a group increasingly dwarfed population-wise by the old....
For example, take OAS or CPP..programs designed to protect the elderly from poverty in old age, originally...which is a good idea naturally. But, since the inception of CPP/OAS, the elderly have increasingly become the most wealthy portion of the population with tax laws skewed towards their comfort. Of any market economy on earth, the over-60 set will own more than two-thirds of the stock market.
In most cases on earth, old age pensions have become a massive transfer of wealth from the young and poor to the old and rich. In France, the anti-youth policies are heightened by the growing (Algerian) arab youth population that results in anti-youth and racist biases.
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I fully expect Canada to follow the French example. And I expect an ageing tv news watching population to be subjected to ever more excited news media over-hyping youth violence even as crime rates drop to 30-year lows in an effort to demonize and increasingly well-behaved youth population.
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